We all do it, think about the what if I had the dosh? What would the hanger look like?

So having been thinking about it for ages I thought I’d come up with my biker’s dozen, the top twelve bikes I’d be out looking for once when those six numbers came up.

Ok so number two on the hit parade list is probably going to be a contentious choice but I like Goldwings – naked and customised.

I’ve had one for about twenty years, 1100 with high bars, and to be honest it’s been my favourite bike. They have an image as podgy soft cruisers, but for their day they had a fair bit of grunt and the low slung weight means they’re more manoeuvrable than you might expect so you can often surprise people.

Fun to ride, comfortable, reliable as shit and a bit of a Q-bike for having some fun. What’s not to like?

And one when that dosh comes through day it’s going to get the full 50’s style bobber treatment…

We all do it, think about the what if I had the dosh? What would the hanger look like?

So having been thinking about it for ages I thought I’d come up with my biker’s dozen, the top twelve bikes I’d be out looking for once when those six numbers came up.

Triumph X75 Hurricane

First up on my list has to be what I think is simply one of the most beautiful production bikes ever made, Craig Vetter’s X-75 Hurricane.

I honestly don’t think I’d care what it is like to ride; the engine could be a bag of nails, it could wallow all over the road, (I understand it isn’t and it doesn’t) it just wouldn’t matter.

Orange and yellow paint scheme? Normally no, what were you thinking? But here, it’s just… right.

It is just something I have drooled over ever since the first picture I ever saw.

It’s a thing of beauty.

The Mona Lisa on two wheels.