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What age were you when you were first aware of HRDs or Vincents ?
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<blockquote data-quote="Speedtwin" data-source="post: 159859" data-attributes="member: 5012"><p>Bit of back ground.</p><p>The last three generations our family have oil in the veins, motorcycle racing consumed our cash and all our time.</p><p>Come spring every weekend as kids we were packed into the Bedford van and taken to our summer playground,the paddock.</p><p>Getting there was always an adventure,dirty stinking ferries and long journeys spend sitting in heaps of smelly race leathers in the back of the clattering van.</p><p>My sister and myself in the back sharing valuable transport space with bikes and spares.</p><p>I did not know what a seatbelt was until I learnt to drive a car many years later.</p><p></p><p>My Grandad raced BSAs my uncle and my Dad, Nortons then Yamahas, so from the early age of six or seven I had officially started my bike apprenticeship.</p><p>All of our extended family raced.</p><p>My own son is now sixteen, he too has the Vincent bug and from he was 5 or 6 he knew his way around a bike, we have over the years utilised his small stature to crawl down inside the fairing of the race outfit to tighten the unreachable by an adult nuts and bolts he is also a dab hand at tea making and lock wiring.</p><p></p><p>My earliest Vincent memory is a sound.</p><p>I was sitting on a small oily wooden box bike stand cleaning the engine casing of my Dads bike in the paddock of the Temple 100 road circuit in Saintfield Co Down.</p><p>I must have been about eight or nine at the time.</p><p></p><p>The sound made the hairs on my arms stand on end.</p><p>I jumped and turned around to see my great uncle Brian on a Rapide, two down pipes and a home made silencer complete with a very homemade sidecar frame stop inches away from me.</p><p>On the frame was not a sidecar chair, but his NSU race bike tied on with a black rope.</p><p>He explained that his car a mini had broke down so he was using his work bike to move the race bike.</p><p>Yes he was well known for his 850 Austin mini bike transporter.</p><p>Turns out speaking to relatives some years on, Brian at the time was a brick-layer and used his Rapide and sidecar to go to work, move bricks and cement to site and occasionally his laborer.</p><p>Brian is in Vancouver Canada now.</p><p>Brian's Rapide was lost in the late seventies when my Grandads bike shop in Belfast was blown up.</p><p></p><p>That was it I had to have one.</p><p>Some forty plus years later a bought my first Vincent.</p><p>No racing anymore but plenty of cash still being converted into noise.</p><p></p><p>Al</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Speedtwin, post: 159859, member: 5012"] Bit of back ground. The last three generations our family have oil in the veins, motorcycle racing consumed our cash and all our time. Come spring every weekend as kids we were packed into the Bedford van and taken to our summer playground,the paddock. Getting there was always an adventure,dirty stinking ferries and long journeys spend sitting in heaps of smelly race leathers in the back of the clattering van. My sister and myself in the back sharing valuable transport space with bikes and spares. I did not know what a seatbelt was until I learnt to drive a car many years later. My Grandad raced BSAs my uncle and my Dad, Nortons then Yamahas, so from the early age of six or seven I had officially started my bike apprenticeship. All of our extended family raced. My own son is now sixteen, he too has the Vincent bug and from he was 5 or 6 he knew his way around a bike, we have over the years utilised his small stature to crawl down inside the fairing of the race outfit to tighten the unreachable by an adult nuts and bolts he is also a dab hand at tea making and lock wiring. My earliest Vincent memory is a sound. I was sitting on a small oily wooden box bike stand cleaning the engine casing of my Dads bike in the paddock of the Temple 100 road circuit in Saintfield Co Down. I must have been about eight or nine at the time. The sound made the hairs on my arms stand on end. I jumped and turned around to see my great uncle Brian on a Rapide, two down pipes and a home made silencer complete with a very homemade sidecar frame stop inches away from me. On the frame was not a sidecar chair, but his NSU race bike tied on with a black rope. He explained that his car a mini had broke down so he was using his work bike to move the race bike. Yes he was well known for his 850 Austin mini bike transporter. Turns out speaking to relatives some years on, Brian at the time was a brick-layer and used his Rapide and sidecar to go to work, move bricks and cement to site and occasionally his laborer. Brian is in Vancouver Canada now. Brian's Rapide was lost in the late seventies when my Grandads bike shop in Belfast was blown up. That was it I had to have one. Some forty plus years later a bought my first Vincent. No racing anymore but plenty of cash still being converted into noise. Al [/QUOTE]
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