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Classic motorcycle exhibition in Hania |
In the course of the average day, I should think I say to myself ‘Hmm, I’d rather like one of those’ of about, ooh, 20 motorcycles. My tastes are nothing if not fickle – everything tends to be triggered by something right in front of me. 
So far today, I’ve decided I would love an Excelsior Manxman (having been sorting out the bits and pieces about Dave Lee’s beautiful example – see page 58), can think of nothing better than a veteran Triumph (a conversation about the epic rides of the Pioneer ‘end-to-end’ men) and that an X7 Suzuki is the thing I really, really need...because one turned up at our building today, ready for a test in our sister title Classic Motorcycle Mechanics.
Other recent thoughts of two wheeled fancy have involved a Durkopp Diana scooter (someone tentatively suggested a bit of a deal involving one of my machines and got me thinking how my grandparents used to have one of those in the 1950s...).
Indeed, such is my notoriously twitchy taste, that when a chap turned up at the office recently on a 1980s Rotary Classic Norton and said he’d spoken to one of the blokes here who’d mentioned, ‘If you ever want to sell it, I may be interested...’ somebody called me (I was out of the office) assuming it had been me...it wasn’t, though now with the seed sown, it started me thinking all again...
It is, though, something within our nature as motorcyclists to always be thinking of the ‘next one’ – or at least the potential next one. In reality, I’m absolutely thrilled with my modest stable and it’s been made especially sweet by riding in the Banbury and at the Festival of 1000 Bikes on my Rex-Acme (there’s a bit more about the Rex on our website, www.classicmotorcycle.co.uk), which performed splendidly.
It also helped me make a friend – German Rex-Acme enthusiast Gunter Weinhold, who searched me out at the Festival, having seen the Rex-Acme listed in the event programme. Gunter, who has a Rex-Acme, came and found me – and was wearing a Rex-Acme T-shirt. We spent quite a while chatting over the weekend (mainly, but not exclusively, about Rex-Acmes) and it just reiterated to me that although my tastes are without doubt fickle, the Rex-Acme is a definite ‘keeper.’
Source: http://www.classicmotorcycle.co.uk/news/choices-choices/
