We started queueing to board the Norman Voyager for the English Channel crossing at 14:30 and they separate the vehicle types prior to boarding which put brave little Haximoto queued up with BMWs and all manner of cool motorcycles but check this one out:
Yep, that is a 1936 Vincent. Prior to 1956 its history is unknown but from that year until 2009 it was in a time machine in a garage. That's when the current owner found it and started restoring it. However, he didn't go chroming it or anything tasteless like that. Everything is original or machined to match the original ... and, yes, he did it himself except for some cylinder head work he had to send out.
This is what his wife (I guess) was riding:
This Norton is a baby relative to the Vincent but still has major class.
And here they are!
We were talking for some while and everybody who came by had to talk to them about the Vincent. They were returning from a biker gathering in which there were at least four Vincent Black Shadows. That must have been one incredible event!
But then I heard music playing and I had to find out what it was.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Hurdy Gurdy Man. I had never seen one before and was enthralled by it. He was very good with it but this wasn't the last of the music for the day.
Yep, that is a 1936 Vincent. Prior to 1956 its history is unknown but from that year until 2009 it was in a time machine in a garage. That's when the current owner found it and started restoring it. However, he didn't go chroming it or anything tasteless like that. Everything is original or machined to match the original ... and, yes, he did it himself except for some cylinder head work he had to send out.
This is what his wife (I guess) was riding:
This Norton is a baby relative to the Vincent but still has major class.
And here they are!
We were talking for some while and everybody who came by had to talk to them about the Vincent. They were returning from a biker gathering in which there were at least four Vincent Black Shadows. That must have been one incredible event!
But then I heard music playing and I had to find out what it was.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Hurdy Gurdy Man. I had never seen one before and was enthralled by it. He was very good with it but this wasn't the last of the music for the day.
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