<jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Even though it burns the third of my four posts today, I have to agree. The PX-10 was a great bike for the same reason the MG-TC and Triumph TR-3 were great sports cars. Sure the latter two were tempermental and undependable by today's standards. Sure, a Ferrari or Maserati or even a Jaguar XK-120 would outperform them by a wide margin.
The difference being in this instance that a humble PX-10 would empirically do essentially anything as well as a cost-no-object exotic racing bike costing two or three times as much. Cannot say the same for a TC or Trumpet... A closer timeline automotive analogy might be the E-Type vs. the Ferrari or Maserati, the E-Type offering essentially Ferrari or Maserati performance at a fraction of the cost.
Kurt Sperry
Bellingham WA