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Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: MX125B on September 01, 2008, 06:53:24 pm
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Don't know if this has been up already, but isn't that the sweetest ride ever?
Click onto link http://www.metisse-motorcycles.com/stevemcqueen.htm
( hope link works) I'm new at this
Cheers
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what a beauty!! wally
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Hi MX125B,
Looks good.
But a limited edition of 300, at the premium price of £12,000, they gotta be kidding. That will take Rickman about 20 years to sell that many.
A limited edition should be just that, maybe 10 or 12. 300 sounds like something Channel Nine would push during the cricket coverage. I wish them luck, but if they sell more than 10 I would be really surprised.
But if it was the original………?????
VMX42
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The funny thing is that McQueen only rode Metisses for a very short time. He rode a Triumph Metisse in '66 but mainly rode stock framed Triumph sleds in desert and the ISDE before moving over to 2 stroke Huskys after meeting Malcolm Smith in the late sixties.
(http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-8/1062154/metissestevemcqueen.jpg)
I've gotta agree with VMX42 over the "limited edition" of 300! The total Metisse kit market world wide is about 50 bikes per year so you'd be waiting a long time for #300 Steve McQueen Special to come along. This is a sadly misguided attempt by the poms to cash in on the American and Japanese love of the "limited edition" and McQueens macho man image. I love Rickman Metisses but $26000 au is a shitload of money. I could build two for that and have enough left over for a trip to the Bahamas and a bottle of Grange Hermitage.
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Yeah, some good observations guys, good photo of McQueen , how's his riding position, very supercross style , and no helmet! Crikey,