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Originally posted by BlueSkyJaunte
God, every time I see one of those Broughs, or a Vincent, or '46 Chief, or Crocker, I wonder what the hell is wrong with the world today. Those bikes were (are) beautiful yet eminently functional--functional to the point of being "daily drivers" in their day, yet so pretty you want to have at them with a polishing cloth just for the hell of it. Now everything is plastic-covered, or functional to the point of looking like it was welded together by a deranged 8-year-old, or "retro" in all the wrong directions.
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Hand formed and polished chrome is expensive. Plastic is cheap.
Does that answer your question?