not just any old British bike, but properly sorted frkn Vincents how sic is that! total eye candy. and seeing them smoke plastics like that. that man can ride! it's a beautiful thing

The old bikes always had a self-starter: you started it yourself. No problems if the bike was kept in good tune. Even my lat bike, a 1981 Ducati 900 SS had no electric starter. Always started fist kick. Why carry all the extra weight of the starter and the heavy-duty battery?

@@brian.deller8313 Kick starting a Vincent is damned hard sometimes,so a little starting roller is just the ticket so you don't wear yourself out trying to get it light.

The Vincent HRD road bike was renowned for having the most powerful brakes of all road bikes with a deceleration force of 1G fro 2¡30 MPH which was the comparison standard then for all road bikes. with four 7-inch drum brakes, no twin - leading shoes but the drums were mounted outside of the wheel so no drum distortion due to spokes. I rode one for 27 years mostly on the road but at the Vincent Club Race Days, the original brakes allowed me to out-brake even the Norton framed Vincents that had disc brakes (what a mistake that was to convert from the original) and I won three tropies at my first meeting at Cadwell Park all those years ago. In South Africa racing in the big Classic Motorcycle Club's racing the first year I won the overall trophy causing the competition to spend lots of cash on modifying their 750 cc Norton Atlasses, and other bikes with race kits. Even then I was only slowed by my Vincents' footrests, which were raised to the highest position, grinding on the road while cornering. But the Vincent was designed to be a very fast touring bike, not a racer. Happy days when I was young about 50 to 60, not 82 as now. But the memories are very important in your senior years.

@@brian.deller8313 Thanks for the information, i stand corrected....phone about to die but thks again Sur

@@brian.deller8313 Did the clutches feel like normal plate clutches to use? There are clutch shoes in there as well isn't there?