Probably no machine has ever been so much faster and ahead of it's time as the deadly fast Vincent Black Widow. In 1948 this street machine could exceed 200MPH with ease.
Specifications:
Bore and Stroke 94mm x 102mm
Displacement 1400cc
Horsepower 118
Weight 378 lbs.
Carburetion 2 - 1 1/2" Amal GPs
Top Speed 190 mph
1/4 mile 9.3 sec.
In 1932, the motorcycling public finally came 'round to Philip Vincent's idea of a triangulated spring frame. Most people weren't used to such a revolutionary idea, and, back then, people accepted change like a three-legged pig.
The big 998 cc V-twin started its life in England. Some time in the 1960s, like so many other Vincents, it was abandoned and left to deteriorate in a damp garden shed. Somehow, perhaps after the shed collapsed, it found its way to a London dealer where it was cannibalized to keep other machines running. It was finally rescued in 1974 when I purchased the carcass, along with the dealer's entire stock of used Vincent parts. All five tons of the picked-over bones came to Canada.
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