Old fella passed away recently and was just going through some pics from his memorial service and thought i would post a couple up of his old Vincent.Wish i knew more about the bike ie AJS frame/front end?
Old fella passed away recently and was just going through some pics from his memorial service and thought i would post a couple up of his old Vincent.Wish i knew more about the bike ie AJS frame/front end?
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I would say its a Norton featherbed so the front end would be "Roadholder" forks. Might even be a repowered Manx. Be worth a bit now.
it's not a bad thing till you throw a KLR into the mix.
those cheap ass bitches can do anything with ductape.
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that's an AMC muffler (AMC AJS and Matchless) and they look like AMC shocks, I'm not familir enough with frame and front end though. What part of NZ and if a name is ok who was it? I spent 20 years in the Vincent Owners club and did there Archives fo a while and heard a few names etc.
Early longstroke Manx frame, forks and front brake. Bolt-up rear subframe and "upright" shocks so a very early frame IMO.
It'd be interesting to know if it's survived - or if there's now another Manx sporting "matching numbers" - and another Vincent worth close to a million.....
For me, it's the specials that should be preserved.
The pillon thing is rather ironic,doubt it was on that thing but at some stage in his early riding years he managed to get his mother on the back of whatever bike he owned at the time and they headed up around the Victoria park area (no doubt way different these days) and came to grief due to someone putting a wire across the road,her on the back was caught with it on the throat and off she went,shes long gone but always remember the scar from when i was a young fella and asking about it.
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