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¡BROUGH SUPERIOR LAWRENCE NEFUD!

A pesar de haber estado en funcionamiento inicialmente durante menos de dos décadas, desde 1908 hasta 1926, Brough Superior sigue siendo uno de los fabricantes de motocicletas británicos más legendarios de todos los tiempos.

En la última década, se revivió Brough, momento en el que el diseñador de motos Thierry Henriette recibió la tarea de escribir una versión modernizada del icónico modelo SS100 de la legendaria marca. Apodada "Nefud", la motocicleta toma su nombre del desierto de An Nafud, una región del norte de la península arábiga explorada sobre dos ruedas por TE Lawrence.

Para empezar, las ruedas se reemplazaron por rines de magnesio más resistente, que están calzados con aros Michelin Anakee Wild que conservan las dimensiones estándar de la motocicleta de 19" y 17". El motor de 88 grados, 997 cc y 102 CV. Es una característica clave de Brough; el motor sobresale bastante por debajo de la motocicleta.

Envuelto en una librea degradada de color ocre que recuerda a las dunas rojas del homónimo del desierto de la motocicleta. Los precios y una hoja de especificaciones completa para el Brough Superior Nefud Scrambler aún no se han revelado, aunque anticipamos que el nuevo modelo tendrá un precio similar al Lawrence Special Edition de 65.000 €

Fuente: hiconsumption.com

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Though he has been described as a shy man I never saw any sign of it. He went wherever he wanted to , whether into a workmen’s house to ask whether he might share the family dinner instead of going to a restaurant, or into a king’s palace to give the monarch a piece of his mind. He was a very strange fellow, a born actor and up to all sorts of tricks…[and] he still the grinning laugh and artless speech of a schoolboy; and powerful and capable as his mind was, I am not sure it ever reached full maturity.

- George Bernard Shaw, TE Lawrence By His Friends (1954)

George Bernard Shaw was, for T.E.Lawrence, something of a father figure, with Shaw having to explain, on more than one occasion, that Lawrence was not his son, even though the younger man had adopted the name Shaw when serving in the RAF.

Of course both men were writers (Shaw was a great champion of Lawrence’s work), although Shaw, unlike Lawrence, was no adventurer or soldier, but I do get the impression that the playwright lived Lawrence’s military successes vicariously.

Lawrence often visited Shaw and his wife, and wrote dozens of letters to them both over the years, with Shaw using Lawrence as an inspiration for his character Private Meek in his play, Too True To B Good.

And not unlike many a wealthy and doting father Shaw even bought Lawrence a new Brough Superior motorcycle, costing around £185 in the 1930s, which is about £12,000 in today’s values.

In February 1935, Lawrence was discharged from the RAF and returned to his simple cottage at Clouds Hill, Dorset. On May 13, he was critically injured while driving his Brough motorcycle through the Dorset countryside. He had swerved to avoid two boys on bicycles. On May 19, he died at the hospital of his former RAF camp. Britain mourned his passing. It’s not quite clear if people mourned the legend or the man.