>Hey!! Anybody out there ever heard of a Sunbeam S7 Motorcycle?
About 10 years ago my roommate took me to Oakland, CA to meet a guy that
had a HUGE motorcycle collection and was reatoring bikes. He had a shop
with 3 or 4 guys full time working for him. He had a few old commerical
building and a victorian type house with motorcycles in every bedroom on
the second floor. There were well over 100 bikes and he had 2 S-7 Sunbeams.
I think there were prices on them all, but he really didn't want to sell
any. The S-7's were 30,000 each. Now don't you wish our Tigers had that
kind or resale value? This guy wound up getting busted for something,
either funny money or drugs or real estate fraud, I can't remember, and I
think all the stuff got sold at auction. But they were a beautiful
motorcycle, classic lines. The motor crankcase was kind of enclosed like a
BMW in front.
>From the Ultimate Motorcycle Book by Hugo Wilson:
The Sunbeam trademark was first affixed to bicycles at the end of the
nineteenth century. From 1913, the company also built motorcycles. Sunbeams
reputation for fine quality and workmanship diminished when the firm was
sold in the late 1920's. In 1939, it was sold again to the BSA group, who
attached the Sunbeam name to unusual shaft-drive twins.
Greg
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1971 - Harley Davidson FX Superglide
1965 - Tiger Sunbeam B9472850
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