Vincent Rapide 1000 twin, tech talk and ride out with fly past
Listen to the unmistakable sound of the mighty Vincent
Жүктеу.....
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@chrisjohnson4165 Жыл бұрын
When I was about 8, I'd never been on a motorbike, and a chap who came in our shop had a Vincent Black Shadow. I thought it looked like an antique (this was the early 60s) so I knew I wouldn't be impressed. He told me to hang on tight to his belt, and when he opened it up, it blew my mind. I did the same for my oldest son on my Norton Commando, and his younger brother rode on my BMW R100. I'm now 64, and I love my 36 year old BMWK75S, which I think was the Vincent of the 1980s. Nice to see you giving the Vinnie some gravy, and not mollycoddling it.
@chriskappert1365 Жыл бұрын
This is a motorcycle I would park in my livingroom in wintertime ! Sit in my chair with a good beer and just behold its shape and wonderfull engine , dreaming where to take it coming spring . It's that kind of motorcycle .
@SirBeauJangles
3 ай бұрын
On that (indoor) vein - I needed a tank for a BSA A7ss Shooting Star at one point, in the late 1960s - met an old guy one Saturday morning in Ross Motors basement parts dungeon in Central Glasgow - we got talking and he said he had a tank might do me okay and he didn't need more than a couple of pints' price for it. So off we goes up to Maryhill (very select up there y'know) I/we follow him in a pal's minivan, he's in some old A35 (remember those?) and we end up at this terraced block, real posh as there's no outside lavs, this is modern suburbia at its.... most interesting? In we goes, he hollers in "I'm back got some young guys needing bits" and we quickly establish his tank is useless for the A7 frame, turns out he more or less knew that but he was keen to let us see his bike. We're called through to another room, it's got a double bed in it and beyond the bed before the window is - a B31. An OLD B31. Not a modern one with a swingarm. Plungers. A bike that now might fetch maybe (a very crazy) £5-6k? He's hoping we'll buy it. It's kind of a sweetie right enough but - it's still - a B31? Yech. We had to let him down easy as he thought he'd likely got a sale. He offered to start it but we declined. At that time we'd never heard of CO poisoning but somehow we guessed that an elderly single might generate a bit of smoke in that wee room... unattractive idea somehow. He'd asked for - £45. And we thought he was deeply misguided to expect two young scruffs like us to want an ancient wheezy 350cc single - for £45?? But the best bit was - we asked him "how did you get it up here?" It was up a stair with a turnaround halfway up. A narrow stair. Turns out he'd built it up there from a naked forkless frame a bit at a time - an unspecified number of years previously, over weeks, in the room where he and his wife slept. With no thought about how to get the assembled bike down those stairs... We left him pondering. The room smelled of - old bike. oil, petrol, old rubber pegs and grips - and they'd slept in that room in the smell and the oiliness for god knows how long. Never did meet his lady wife. She never showed face. Never did get a tank for that S.Star, it gradually disappeared in small sales of bits. Some to guys met - in Ross Motors, of all places... :)
@heymanmotorsports492 жыл бұрын
The fly past was the best part Nothing better than a beautiful English country road with the most iconic brish bike of all. Thank you SO much for posting this
@kdsowen2882 Жыл бұрын
Not many people realise the japanese legacy of the Vincent . Yamaha purchased a Vincent 1000 to study for their first 'liter-v-twin' , the TR1 , XV1000 . Reviewers of the day 'slagged' the ugly-rear-end , which was a tribute to Vincent . They also essentially copied the rear-suspension , using one 'mono-shock' . The swing-arm and 'frame' were also Vincent-inspired . This chain-drive machine quickly evolved into the Virago-series and V-Stars etc of today . All the other Japanese-Cruisers were arguably a response to Yamaha and therefore Vincent . People moan that Vincent didn't carry-on , when in reality it changed the history of motorcycling in many-ways . Dave NZ
@barneylinet6602 Жыл бұрын
Everything has a spirit. This one tells of summer afternoons motoring on a pleasant English lane....
@gordonbriggs23452 жыл бұрын
Oh i wish that was mine lovely sound.thanks for the vid.
@billybcgn252 жыл бұрын
You are truly fortunate to enjoy riding one of the greatest motorcycles in history. I knew of the Vincent long ago, when I "inherited" my brother's Sears Allstate scooter (Puch of Austria), and was enamored by the marque. I knew then that it was made of unobtainium. And now they most assuredly are. What an amazing motorcycle! Thanks for taking us along for the ride.
@Aluminata Жыл бұрын
That is how the ideal motorbike engine sounds.
@jfparent695 Жыл бұрын
Love the Vincent Rapide. The low revolution acceleration of the v-twin reminds me of my MT-01.
@twistit6307 Жыл бұрын
that is a awesome bike and the sound it makes from the starter is crazy it worked that great back then bike before it's time
@edwardellery3032 Жыл бұрын
Got to be ridden,ride my B Series with Bramptons lovely ride,my 3 cylinder R3 and T160,real sounding bikes ,lucky to have grown up and ridden many in 52 years I have been riding.
