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Actually though, I remember it as
"Prince of Darkness".
But yet they managed to make something like this, which was pretty damn fast for its displacement, and made a great platform to chop & rake.
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I grew-up in a neighborhood and city that was strongly Harley & Indian, but also had a substantial contingent of British bikes, particularly Triumphs & Royal Enfields along with the occasional Norton. Bonnies & Sporties were the preferred starter street-bikes for young teen-age guys due to their being light, small, and often less expensive and less in demand due to their being difficult to ride two-up (unless you were young & thin with a thin g/f!).
Not long after Easy Rider came out, my best kid buddy got a 650 Bonnie before we were old enough to have driver's licenses! We had a totally kick-ass summer trying to keep it running and taking late night rides, while avoiding the powers-that-be on the dark & deserted city side-streets. Running loose late at night, on streets we shouldn't be on, flaunting our 15 y.o. heightened early-teens reflexes and senses, was a coming-of-age experience I'll never forget! It was a glorious summer!
Unfortunately for my friend, he was far more renegade at this than I, and consequently he got in a lot of trouble with that bike!
As the years and decades rolled-on, British & Indian bikes became less prevalent, Rice flooded the streets, and as a reaction to the Rice the Harley guys became more hard-core Harley. As the Jap-Harley divisions took place, my guys were the Harley guys, even though I drifted in & out with them as my life went in other directions. By the late 80's my old guys were "Harley only". They never rode with any Jap stuff. But British bikes were always welcome, especially those Bonnies so many of us cut our teeth on.
