The Vincent Rapide and Black Shadow had the most beautiful twin motors ever. If I were a rich man....
Hunter S. Thompson wrote a little vignette about riding a Vincent down Highway 1 south of San Francisco. I used to ride 1 all the time (my girlfriend lived on Clement St. and I lived in Sunnyvale, so that passage always captured my imagination. My Honda VFR800 Interceptor was much faster and infinitely better-handling than a Black Shadow, but something about the Black Shadow is a magnet for me.... T.E. Lawrence (AKA Lawrence of Arabia) died riding a Brough Superior. Back to your regularly scheduled program.... --Mark Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > Nicely done. > > Friend of mine had one of them that he bought for $50 in 1970. Still > has it. I rode it about 1976. Another friend in upstate NY has one too. > > The Black Shadow model would do almost 140 mph for real. And had no > brakes to speak of. And, um, challenging handling. But it was > wonderful anyway. The only thing more delightful/evil was a Brough > Superior, but it was 20 years older. > > Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
