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How many riders are there who remember this stuff?

<p>Ducati has the Paul Smart replica, Triumph has a &quot;scrambler&quot;, Harley redoes the Glide concept. </p><p>Its very cool stuff, if you were riding in the 60's.&nbsp; I have to wonder how old you have to be to know that these things are about.&nbsp; We're talking 40 plus years, here, and I'm being polite.</p><p>How many new or reasonably new riders ever heard the word &quot;scrambler&quot;?&nbsp; This is a great concept.&nbsp; It's a bike that doesn't work that great on the road, because the tires and some other bits of the bike are designed to occasionally also go off road.&nbsp; However, the bike also isn't that great off the road, with less than knobbies.</p><p>The Paul Smart bike is a very cool thing to have in the garage if you knew who Paul Smart was, and if it meant anything to you.&nbsp; I do have to concede that, since I think only 500 are coming into the US of A, maybe it will be a cool collectible.</p><p>All Harleys hark back to 1936 in some fairly evident way, so the Harley maybe makes more sense than the others.</p><p>Despite wondering who it is that recognizes this stuff, I have to admit that it would be fun to have in the garage for those who do know what it is.&nbsp; A scrambler is a good fool around Saturday morning ride, if you aren't very critical.&nbsp; The Paul Smart and the Harley would definitely brighten the conversation at the local drink beer and look at bikes spot.</p><p>Of course, my favorite retro bike would be an update of those good old hop on and go anywhere, even to the store, bikes of the mid sixties.&nbsp; I guess what bike to update would differ for almost everybody.</p><p>It seems to me that the real job of the retro bikes is to play to the memories that work with the fact that riding a motorcycle feels pretty much the same at any age.&nbsp; On the other hand, the coolest thing about the new bikes is how incredibly much better they are than the old bikes.&nbsp; The retro bikes do work somewhat better than the bikes they emulate, particularly because so much has happened with suspension and brakes in the last 40 years.</p><p /> 10 application/xml false Ducati Glide Harley Paul Smart retro bike scrambler Triumph Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; Media Center PC 2.8) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 mpadway false true false false true 201650 false false true false false false true 106832 blog blogsite/MichaelPadway/web