Sunday, January 25, 2015

A Wealth Of Riches

The other day a copy of an area newsletter was sent to me, jogging my memory of an afternoon I spent in September back in 2009.  It was a Saturday and a result of something I'd seen on my way home from work the day before.  South from the Twin Cities, just into Red Wing, I met 4 or 5 Vincent motorcycles.  Now meeting 4 or 5 (even 40 or 50) H.D. twins would have been a normal occurrence but 4 or 5 of those H.R.D.'s??

After some online poking around, I found out that a gathering was taking place a couple of towns away so on Saturday, I fired up the Helix and headed west.  A wonderful bonus that day was that friends Walter and Elaine showed up as well, they on another twin but theirs was a big V Yamaha.






This one was more in the spirit of things than my yellow one was.......












I have no idea how many parts make up a put-together Vincent but let's just say 1000 for a round number.  When I first arrived, 750 of them on this guy's bike were spread out on the parking lot.  Most everything by this time was back in place.





Leaning different ways.......



 






6 comments:

  1. Be still my heart: The black cafe racer style Vincent strikes my fancy. Beautiful bikes, and seemingly in excellent shape.

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    1. My hunch is that many if not most of these are in a better state of being than they were when the left the factory. It was a fun afternoon with so many of them to look at.

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  2. Those were some incredibly, show-room shiny Vincents!

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  3. Wow, happy accident that you just happened to see the bikes. Sure are some beautiful machines in those pictures. So many shiny bits.

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    1. A storied brand with lots of history and lots of fun to see though I'm more than satisfied with the ones I ride. I'm satisfied that the people keeping these alive are the proprietors that should be.

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