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<blockquote data-quote="Chris Launders" data-source="post: 121583" data-attributes="member: 2010"><p>One of the points Big Ed makes is being able to take a short test ride, this is fine IF you know what a Vincent should feel like, I had a Rapide back in the 70s and about 15 years ago was looking to have a Standard Vincent again (I've had a Norvin for over 20 years) anyway a friend who was terminally ill offered me his that I could have when he had departed but I never got to ride it until then. </p><p></p><p>It was horrendous, the first ride was about a mile and it nearly threw me off as it tried to go into a tank-slapper the first bump I hit slightly banked over (he had fitted a hydraulic steering damper after it had thrown him off) there were no brakes to speak of and it turned out the back end was jacked up as far as it would go and was fitted with sidecar springs at the back and sagging D springs on the front.</p><p></p><p>The point is he had never ridden another Vincent, this was how he got it and he must have thought this was what Vincents were like.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chris Launders, post: 121583, member: 2010"] One of the points Big Ed makes is being able to take a short test ride, this is fine IF you know what a Vincent should feel like, I had a Rapide back in the 70s and about 15 years ago was looking to have a Standard Vincent again (I've had a Norvin for over 20 years) anyway a friend who was terminally ill offered me his that I could have when he had departed but I never got to ride it until then. It was horrendous, the first ride was about a mile and it nearly threw me off as it tried to go into a tank-slapper the first bump I hit slightly banked over (he had fitted a hydraulic steering damper after it had thrown him off) there were no brakes to speak of and it turned out the back end was jacked up as far as it would go and was fitted with sidecar springs at the back and sagging D springs on the front. The point is he had never ridden another Vincent, this was how he got it and he must have thought this was what Vincents were like. [/QUOTE]
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