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What age were you when you were first aware of HRDs or Vincents ?
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<blockquote data-quote="Robert Watson" data-source="post: 159915" data-attributes="member: 38"><p>It seems like most of us were well under driving age when first diagnosed! At age about 14 or 15 I was out walking my dog when a rather noisy group of black motorcycles drove past. Now I had see lots of Harleys and Nortons etc, but these were different, and had to be those legendary bikes I had read about. Move on 20 odd years and I have a UJM when my Trident riding sibling invites me to go for a ride with him and a couple of friends, So me on my 550 Kawasaki, he on the Trident John McDougall on his Shadow and Dan Smith on the Rapide (that has just been sold to Jim and Liz) ride to the upper reaches of Mt Baker, sit in the still remnant snow and have a beer. Now we coast back down the hill, which is another story and head back home. On one long stretch of straight and clear road I am face down on the tank just managing to see the speedo touch 160 Kph, when Dan pulls along side sitting straight up and shifts in to 4th. That's it, I'm done, within a couple of months there is a large pile of parts in my garage which when done becomes the matching numbers Great Woolly Mammoth, which again is another story, Despite the recent find of a full Mammoth junior carcass here in Canada, mine is just a well used Rapide. Well that was the first one anyway, Vincent HRD that is!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Robert Watson, post: 159915, member: 38"] It seems like most of us were well under driving age when first diagnosed! At age about 14 or 15 I was out walking my dog when a rather noisy group of black motorcycles drove past. Now I had see lots of Harleys and Nortons etc, but these were different, and had to be those legendary bikes I had read about. Move on 20 odd years and I have a UJM when my Trident riding sibling invites me to go for a ride with him and a couple of friends, So me on my 550 Kawasaki, he on the Trident John McDougall on his Shadow and Dan Smith on the Rapide (that has just been sold to Jim and Liz) ride to the upper reaches of Mt Baker, sit in the still remnant snow and have a beer. Now we coast back down the hill, which is another story and head back home. On one long stretch of straight and clear road I am face down on the tank just managing to see the speedo touch 160 Kph, when Dan pulls along side sitting straight up and shifts in to 4th. That's it, I'm done, within a couple of months there is a large pile of parts in my garage which when done becomes the matching numbers Great Woolly Mammoth, which again is another story, Despite the recent find of a full Mammoth junior carcass here in Canada, mine is just a well used Rapide. Well that was the first one anyway, Vincent HRD that is! [/QUOTE]
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