Touring Europe on a motorcycle in 1953

[flthead]

http://www.go-faster.com/SS100.html good pics an story on touring europe in '53

[c.o.]

Those photos were amazing!! Thanks for posting the article.

[petri]

What a wonderful collection of photos and documentation from a slower and simpler time. Thank you for sharing this album.

Howard

[LouieMCman]

Boy, wouldn't it be grand to retrace the trip and try and get the same pictures?

[pisten-bully]

Excellent, thanks for passing that along! If you scroll down past the photos and see the 1951 Triumph brochure they make a simple claim: "The Best Motorcycle in the World". You'd never get away with making a statement like that nowadays!

[AFJ]

Boy, wouldn't it be grand to retrace the trip and try and get the same pictures?

Interestingly, The Brough Superior Club in Britain regularly organizes that sort of rally. The 2011 Scottish Rally lasted two weeks and retraced a route done by a 1924 Brough Superior SS80 in 1928 by a Mr. F.A. Harvey and written up in the British weekly magazine "The Motor Cycle" in 1928 and again in 1931. 17 Brough Superior motorcycles and 9 other bikes went on the run which covered a distance from just north of London to the northern coast of Scotland with much of the rally in the Western Scottish highlands, as far as the Isle of Skye.
Many of the motorcycles were ridden two-up over the narrow, winding highland roads, which included the steep winding Pass of Applecross, said to be George Brough's favourite mountain road and the location where his ashes were scattered after his death in 1970.

The locations of the photographs taken in 1928 were visited and pictures with a Brough in the same location and angle of view were taken on the 2011 Rally.

AFJ