the most important bike in worlds history

[John in Leeds]

1936 Harley EL. Nothing else is even close.

 

This one?

 

[Guest britbiker]

The bike that made me hold my breath when I first saw it was, and still is, the Guzzi 750 S3 in black with those diagonal red stripes down the tank leading to the rocker boxes, and those shark-gill slashes in the tailpipes. Pure sex. Yes, I know that the purists prefer the earlier V7 sport with gear-driven timing, but there's no accounting for taste. It was memories of that S3 that made me buy a LeMans years later - two of them, in fact - and it was memories of those two that made me buy the V11 I've got now. But you should never meet your heroes, they say: I got to ride an S3 a few years back and I thought it was slow and top-heavy. Still like the looks, though, and if one came along now I'm not sure I'd say no, top heavy or not...

[moscowphil]

Wimps bikes the lot of them. Now this is what I call a bike ........

A sawn off mosquito bomber engine I believe.