Another vote for a single carb Triumph here if you really want a proper Brit bike.
I do wonder about what you can buy though, they all seem to have been over chromed, painted the sort of colours that never existed outside a hippys head and generally messed about with to become the super Bonneville Triumph never really made. I've seen terrible things done to electrics and engine innards by guys who's passion is chrome.
On this score, how about the technology and basic shape without having to fight collectors and polishers for bit:
Airhead BMW: Boring choice but works.
Moto Guzzi's: Like the Cagiva but older 
Enfields: The real technology but bits still in production.
Hinckley Bonneville: The bike Triumph would have made in the 80's if hadn't gone bust, just made in the 00's.
Kawasaki W650: The better/rarer version of the above.
1980's Japanese, XBR's etc: Classic style still occasionally at rat bike prices.
Maybe a compromise on the feel of the thing, but easier to live with?
Andy
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