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<blockquote data-quote="Tom Gaynor" data-source="post: 20679" data-attributes="member: 4034"><p>Mine made its first 300 miles from Stevenage to Edinburgh courtesy of British Rail... I guess Alexanders (the dealer) picked it up in a van: I'd hate to push a Vincent up the ramp out of Waverley station then the mile to Lothian Road.</p><p></p><p>What you say makes perfect sense (not that I doubt you for a moment) because speedos would then go on reading zero, and pipes go on unblued after road test. What do you mean exactly by "floor stock"?</p><p></p><p>(I have an interest in this because my father had a 1939 hand-change Norton, bought direct from the factory. 1939 hand-change Nortons don't exist. He had lost his left leg in a pit accident, could only ride if the brake was on the right, so the factory built him a bike to his spec. I'm sure that any factory would bend the standard spec if it meant an order, so T-crossing and I-dotting adherence to "a standard Vincent" has always seemed to me a bit daft.).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tom Gaynor, post: 20679, member: 4034"] Mine made its first 300 miles from Stevenage to Edinburgh courtesy of British Rail... I guess Alexanders (the dealer) picked it up in a van: I'd hate to push a Vincent up the ramp out of Waverley station then the mile to Lothian Road. What you say makes perfect sense (not that I doubt you for a moment) because speedos would then go on reading zero, and pipes go on unblued after road test. What do you mean exactly by "floor stock"? (I have an interest in this because my father had a 1939 hand-change Norton, bought direct from the factory. 1939 hand-change Nortons don't exist. He had lost his left leg in a pit accident, could only ride if the brake was on the right, so the factory built him a bike to his spec. I'm sure that any factory would bend the standard spec if it meant an order, so T-crossing and I-dotting adherence to "a standard Vincent" has always seemed to me a bit daft.). [/QUOTE]
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