You don't see these everyday...

[codyshop]

Pulled into the shop today.  1953
 

[HogMike]

Missed my chance to own one, guy in our club wanted to trade me for my '41 Indian 4.....
Now, I don't have either one!

[crash1292]

my buddy owns one just like that....your not around Milwaukee, are ya?

[Bigs]

When I was stationed in England in 1962 I could have bought a Black Shadow for a little over $200. I bought a English Ford Consul instead. I did have a Sunbeam with a side car and it seemed I was always in a rain suit.
   Bigs

[fxrl]

it is an impresive motor cycle, the motor is incredible, for its time, not much in the british world is still around

[biggzed]

Local guy or was he actually on a road trip on that? That would be really cool if he was on an interstate trip. I like those bikes.

Zach

[codyshop]

Local guy.  His collection would humble most museums, and I get to work on them.   

[N-gin]

Neato!!

[Jaycee1964]

Egli vincent..  Very nice ride.  check out the rear suspension eh?
Very advanced bike for the day

[02roadcling]

I talked with a guy who had one at the Oyster Run and he told me it was insured for $70,000.

   cling

[tomcat64]

WOW.... that is very cool!! .. i love old iron,, of any make!!

[Deye76]

That Vincent would give a Kaw 900 a run for it's money. 

[garyajaz]

nice ride.
i still kick self for selling my old rapide.
worth about 10 times as much now.
also saw my old road racer t.z.750 sold on e-bay.
he snail mailed me about it.
i sold it to him about 30 years ago for 4 grand.  running.
he just sold it for 35,000.  not a bad profit.

[bubtrauma]

One Year off but still a COOL song enjoy. Originaly done by Richard Thompson from Merry Old England.

Reckless Kelly "1952 Vincent Black Lightning" LIVE!

Bub

[Ozbernie]

Egli vincent..  Very nice ride.  check out the rear suspension eh?
Very advanced bike for the day

Sorry it's not an Egli Vincent, it's what appears to be a factory spec series C Black Shadow. Super bike of the 50s  and 60s.
http://www.vincelewis.net/vincent.html

[codyshop]

One Year off but still a COOL song enjoy. Originaly done by Richard Thompson from Merry Old England.

Reckless Kelly "1952 Vincent Black Lightning" LIVE!

Bub

I got to see him live when I went to a party with the Aintree MC about fifteen years ago in Surry.  If Thompson had a better agent, nobody would have ever heard of Eric Clapton.   HH 

[speedzter]

A quote about Phil Irving, the designer of the 998 Vincent engine, I wish I had known he lived in my town when he was still alive ! :

" Philip Irving devoted his life to his passion for motorcycles and motor racing and at age 89, weeks before his death in 1992, he was still tinkering with, and tuning, Harley Davidson motorcycles at 'Midwest Harley' in Ballarat, Australia. "

[Scotty]

One Year off but still a COOL song enjoy. Originaly done by Richard Thompson from Merry Old England.

Reckless Kelly "1952 Vincent Black Lightning" LIVE!

Bub

I got to see him live when I went to a party with the Aintree MC about fifteen years ago in Surry.  If Thompson had a better agent, nobody would have ever heard of Eric Clapton.   HH

Wow that's a big call since Eric Clapton was in the Yardbirds and they had a recording contract with EMI in 1964 when Thompson was only 15 and still at school.

And this quote from Thompson sums it up for me

When I started playing Fenders in 1968, it was unfashionable because everyone in England was playing Gibsons and trying to get a big, fat sound like Eric Clapton had in Cream. I just wanted a little more bite.

[codyshop]

One Year off but still a COOL song enjoy. Originaly done by Richard Thompson from Merry Old England.

Reckless Kelly "1952 Vincent Black Lightning" LIVE!

Bub

I got to see him live when I went to a party with the Aintree MC about fifteen years ago in Surry.  If Thompson had a better agent, nobody would have ever heard of Eric Clapton.   HH

Wow that's a big call since Eric Clapton was in the Yardbirds and they had a recording contract with EMI in 1964 when Thompson was only 15 and still at school.

And this quote from Thompson sums it up for me

When I started playing Fenders in 1968, it was unfashionable because everyone in England was playing Gibsons and trying to get a big, fat sound like Eric Clapton had in Cream. I just wanted a little more bite.

A mix of poetic license and sarcasm lightens things up...    

[Scotty]

One Year off but still a COOL song enjoy. Originaly done by Richard Thompson from Merry Old England.

Reckless Kelly "1952 Vincent Black Lightning" LIVE!

Bub

I got to see him live when I went to a party with the Aintree MC about fifteen years ago in Surry.  If Thompson had a better agent, nobody would have ever heard of Eric Clapton.   HH

Wow that's a big call since Eric Clapton was in the Yardbirds and they had a recording contract with EMI in 1964 when Thompson was only 15 and still at school.

And this quote from Thompson sums it up for me

When I started playing Fenders in 1968, it was unfashionable because everyone in England was playing Gibsons and trying to get a big, fat sound like Eric Clapton had in Cream. I just wanted a little more bite.

A mix of poetic license and sarcasm lightens things up...   

LOL .............. still a damn good guitar player though 

[HogBag]

it is an impresive motor cycle, the motor is incredible, for its time, not much in the british world is still around

The Irving Vincent is still running strong downunder.

http://www.irvingvincent.com/

[88b]

I get to see a Shadow and a Comet every time I go to my friends place, he's also got an FLHX and a gay rod. His name's Vincent

[jmorton10]

My buddy has an impresive collection, 32 bikes at last count: here is one of them

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~John