Average age Vincent owner/VOC member - Number Vincents owned.

What is your age?

  • 35-45

    Votes: 5 4.2%
  • 46-55

    Votes: 10 8.3%
  • 56-65

    Votes: 37 30.8%
  • 66-75

    Votes: 48 40.0%
  • 76-85

    Votes: 16 13.3%
  • 86-95

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • 15-35

    Votes: 4 3.3%

  • Total voters
    120
  • Poll closed .

vibrac

Well Known and Active Forum User
VOC Member
A statistically inaccurate extrapolation from the votes so far...30 people are potentially 10-15 years away from selling their Vincents, myself included. That puts 30 Vincents on the market in a relatively short period.
How do we ensure that the increased supply doesnt push down prices?
Is there a way to encourage the new owners to become members of the VOC?
How do we encourage motorcycle restoration experts to learn the minutiae, the fine details of Vincent restoration, the adjustments..the operation?
Take two phrases from your post
How do we ensure that the increased supply doesnt push down prices?
Is there a way to encourage the new owners to become members of the VOC?


If we dont care about the first then the encouragement will be self evident
 

Bazlerker

Well Known and Active Forum User
Non-VOC Member
The link to the “How Many Vincents Do you Own?” Poll does not work, the poll is no longer available. Can the poll be restored please..
 

Kevin Emery

Well Known and Active Forum User
VOC Member
Hello All

My comments on how to encourage more members, based on my own experience of owning a Vincent for two years.

1. I struggled to find and buy a Vincent. Even though I attended a club meeting where they lamented the demise of rallies and meets because of not enough attendees and enthusiasm. Even though two of the attendees had Vincents in bits and were clearly never going to put them back together they would not sell them to me. If you want to encourage new riders sell the dismantled bikes that you are never going to put back together and ride.
2. The manuals are impenetrable. A Haynes type manual with photos and instructions written in a modern idiom would be a boon for new riders. This is something the club could encourage. I believe it would be highly valued.
3. Get rid of the obituaries in MPH. I am interested in the future of my bike. Publish articles on how to maintain a Vincent. Look to the future not the past.

Having lit blue touch paper I will retire.

Kevin
 

vibrac

Well Known and Active Forum User
VOC Member
Hello All

My comments on how to encourage more members, based on my own experience of owning a Vincent for two years.

1. I struggled to find and buy a Vincent. Even though I attended a club meeting where they lamented the demise of rallies and meets because of not enough attendees and enthusiasm. Even though two of the attendees had Vincents in bits and were clearly never going to put them back together they would not sell them to me. If you want to encourage new riders sell the dismantled bikes that you are never going to put back together and ride.
2. The manuals are impenetrable. A Haynes type manual with photos and instructions written in a modern idiom would be a boon for new riders. This is something the club could encourage. I believe it would be highly valued.
3. Get rid of the obituaries in MPH. I am interested in the future of my bike. Publish articles on how to maintain a Vincent. Look to the future not the past.

Having lit blue touch paper I will retire.

Kevin
I cannot agree with the above remarks
1. there is a constant churn of owners bikes for sale at Vincent spares at the moment there is a project Comet for sale. And once you have obtained the major components I venture there is not another machine that has such good spares availability.

2. I would never hold Haynes manuals up as a paragon of mechanical information having just suffered one on a R100 BMW ;) ;) but the Vincent is awash with information. For a start you are sitting here on an accessible searchable archive of gigabytes and helpful owners ready to help, just look at today someone asked how to save his fingers putting on a brake shoe, and there came a full comprehensive answer from a fellow owner. If you want youtube answers (and I must confess I dont) there is the current '51 Vincent' series being aired. And as for books just see all the books and manuals available (see the Vincent spares help page) https://www.vincentspares.co.uk/help/ some only produced a couple of years ago. You must remember we are dealing with an engineering product you need some engineering knowledge its not a consumable durable with an owners manual that after telling you where to find the spark plug eternally says 'return to the dealers'

3 As for obituaries this is a Social club as well as a mechanics convention. I will simply say there is a section to welcome new members as well.. its called life.
 

Bill Cannon

Well Known and Active Forum User
VOC Member
Unless my memory is playing tricks on me (possible!) wasn't a DVD made several years ago of how to strip and rebuild a twin?
Cheers Bill
 
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