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Re: Worlds fastest Vincent?
« Reply #1 on: 28.02. 2018 15:49 »
Wow
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Re: Worlds fastest Vincent?
« Reply #2 on: 28.02. 2018 16:28 »
Where do you find all this stuff. As Bill said - WOW!

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Re: Worlds fastest Vincent?
« Reply #3 on: 28.02. 2018 17:57 »
Where do you find all this stuff. As Bill said - WOW!

Well, I am retired. I'm on a few motorcycle groups on Facebook. If I spot something that you chaps might like I post it here.
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Re: Worlds fastest Vincent?
« Reply #4 on: 17.12. 2019 23:09 »
I did not expect to find this thing here in the BSA forum. I was wrenching and riding Max Lambky´s Vincent streamliner from 2004 to 2012, even had the whole engines at my workshop for rebuilding and constructed/built a complete new gearbox for it. Sadly it was not meant to be a record breaker, the fastest we ever recorded were 275 mph at around 6500 in second gear. When I shifted into high gear, the blower shaft broke and we were sidelined - again. The potential was there but due to too much problems caused by not enough testing and a constant shortage of time/money or good weather on the track we never achieved what we hoped for. Still happy days to remember and not that many people on the planet have ridden a streamliner motorcycle.
cheers, Harty

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Re: Worlds fastest Vincent?
« Reply #5 on: 18.12. 2019 09:03 »
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Re: Worlds fastest Vincent?
« Reply #6 on: 18.12. 2019 11:29 »
FaceAche link does not work for me
Nor for me. That was from last February.
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