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2 x 2LS Brakes
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<blockquote data-quote="Kansas Bad Man" data-source="post: 50092" data-attributes="member: 778"><p>Sonny Angel liked to tell this story when the never ending story or should I say stories about Vincent brakes arise when two or more lovers of the beast tell there tales. One of Sonny's best friends, Rebel was his handle Frank Hubbard his name. </p><p>The story goes like this, Sonny had returned to the states after spending a year and a little better at the works there in Stevenage. He left broke in 1954 due to the strict foreign labor laws in effect after the BIG one in 1946. Worked his way back on a tramp steamer , taking his Triumph and some 13 to 1 Heps a set of MK2s and a set of lightning pipes and dreams of owning and building a fast Vincent some day, which he did.</p><p>Scraping up a few bucks he found a 20/ 40 ft Dinar in National City California for sale cheep and started his SONNY ANGLE MOTORCYCLE BUSINESS. 60 years and more later its still in business and that fast Vincent dream is up on the mezzanine in the show room , the original 2o/ 40 shop is the parts room today .</p><p>Sonny found a Vincent B chassis no motor. He had a pre unit Triumph Thunder Bird engine , he put the Bird in the Vin and called it the HRDBIRD. Back to the brake story, the HERDBIRD would go much faster then the brakes would stop, Rebel who owned a Shadow said he could make a standard Vincent brake work, which he did. After the fix on the HERDBIRD , the first time he went to hard brake on the front , the wheel said WOOO and stopped , the brake was a standard one and worked. Rebel told me what he did to fix Vincent brakes, I've used the methods since and have put them down in words in a article I wrote which can be found at thevincent.com under Max's restoration tips</p><p></p><p>Regards Max</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kansas Bad Man, post: 50092, member: 778"] Sonny Angel liked to tell this story when the never ending story or should I say stories about Vincent brakes arise when two or more lovers of the beast tell there tales. One of Sonny's best friends, Rebel was his handle Frank Hubbard his name. The story goes like this, Sonny had returned to the states after spending a year and a little better at the works there in Stevenage. He left broke in 1954 due to the strict foreign labor laws in effect after the BIG one in 1946. Worked his way back on a tramp steamer , taking his Triumph and some 13 to 1 Heps a set of MK2s and a set of lightning pipes and dreams of owning and building a fast Vincent some day, which he did. Scraping up a few bucks he found a 20/ 40 ft Dinar in National City California for sale cheep and started his SONNY ANGLE MOTORCYCLE BUSINESS. 60 years and more later its still in business and that fast Vincent dream is up on the mezzanine in the show room , the original 2o/ 40 shop is the parts room today . Sonny found a Vincent B chassis no motor. He had a pre unit Triumph Thunder Bird engine , he put the Bird in the Vin and called it the HRDBIRD. Back to the brake story, the HERDBIRD would go much faster then the brakes would stop, Rebel who owned a Shadow said he could make a standard Vincent brake work, which he did. After the fix on the HERDBIRD , the first time he went to hard brake on the front , the wheel said WOOO and stopped , the brake was a standard one and worked. Rebel told me what he did to fix Vincent brakes, I've used the methods since and have put them down in words in a article I wrote which can be found at thevincent.com under Max's restoration tips Regards Max [/QUOTE]
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