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A racing version of the Black Shadow, the Black Lightning, went on to set the land speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats in 1948 with racer Rollie Free riding, lying on the seat and wearing only swimming trunks.
A Brief History of the Vincent Black Shadow The World's First Superbike
The Vincent Black Shadow is a British motorcycle designed and built at the Vincent works in Great North Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire UK. Motorcycles produced by Vincent H·R·D at their factory in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England were renowned for their design innovation, engineering excellence and high performance.
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1951 Vincent 998cc Black Shadow Series-C. Registration no. XFO 670. Frame no. RC9068B/D. Engine no. F10AB/1B/7168. Rear frame no. RC9068B/D. The ultimate 1950s superbike. Matching frame and engine. Recently restored. 'Well into the 1960s and even today, when it is wrapped in a mystique carefully cultivated by thousands of fanatically.
The Vincent Black Shadow Was the Real First Superbike
The Vincent Black Shadow deserves the title of the world's first superbike due to its innovations and performance. It was the fastest motorcycle of its time, with a top speed of over 125 MPH. The.
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The Black Shadow reflected this attitude. This menacing black monolith of a bike looks intimidating enough to make modern Harleys and Indians spill coolant all over themselves. When looking at the Shadow, there's almost the sense it was constructed directly from melted down Spitfires before being painted shiny and black.
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A 1952 Vincent Black Shadow is among these bikes. It's a Series C Black Shadow, most would agree about the most developed of regular production Vincent motorcycles. At around 55 horsepower, these bikes ruled the roads, and sometimes race tracks and, along with Broughs, were certainly the most prestigious of motorcycles in their time, highly.
A Brief History of the Vincent Black Shadow The World's First Superbike
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Restored Vincent Black Shadow 1953 Photographs at Classic Bikes
by Glenn Bewley. 1949 Vincent Black Shadow. The mythical Vincent in the barn. It's the holy grail of vintage motorcycles, the find every vintage motorcycle junkie dreams about. And sometimes, the dream comes true. This all started one night with a phone call from an old friend. He'd been contacted by a man in Philadelphia whose company had.
1951 Vincent Black Shadow tops auction at British motorcycle museum
This 1954 Vincent Black Shadow is a Series C example that was acquired by its current owner out of Texas in July 1969 and is said to have undergone a refurbishment by Vincent specialist Rip Tragle during the early 1990s that included rebuilding its 998cc V-twin, installing a Quaife five-speed gearkit, and refinishing the bike in black with gold
1951 Vincent Black Shadow Achieves £83,250 At H&H Auction
The Vincent Black Shadow was so fast that nothing could lay a glove on it for a quarter of a century. It's forever associated with the great Rollie Free and that photograph of the American daredevil, stripped to his trunks, lying on his front as he made a record 150 mph run at Bonneville in 1948. But that was a special factory-prepared special.
Vincent Black Shadow Series D The National Motor Museum Trust
It's Jay Leno's favorite motorcycle: the classic English superbike known as the Vincent Black Shadow. More than 50 years after the last one rolled off the line, the Black Shadow is still an.
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The Vincent Black Shadow - An Introduction. If the Brough Superior was the Rolls-Royce of motorcycles, then the Vincent Black Shadow was the Aston Martin. When Vincent began back in 1928 they started out the way they meant to keep going as "the makers of the world's fastest motorcycles". In fact the pièce de résistance Vincent, the.
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The most desirable models are the Black Shadow (Vincent also made 15 White Shadows that are identical to Black Shadows but with a polished engine), a more powerful and tuned version of the Rapide, and the Black Lightning, a racing specific version of the Black Shadow that only around 30 were made.
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The Vincent Rapide: The Father of the Black Shadow (1936-1955) The V-twin engine that Phil Irving created was made with a 47° "V", because the rearward set of the engine's idler was 23½°, so putting two together meant 23½° + 23½° = 47°.
The Fiendish Vincent Black Shadow Journey of the Orange Thread
The Black Shadow was the most powerful standard motorcycle of its time. In an age when the magical "ton" (100 mph) still quickened pulses, the 125-mph top speed of the normal version of Free's.