Boy did we get off the .I will try to send pics then back to the Indian. They are in photo bucket

More thread drift; Bill are you and Susan gonna spend any time in Q-site? We are going to be there the 20th-23rd for another bus rally at Rice Ranch. Would love to get together if you are in the area.

Speaking of bikes and Bonneville, i have an article that i cut out of some magazine a few years ago that shows Rollie Free wearing swim trunks laying on the back fender of a Vincent Black Shadow setting a record speed at the time of 150.3 mph, back in the late 40's or early 50's?

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Originally posted by Shadow man:
Speaking of bikes and Bonneville, i have an article that i cut out of some magazine a few years ago that shows Rollie Free wearing swim trunks laying on the back fender of a Vincent Black Shadow setting a record speed at the time of 150.3 mph, back in the late 40's or early 50's?

Late '40s, I think. In college, I knew a subsequent owner of that bike. I always bowed my head in the presence of that bike. He donated it to the Ford Museum in Dearborn, where he ended up working for Ford as an engineer.

I never met Rollie Free, and as a callow youth, did not look hard enough at the Vincent to take it all in. He was a former Indian racer, so played a big part in helping Burt Munro at BV.

I was, however, able to check out Barn Job, another famous Vincent. Not owning a Vincent is one of the tragedies of my life. I can't believe how dumb I was.

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Originally posted by Shadow man:
More thread drift; Bill are you and Susan gonna spend any time in Q-site?

Yes, but who knows where or when. We will be doing stuff up at the valley, so a lot depends on a lot. But, we will probably be in Q for Speed Week, and look forward to seeing you both.

I was able to stop by the Vincent Owners Club national rally that was held in Niagara Falls last summer just in time to see the legendary Vincent known as "Gunga Din" started up in the parking lot of the VOC rally site.
It is one loud old bike!!
I rode over on my old Royal Enfield Interceptor ... nobody was impressed with a simple old British vertical twin!
Don

http://www.wheels.ca/News%20an...tures/article/791907

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Originally posted by Shadow man:
Speaking of bikes and Bonneville, i have an article that i cut out of some magazine a few years ago that shows Rollie Free wearing swim trunks laying on the back fender of a Vincent Black Shadow setting a record speed at the time of 150.3 mph, back in the late 40's or early 50's?