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I bumped into an old friend of mine on my trip back home (in a pub, fancy that!!). We haven't see each other since we were 11 or 12 years old, but our mothers are very good friends. My buddy Dean went over to India in his teens and travelled to China, US etc all his life. He spent years in India and got into old British bikes in a big way. I always rememebr his father built choppers in their garage when we were kids. serious choppers. Triumph motors, hard tails, REAL choppers, not these Orange County/Jesse James shit machines.
Anyway, it turns out Dean and his dad now run a motorcycle restoration and sales business out on a farm about 20 miles from my home town, so I took a ride out there with my parents and little brother to have a poke around and check out the bikes.
HOLY SHIT!!!! It is an alladin's cave of Brough superiors, Triumphs, Nortons, Ariels etc. You name it, they have it. Their parts area is freaking HUGE. They have copy parts made in india that you cannot tell from the originals (tanks etc). they are hand-hammered from sheet and look beautiful. Here's a couple of pics of what they have right now.