I’m not knocking them chaps! It’s just my personal taste, that’s all.
Probably influenced by the fact some mates used to race ‘original’ CCMs 608cc 4 valve monsters when I were a lad. Those things had so much grunt they only had 3 speed gearboxes. The things would wheelie away, yanking on your arms like a drag bike whilst the motor is going BOP... BOP... BOP... surreal...
IF you could kickstart it.
They looked liked the one in the t’internet pic below, but for full effect, add the grey dampness of the north of England in winter... the smell of coal slag heaps intertwined with Castrol R... and a Joy Division soundtrack... them were t’ days...