A Few Motorcycles Adequate to the Task !

Randy Mamola's Boxer Cup spec racer.  Most comfortable of all these bikes and excellent brakes.

 
One of two Mondial's registered in tthe US.  Aprila design, Honda RC51 race engine.

Rob gives it a test drive.
 

MV Agusta Tamburini F4 Series Oro.  One of 300 - 59 in the US.  Faster than a speeding bullet.
Carbon fiber body work, magnesium swingarm/frame sideplates/lower triple clamp, chrome-molly trellis upper frame.
Gold anodized this, titanium-nitrided that, machined billet aluminum most everything else.
 

Vincent Black Lightning.  At one time, holder of the New Zealand land speed record.  One of maybe 10.

Rob combines his two passions - tanning and bike riding.
Or could this have been......
(On Sept. 13, 1948, Rollie Free lifted from Harley Davidson the US national motorcycle speed record by riding the first Vincent HRD Black Lightning racing motorcycle to a speed of 150.313 m.p.h.
   When Rollie's leathers tore from early runs at 147 mph, he discarded them and made a final, heroic/crazy attempt without jacket, pants, gloves, boots or helmet. Aboard the motorcycle owned by the California
sportsman, John Edgar, this final run resulted in the most famous photograph in motorcycling, the "bathing suit bike" shot taken from a speeding car on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. Rollie lay flat out on the
motorcycle wearing only a speedo bathing suit, shower cap and a pair of borrowed sneakers.)

Ducati Mike Hailwood MH900 evoluzionei.  Relatively common at #97 of  2000 (lol), but very beautiful.

850cc V8 Morbidelli.  One of  4.  One of 2 in this body style (the other is in the Barber Museum).  The only one that runs.
 

Giancarlo Morbidelli decided he wanted to build a nice motorcycle.
So he got Ferrari to build the engine (32 valve fuel injected) and  Pininfarina to do the styling. 

 
Ride Anyone?