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What age were you when you were first aware of HRDs or Vincents ?
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<blockquote data-quote="Peter Holmes" data-source="post: 159853" data-attributes="member: 302"><p>Around 13, now 73, where did those 60 years go? There was a cafe on the corner of Princes Road and Headstone Lane, Wealdstone, (opposite the HMSO building) I was just tasting the freedom that your first racing style cycle can deliver, exploring local haunts, and also this cafe was on the route of my paper round, bearing in mind my father rode a Comet as a commuter bike, but don't get to excited, it was a James Comet 98cc, beautiful little thing, I really regret it being sold for tuppence!</p><p>Anyway, seeing a Vincent Twin parked up outside this cafe, alongside all the lesser machinery certainly sparked something within me, and it took about 4 years to realise my ambition, and that was a complete stroke of luck really, a mate of mine, Ian Gregory, had managed to convince his Dad to purchase for him (from Conway's) a Vincent Rapide, something he could lash a sidecar onto to pass his test, but first time out, with L plates, and never having ridden an outfit previously, he managed to crash it on the bend just past Soper's the sell everything store, and the Granada Cinema, and so traumatised was he that he never rode it again.</p><p>But that was my good fortune, by that time I had already passed my test on my much crashed and bashed BSA B31/ Watsonian outfit, and was ready for something more powerful and interesting, the solo B31 did not really do it for me, or the Norton 77 500, but after much negotiation, down from £100.00 (which is what Ian's dad had paid Conway's), down to £65.00, I had myself a Vincent Rapide, Hallelujah!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Peter Holmes, post: 159853, member: 302"] Around 13, now 73, where did those 60 years go? There was a cafe on the corner of Princes Road and Headstone Lane, Wealdstone, (opposite the HMSO building) I was just tasting the freedom that your first racing style cycle can deliver, exploring local haunts, and also this cafe was on the route of my paper round, bearing in mind my father rode a Comet as a commuter bike, but don't get to excited, it was a James Comet 98cc, beautiful little thing, I really regret it being sold for tuppence! Anyway, seeing a Vincent Twin parked up outside this cafe, alongside all the lesser machinery certainly sparked something within me, and it took about 4 years to realise my ambition, and that was a complete stroke of luck really, a mate of mine, Ian Gregory, had managed to convince his Dad to purchase for him (from Conway's) a Vincent Rapide, something he could lash a sidecar onto to pass his test, but first time out, with L plates, and never having ridden an outfit previously, he managed to crash it on the bend just past Soper's the sell everything store, and the Granada Cinema, and so traumatised was he that he never rode it again. But that was my good fortune, by that time I had already passed my test on my much crashed and bashed BSA B31/ Watsonian outfit, and was ready for something more powerful and interesting, the solo B31 did not really do it for me, or the Norton 77 500, but after much negotiation, down from £100.00 (which is what Ian's dad had paid Conway's), down to £65.00, I had myself a Vincent Rapide, Hallelujah! [/QUOTE]
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