You already have a SG! Go with it and be happy you get to ride your grandads bike. Keep the side car as well.
I only have one option, and that's the bike I have now. I am considering a second bike, which will be either a Kaw or Suzuki DP 650. Plenty of the Kaws around around on the cheap.

 

I do believe I'd keep Gramps' SG (less the sidecar). You can always pick up a basket case/classic down the road.

My $.02

-Dusty

 

Pick whatever fills a need for ya....

I'm going to get a fully dressed UC for long weekend touring and cross country trips. I'll slam my Heritage and set it up as a bar hopper and around town cruiser.

 

I would keep your Grandad's bike. If you sell it there will come a day when you wish you had not. Passing it down to the next generation in your family would be really cool.

 

Man, keep the SG. That's the main thing, as it belonged to your Grandad. Then, whatever else you want, get it.

 

I sold my modded RG and might get a XR1200X or another naked sportbike.

 

Time to build a bar hopper,a big motored sleeper bagger,the possibilities are endless.Have fun.

 

If I had my dad's bikes I would leave them the way he left them. Enjoy them, pass them on to my kids. Hope they preserve the bikes and this tradition.

Some things when sold or change can never be had again.

Enjoy your Gpa's bike with the side car the way he did. You have your own bike. Money does not seem to be a problem for you to buy an antique bike.

One can buy more bikes then Jay Leno, but once their Gpa's bike is gone, it will be gone for good.

Around 1979 Gene Baron told my dad and I of a kid that wanted to trade in his Gpa's bike. 1947 45 all original, paint looked great. The kid wanted $1,700. Gene said he can't give pay what he would sell the bike for himself to the kid.

Gene told the kid the bike has a lot of miles left in it better to use it until he could afford to buy a new bike. Once his Gpa's bike is gone he'll never get that opportunity back.

Short time later the kid came back to buy his new bike. He found someone to give him $1700 for his Gpa's bike.

Don't know if this kid is alive today or still riding. If he ever regreted selling his Gpa's bike. I pretty sure if he had a son I'm sure the odds are good that his son wished he had kept the bike in the family.

Who wouldn't want to be riding their Great Grandpa's Harley?

 

Firstly, sorry for your loss. If my grandad had left me an antique Harley, well that would be a good dream, don't you think? Secondly, you guys are on the right track; i don't think you can go wrong -keep it or sell and buy another. I personally would like a knucklehead that i could actually ride; it was the original performance king. I like the idea of modern stuff, like your grandad said; there's a reason. So, you could take out the antique motor for safekeeping, and just ride the hell out of a new S&S replica motor, for example. Or be like me and just enjoy the comfortable ride of the touring model. How can you go wrong?