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What age were you when you were first aware of HRDs or Vincents ?
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<blockquote data-quote="teunvandriel" data-source="post: 159872" data-attributes="member: 587"><p>Shortly after the war, the only Dutch Motorcycle Magazine "MOTOR" published a short article about a new 1000 cc HRD Twin, the first Series B, almost 50 HP, with the comment of the editors that such heavy and fast motorbikes should be forbidden by the government, life-threatening. In the years that followed little or nothing was published by this magazine, which may also have been the reason that very few HRDs / Vincents were sold new in Holland. Almost 20 years later in 1965 (in the meantime a new young editor had taken the place of the HRD hater) he wrote an enthusiastic story about a Vincent Special owned by a man called David Granger who was on holiday in Holland with this motorbike. The engine was called ATILLA. The engine came from a Black Shadow and had a special crankshaft, TT carbs and high pistons. The front fork was a type Earles fork and the front brake came from a Gilera, according to the story. I myself was 19 years old in 1965, riding a R69S, and had never heard of a Vincent at that time. Later, in our local motorbike club, there was an older man with a Black Shadow, whom we never saw. I have read the story perhaps 10 times. A few years later I saw Vincents in real life at the big motorbike meetings on the continent like the Zeester rally, Lions meeting and Elefanten meeting. </p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]51546[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="teunvandriel, post: 159872, member: 587"] Shortly after the war, the only Dutch Motorcycle Magazine "MOTOR" published a short article about a new 1000 cc HRD Twin, the first Series B, almost 50 HP, with the comment of the editors that such heavy and fast motorbikes should be forbidden by the government, life-threatening. In the years that followed little or nothing was published by this magazine, which may also have been the reason that very few HRDs / Vincents were sold new in Holland. Almost 20 years later in 1965 (in the meantime a new young editor had taken the place of the HRD hater) he wrote an enthusiastic story about a Vincent Special owned by a man called David Granger who was on holiday in Holland with this motorbike. The engine was called ATILLA. The engine came from a Black Shadow and had a special crankshaft, TT carbs and high pistons. The front fork was a type Earles fork and the front brake came from a Gilera, according to the story. I myself was 19 years old in 1965, riding a R69S, and had never heard of a Vincent at that time. Later, in our local motorbike club, there was an older man with a Black Shadow, whom we never saw. I have read the story perhaps 10 times. A few years later I saw Vincents in real life at the big motorbike meetings on the continent like the Zeester rally, Lions meeting and Elefanten meeting. [ATTACH type="full"]51546[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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