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What age were you when you were first aware of HRDs or Vincents ?
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<blockquote data-quote="flxible" data-source="post: 159912" data-attributes="member: 998"><p>When I was 10 years old, (1960) domestic tranquility interruptus landed dad in the hoosegow, (one of the best days of my early life) and had mom and we three lads migrating from the east coast to the midwest, nearby some of her family.</p><p>We moved into a tiny apartment, the three of us sharing a room just large enough for a double bunkbed and a single mattress on the floor.</p><p>Quite soon eldest brother (he was 15) was lecturing his captive audience (middle bro and myself) on the virtues of motorcycling (we hadn't realized he was an expert) and on all of the best motorcycles; which were all English, and of which the Vincent was most revered but outlawed since it was so bad to the bone, and the specifics were lost in the vagaries of time, but not to worry the Norton was still being produced and probably its equal although although they, too, were soon to be outlawed, and so on...</p><p>The lectures ended a year or so later when we moved to a little bungalow, where middle brother and I put our bunkbed into another closet, while oldest brother and his mattress appropriated the cellar, and somehow survived blissfully down there.</p><p>Interestingly, as middle brother and I reached 16, we both got our m/c licenses, riding 125 Monkey Ward Benelli's and the like, and we're both still riding today, while eldest brother never rode bikes at all...</p><p></p><p>Then later when I was 28, a school friend who'd moved to London, (he was a dual national) invited me over to ride up to the IoM (which began a tradition for us, that only ended with his sad passing from cancer) and during that first visit, I happened to take a stroll from his place off Chiswick High down the Goldhawk Road, where I stopped in my tracks when I saw a place called Conway Motors.</p><p>They were real... this was the first time I'd seen an actual Vincent, and there was a half dozen of them there in the shop in varying conditions.</p><p>When I returned home to the states I was on a serious hunt and purchased the first one I found, ('53 BS) and while it proved to need everything, it's proved to be a good example, and is still with me now, more than 40 years on.</p><p>Best-</p><p>George</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="flxible, post: 159912, member: 998"] When I was 10 years old, (1960) domestic tranquility interruptus landed dad in the hoosegow, (one of the best days of my early life) and had mom and we three lads migrating from the east coast to the midwest, nearby some of her family. We moved into a tiny apartment, the three of us sharing a room just large enough for a double bunkbed and a single mattress on the floor. Quite soon eldest brother (he was 15) was lecturing his captive audience (middle bro and myself) on the virtues of motorcycling (we hadn't realized he was an expert) and on all of the best motorcycles; which were all English, and of which the Vincent was most revered but outlawed since it was so bad to the bone, and the specifics were lost in the vagaries of time, but not to worry the Norton was still being produced and probably its equal although although they, too, were soon to be outlawed, and so on... The lectures ended a year or so later when we moved to a little bungalow, where middle brother and I put our bunkbed into another closet, while oldest brother and his mattress appropriated the cellar, and somehow survived blissfully down there. Interestingly, as middle brother and I reached 16, we both got our m/c licenses, riding 125 Monkey Ward Benelli's and the like, and we're both still riding today, while eldest brother never rode bikes at all... Then later when I was 28, a school friend who'd moved to London, (he was a dual national) invited me over to ride up to the IoM (which began a tradition for us, that only ended with his sad passing from cancer) and during that first visit, I happened to take a stroll from his place off Chiswick High down the Goldhawk Road, where I stopped in my tracks when I saw a place called Conway Motors. They were real... this was the first time I'd seen an actual Vincent, and there was a half dozen of them there in the shop in varying conditions. When I returned home to the states I was on a serious hunt and purchased the first one I found, ('53 BS) and while it proved to need everything, it's proved to be a good example, and is still with me now, more than 40 years on. Best- George [/QUOTE]
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