@briannickson6631 Жыл бұрын
One glaring omission. A black leather petrol tank cover. Saw one of these in the early sixties and it certainly added the ‘wow’ factor to an already amazing machine.
@tryarunm
Жыл бұрын
That's interesting. I've been reading about Vincents for 20-odd years but never came across a tank cover. Nor on any other vintage bike I've seen. Was it meant to be put on when parked or on the go?
@briannickson6631
Жыл бұрын
@@tryarunm The couple I saw were kept on all the time. It was at the height of the ‘mods and rocket’ era. The bikers were part of a group visiting South Shields (County Durham). I don’t know if they were commercially available or bespoke. Certainly made an impact on me and I was a Lambretta scooter rider.
@tryarunm
Жыл бұрын
@@briannickson6631 Thanks for the info. I live in India and Lambrettas were very popular here. They were sold here till I think the mid 1970's but were still regular family transport in the late 80's. The new V200 and V125 might make it to India now along with the e-Lamby.
@steveking20852 жыл бұрын
Sounded like it wanted to fly great 👍
@garypeatling7927 Жыл бұрын
Actually sounds better than guzzi , magnificent machine worth more than my house
@pjhammer78 Жыл бұрын
What an absolutely fabulous machine! Lol,I know you made this video over a year ago BUT I want that bike! I can’t afford but oh boy please, one day! ❤
@Bertrum1232 жыл бұрын
Beutiful looking engine
@lesjones76173 ай бұрын
Love it!
@davidwhittingham8617 Жыл бұрын
Love the way the front suspension's working away.
@grantkokich6906 Жыл бұрын
Nice bike. Nice sound.
@manout-kidin8735 Жыл бұрын
he surely rides vincent 1000 like it supposed to be !
@roymatson545
Жыл бұрын
I used to own a Comet in my younger days. I suspect some of these old bikes have no temperature control hence the run around the block, they will toast themselves if run all day.. He aid you can put the original dynamo back, but it's only 6 Volts so it won't charge the 12 Volt battery
@tryarunm Жыл бұрын
Lovely machine, and with that electric starter becomes so accessible. A pity Philip Vincent didn't come up with one himself. It might have extended the bike's longevity for another decade. I found it unusual that she idles like a parallel twin whereas I thought she'd sound like a Harley.
@JohnJones-cp4wh2 жыл бұрын
When starting the Vincent with electric start, just crack the throttle a little bit, put one hand in pocket and press button. Don`t stand there waggling the throttle backwards and forwards.
@garypeatling7927 Жыл бұрын
What's it worth I ponder ?
Жыл бұрын
Idiot here... What's the function of the second lever on the left handlebar?
@lussoveloce
Жыл бұрын
Its a de compressor for easier starting on the kick start, also sometimes known as a valve lifter
Жыл бұрын
@@lussoveloce Cheers mate!
@tristinsway4217 Жыл бұрын
Where’s the big speedo gauge?
@jfparent695
Жыл бұрын
On the Black Shadow…
@111mcivor Жыл бұрын
Beautiful bike but the seat looks to an afterthought.
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When I was about 8, I'd never been on a motorbike, and a chap who came in our shop had a Vincent Black Shadow. I thought it looked like an antique (this was the early 60s) so I knew I wouldn't be impressed. He told me to hang on tight to his belt, and when he opened it up, it blew my mind. I did the same for my oldest son on my Norton Commando, and his younger brother rode on my BMW R100. I'm now 64, and I love my 36 year old BMWK75S, which I think was the Vincent of the 1980s. Nice to see you giving the Vinnie some gravy, and not mollycoddling it.
This is a motorcycle I would park in my livingroom in wintertime ! Sit in my chair with a good beer and just behold its shape and wonderfull engine , dreaming where to take it coming spring . It's that kind of motorcycle .
