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<blockquote data-quote="Len Matthews" data-source="post: 21608" data-attributes="member: 178"><p>During the 1977 Shadow Lake Rally in Canada I was stopped by a police patrol car and told I should be riding with headlight on in daylight.This was going to be problem for me as my dynamo was not charging at the time.The officer told me the rule only applied to motorcycles registered after 1970 so I replied that it did not apply to my machine. "Why" he asked "How old is this?" "1951" I replied. He then spotted my"GB" sticker. "You're from England? "Yes, we've come over for a huge Vincent International Rally". "How did you get it here, by sea?" "No, it was flown over in the belly of a Boeing 747 along with thirty or so similar machines." "Unbelievable, tell this man" (a local press reporter). So we had to relate the whole story about the Vincent movement and how a rather unique motorcycle brought had so many nations together in rural Ontario.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Len Matthews, post: 21608, member: 178"] During the 1977 Shadow Lake Rally in Canada I was stopped by a police patrol car and told I should be riding with headlight on in daylight.This was going to be problem for me as my dynamo was not charging at the time.The officer told me the rule only applied to motorcycles registered after 1970 so I replied that it did not apply to my machine. "Why" he asked "How old is this?" "1951" I replied. He then spotted my"GB" sticker. "You're from England? "Yes, we've come over for a huge Vincent International Rally". "How did you get it here, by sea?" "No, it was flown over in the belly of a Boeing 747 along with thirty or so similar machines." "Unbelievable, tell this man" (a local press reporter). So we had to relate the whole story about the Vincent movement and how a rather unique motorcycle brought had so many nations together in rural Ontario. [/QUOTE]
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