Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/09/25

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Subject: [Leica] Leica prices
From: george.imagist at icloud.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 08:07:02 -0500
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On Sep 25, 2014, at 7:57 AM, Douglas Barry wrote:

> Ahh, Matchless! I had an old AJS 350 single which was basically the same 
> bike with a different badge. Got it running properly and sold it after a 
> week. Pity I didn't keep it.
> 
> Anyway, I was flicking through the How To Spend It supplement that comes 
> with the Financial Times and, in addition to a great puff piece for the 
> Leica T(oy) ending the fulsome "but a snapshot of the extraordinary care 
> and talent that have gone into this amazing product", I saw an ad for 
> Matchless clothing featuring a breathlessly pouting, leather clad, and 
> artfully tousled Kate Moss posing in the dust beside a pristine Matchless, 
> and a matching artfully tousled toy boy. Sadly, the coolness quotient 
> shrinks to the minimum when one notices a sidecar is attached to the 
> Matchless....
> 
> However, I see a new model Matchless motorcycle is being launched in 
> November, but fear it will just another ill handling American tractor 
> designed for straight lines.

I always lusted after one of those big singles.

Way too "big" for my taste; and love for crooked roads;
<http://www.motorcyclenews.com/mcn/news/newsresults/new-bikes/2014/september/matchless-is-back/>

500cc, 650cc and 750cc always seemed way big enough

Regards,
George Lottermoser 

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