@SirBeauJangles
3 ай бұрын
On that (indoor) vein - I needed a tank for a BSA A7ss Shooting Star at one point, in the late 1960s - met an old guy one Saturday morning in Ross Motors basement parts dungeon in Central Glasgow - we got talking and he said he had a tank might do me okay and he didn't need more than a couple of pints' price for it. So off we goes up to Maryhill (very select up there y'know) I/we follow him in a pal's minivan, he's in some old A35 (remember those?) and we end up at this terraced block, real posh as there's no outside lavs, this is modern suburbia at its.... most interesting? In we goes, he hollers in "I'm back got some young guys needing bits" and we quickly establish his tank is useless for the A7 frame, turns out he more or less knew that but he was keen to let us see his bike. We're called through to another room, it's got a double bed in it and beyond the bed before the window is - a B31. An OLD B31. Not a modern one with a swingarm. Plungers. A bike that now might fetch maybe (a very crazy) £5-6k? He's hoping we'll buy it. It's kind of a sweetie right enough but - it's still - a B31? Yech. We had to let him down easy as he thought he'd likely got a sale. He offered to start it but we declined. At that time we'd never heard of CO poisoning but somehow we guessed that an elderly single might generate a bit of smoke in that wee room... unattractive idea somehow. He'd asked for - £45. And we thought he was deeply misguided to expect two young scruffs like us to want an ancient wheezy 350cc single - for £45?? But the best bit was - we asked him "how did you get it up here?" It was up a stair with a turnaround halfway up. A narrow stair. Turns out he'd built it up there from a naked forkless frame a bit at a time - an unspecified number of years previously, over weeks, in the room where he and his wife slept. With no thought about how to get the assembled bike down those stairs... We left him pondering. The room smelled of - old bike. oil, petrol, old rubber pegs and grips - and they'd slept in that room in the smell and the oiliness for god knows how long. Never did meet his lady wife. She never showed face. Never did get a tank for that S.Star, it gradually disappeared in small sales of bits. Some to guys met - in Ross Motors, of all places... :)
The fly past was the best part Nothing better than a beautiful English country road with the most iconic brish bike of all. Thank you SO much for posting this
Not many people realise the japanese legacy of the Vincent . Yamaha purchased a Vincent 1000 to study for their first 'liter-v-twin' , the TR1 , XV1000 . Reviewers of the day 'slagged' the ugly-rear-end , which was a tribute to Vincent . They also essentially copied the rear-suspension , using one 'mono-shock' . The swing-arm and 'frame' were also Vincent-inspired . This chain-drive machine quickly evolved into the Virago-series and V-Stars etc of today . All the other Japanese-Cruisers were arguably a response to Yamaha and therefore Vincent . People moan that Vincent didn't carry-on , when in reality it changed the history of motorcycling in many-ways . Dave NZ
Everything has a spirit. This one tells of summer afternoons motoring on a pleasant English lane....
Oh i wish that was mine lovely sound.thanks for the vid.
You are truly fortunate to enjoy riding one of the greatest motorcycles in history. I knew of the Vincent long ago, when I "inherited" my brother's Sears Allstate scooter (Puch of Austria), and was enamored by the marque. I knew then that it was made of unobtainium. And now they most assuredly are. What an amazing motorcycle! Thanks for taking us along for the ride.
That is how the ideal motorbike engine sounds.
Love the Vincent Rapide. The low revolution acceleration of the v-twin reminds me of my MT-01.
that is a awesome bike and the sound it makes from the starter is crazy it worked that great back then bike before it's time
Got to be ridden,ride my B Series with Bramptons lovely ride,my 3 cylinder R3 and T160,real sounding bikes ,lucky to have grown up and ridden many in 52 years I have been riding.
One glaring omission. A black leather petrol tank cover. Saw one of these in the early sixties and it certainly added the ‘wow’ factor to an already amazing machine.
@tryarunm
Жыл бұрын
That's interesting. I've been reading about Vincents for 20-odd years but never came across a tank cover. Nor on any other vintage bike I've seen. Was it meant to be put on when parked or on the go?
@briannickson6631
Жыл бұрын
@@tryarunm The couple I saw were kept on all the time. It was at the height of the ‘mods and rocket’ era. The bikers were part of a group visiting South Shields (County Durham). I don’t know if they were commercially available or bespoke. Certainly made an impact on me and I was a Lambretta scooter rider.
@tryarunm
Жыл бұрын
@@briannickson6631 Thanks for the info. I live in India and Lambrettas were very popular here. They were sold here till I think the mid 1970's but were still regular family transport in the late 80's. The new V200 and V125 might make it to India now along with the e-Lamby.
Sounded like it wanted to fly great 👍
Actually sounds better than guzzi , magnificent machine worth more than my house
What an absolutely fabulous machine! Lol,I know you made this video over a year ago BUT I want that bike! I can’t afford but oh boy please, one day! ❤
Beutiful looking engine
Love it!
Love the way the front suspension's working away.
Nice bike. Nice sound.
he surely rides vincent 1000 like it supposed to be !
@roymatson545
Жыл бұрын
I used to own a Comet in my younger days. I suspect some of these old bikes have no temperature control hence the run around the block, they will toast themselves if run all day.. He aid you can put the original dynamo back, but it's only 6 Volts so it won't charge the 12 Volt battery
Lovely machine, and with that electric starter becomes so accessible. A pity Philip Vincent didn't come up with one himself. It might have extended the bike's longevity for another decade. I found it unusual that she idles like a parallel twin whereas I thought she'd sound like a Harley.
When starting the Vincent with electric start, just crack the throttle a little bit, put one hand in pocket and press button. Don`t stand there waggling the throttle backwards and forwards.
What's it worth I ponder ?
Idiot here... What's the function of the second lever on the left handlebar?
@lussoveloce
Жыл бұрын
Its a de compressor for easier starting on the kick start, also sometimes known as a valve lifter
Жыл бұрын
@@lussoveloce Cheers mate!
Where’s the big speedo gauge?
@jfparent695
Жыл бұрын
On the Black Shadow…
Beautiful bike but the seat looks to an afterthought.
@davidwhittingham8617
Жыл бұрын
Guess its been raised for a taller rider