Vincent Motorcycles: The Untold Story since 1946 - Hardcover

Guyony, Philippe

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845849027 ISBN 13: 9781845849023

Verlag: Veloce Publishing, 2016

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A mammoth book which should satisfy even the most well-informed enthusiast. Real Classic It's far better than we expected, and we suspect that Author Philippe Guyony probably needed a blood-transfusion after this work. Put simply, books such as this could put television out of business, at least as far as Vincent lovers are concerned. Veloce's price is GBP100, and it's worth every penny. And if there's a Vincent owner in your life, you simply can't go wrong with presenting this book as a gift. Sump It is a mine of information about the marque that stands alone in the annals of the great British motorcycle story ... well done Philippe, you have done the mythical Vincent proud. The Road extremely comprehensive and well-presented Old Bike Australasia Like the Vincent motorcycle itself, Philippe Guyony's book "Vincent Motorcycles: the Untold Story since 1946" is a singular achievement. UltimateMotorcycling.com a beautiful book to treasure South East Biker Magazine. The Vincent-HRD Series C, more commonly known as Black Shadow and Black Lightening, became legend of its birth. Its technical innovations, its high performance and its aggressive forms at the time, topped this model from a small factory in Stevenage, England, in 1948, to the standard motorcycle caterpillar of the world. It was not a slogan but a fact, and it remained arrogantly for decades. Few motorcycles have recorded his name as strongly as Vincent's V-1000s. Designed by Phil Vincent and engineer Phil Irving, the Vincents were the first high-powered motorcycles with the engine as a supporting element;, incorporating an impounder is a spine that toward the times of oil deposit and a triangular bevelling ahead of its time. Unfortunately, its high cost ended with the closure of Vincent in only nine years, but the fans have extended their life to this day. This book tells the story of the C Series from 1946 to the present, including that of all those who helped create these legendary machines. Its author, Philippe Guyony, made his first Vincent in 1994, and since then has not stopped investigating about them. His knowledge and experience with the HRD, combined with extensive research in original sources, has combined in this key work on the brand. The prologue is signed by the Swiss manufacturer Fritz Egl, an icon in terms of sports frames and the resurrector of these motorcycles unparalleled in the seventies. - La Moto.

Reseña del editor

Very few motorcycles have carved a mark in history like the Vincent V-twin, from its arrival in 1946 and up to the present day. On the road, in club racing, in drag races, or competing for land speed records, it dominated the motorcycle world, leading to the famous catchphrase coined by the factory: "The World's Fastest Standard Motorcycle." It was a FACT - NOT a slogan. Images such as that of Rollie Free, in swimming trunks, laying flat on his works-modified Black Shadow and taking the American motorcycle land speed record at Bonneville in 1948, have now passed into posterity. In fact, the big Vincent was so ahead of its time, that it continued to compete successfully - almost arrogantly - in racing until the mid-1970s, against modern bikes. No other motorcycle in the world can claim this kind of achievement. Following the premature ending of Vincent production, Fritz Egli's 1967 Egli-Vincent was the first chassis completely redesigned for a Vincent in 21 years. Egli's machine inspired numerous builders for several generations and this book traces, holistically, the story of all those motorcycles in the broad context of the classic and modern history of the Vincent.Understand how the flame of passion still burns brightly today.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Veloce Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1845849027
• ISBN 13: 9781845849023
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400