Billy Crystal used to do this bit on Saturday Night Live called Fernando’s Hideaway in which he would intone in an over the top Latin accent that it is better to look mah-velous than to feel mah-velous. Fernando may not have been the best celebrity interviewer, but he did know a thing or two about the importance of presentation.
Many a motorcycle maker over the decades has likewise understood that a badge with some bling could be the only thing separating them from immortality and historical irrelevance. That’s why they put almost as much effort into their logo’s creation as they did in the machines that carried them.
Like baseball, motorcycle manufacture is tradition born in the 19th Century and carried through into our current age. And over the course of all those decades there have been hundreds if not thousands of discrete makes and models, many with intriguing badges. Out of all of those, which one do you think looks the most mah-velous?
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