"THE VINCENT" AND WHEN I SAY "THE" VINCENT. I MEAN "THE FUCKING VINCENT" . . . . YOU'RE A BETTER BIKE THAN I AM GUNGA DIN . . . . THE TEST BED PLATFORM RACED BY GEORGE BROWN, THE FORERUNNER OF THE SHADOW AND THE LIGHTNING . . . . LIKE EVERYONE ELSE, I THOUGHT IT HAD BECOME A NEAR MYTH, LONG GONE . . . . WRONG !!! HERE IT IS, IN THE FLESH !!!!

FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW, THE 'GUNGA DIN' VINNIE WAS THE STEVENAGE FIRM'S RACE BIKE RIDDEN TO ALL MANNER OF RACE AND SPEED TIME TRIAL GLORY BY EPIC BRIT JOCKEY GEORGE BROWN DURING THE LATE FORTIES . . . . IT WAS "THE" BLACK BIKE THAT INITIATED THE SOON TO BE GLOBAL LEGEND OF THE POMMIE V-TWIN'S POTENTIAL FOR THEN UNRIVALED SPEED, HANDLING AND INDIVIDUAL RIDER SETUP.

IT WAS ALSO GROUND POINT ZERO FOR THE DEVELOPMENTAL WORK THAT WOULD ULTIMATELY LEAD TO THE RELEASE OF THE BLACK SHADOW AND THEN, VINCENT'S UBER LEGEND SPEED MOSHEEN, THE BLACK LIGHTNING . . . . ALL THE LEAD UP R+D WORK WAS DONE USING GEORGE AND HIS VINNIE AS THE PLATFORM, THE LEGEND STATES THAT PHIL IRVING COULD TEAR DOWN AND REBUILD THE BEAST'S MOTOR WITH A BLINDFOLD ON AND ONE HAND TIED BEHIND HIS BACK !!!



IF YOU'RE INTO THE BROADER HISTORY OF SUPER COOL MOTORCYCLES AND THE MAKING THEREOF, YOU NEED TO HAVE A SQUIZ AND A LISTEN TO THIS BITCHIN BIT OF MINIDOCO FOOTAGE POSTED ON POOTUBE BY 'UTWCO1', HE ALSO HAS SOME OTHER COOL REFERENCE VIDS TO SCROLL THROUGH AS WELL . . . .