Patrick Turner wrote:

Eiron wrote:
Patrick Turner wrote:

I did like BSA and Matchless and Norton, oh, and Vincent. They made
music.
Especially The Vincent, and at 166MPH on Conrod Straight at Bathurst.
The older you get the faster you were. Let's have some more details.

I didn't ride the Vincent at that speed at Bathurst in about 1965.

But Eric Debenham did.

He was a privateer motorcyclist who at that time owned a stable
of single and twin Vincents.

Thanks. I just looked him up on the interweb thingy.
That Norvin wasn't quite a standard Vincent!

While we are on the subject did you know that Jack Findlay died recently?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.../04/db0401.xml

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Eiron.