Vincent 1000cc motorcycle ride. Super exhilarating.

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The 150 MPH speedo is a little bit of a give away....... Sure racing these bikes is fine..... but people tend who race motorbikes, tend to have short lives. And while I sometimes DO resent speed limits, I think they are generally a GOOD idea, and are best followed to potect us from ourselves and each other..... However - for a very properly set up, 2 valve, twin cylinder, 1000 CC motorbike that is very small, very narrow - meaning it has very little resistance, and I am not sure of the rear cogs that are available for rapid acceleration and lower top speed or long long legs and a higher top speed, and they are not micacles of combustion magnificense that can even defeat the laws of physics - but that bike can go a LOT faster and will easily do so..... but within sane or even legal road speeds, that is a nice bike to be riding .... Nice long legs, big loping engine... handles real good... good for covering big distances at a high sustained speed. BUT people are actually STUPID ENOUGH to run them without air filters.. which just sucks in dirt and turns the oil into grinding paste that circulates around inside the motor. Shortens the motor life significantly to no particular advantage, only adding to the din the motorbike rider has to endure.

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That Vincent has nice long legs, a generous amount of sensible power and good road holding... It winds out - sort of up to speed, rather sanely, unline a rocket ship Japanese 1100 + CC motor bike with 4 valves per head on 4 cyclinders, or just as bad, the new MEGA engine Harleys - that actually GO like a motocycle SHOULD be going, but they are either coming out HOT or coming out with BIG 1.9 liter V twins that can be hotted up.... That is a fucking huge engine, and back in the days of the 80 cubic inch engines, they were never able to pull wheel stands and shit like that... NOW - that is drag racing kinds of power outputs... not top fuel drag racing engines type design nor capability but fuck me - it's a lot of power...

@Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson: Agreed! The power output in motorcycles has gotten INSANE! I haven't heard about the new Harleys with the big engines, I'm going to have to check that out!

@bigintol03: I mean like they GO like motorcycles should.... instead of 800 pound slugs... but 74 and 80 cubic inch engines = 61 cubic inches = a liter = 1200 and 1300 cc motors, but now they are climbing up to just under 2 liter V twins... and they go.... I dunno... It's a LOT of power https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cDWDQmdo9Y ------------ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS8ITAQbDmQ ----------------- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuPOUB4dKSY -------- I mean the MODERN Harley - I am glad that they run as well as they do, I am not too sure about reliability issues... But to have a HUGE bike with a HUGE engine, kind of pull wheel stands and power slids at speed - sitting on 50 Mph and pulling wheel spins... That is a LOT of power... and while the Vincent is fast and powerful - it sort of winds up to speed, where as the BIG hot Harleys - just snap the throttle and your pulling wheel stands and or spinning the back wheel... I just think for sanity and safety it's far too much power, because you only have to be in a difficult situation with very little room for error, and there is far too much power on tap, with only a small twist of the throttle - which can equal loss of control / stability / direction etc... I don't think "road rules" are actually bad, because by and large people are predictable and prone to errors and mistakes, and they save us from ourselves, which is sort of why learner drivers and riders are limited to modestly powered vehicles instead of 1100 cc rocket ship Jap bikes and near racing grade V8's on public roads... So as much as I kind of really hate speed limits, they are the best thing ever in terms of saving us from ourselves and each other....

@bigintol03: Like the Vincent is a big and potentially fast bike, but it's a slow-ish and tractable amount of power and it winds up to speed - rather than having gobs of it immediately on tap.... Like I think while it's good to see Harleys really snap too it, and actually run like a very crisp fast bike, instead of an over sped rotary hoe, the Vincent is good size, shape and weight, and it's a tractable and useable amount of power... I mean 200 Kmh is far too fast on anything except an autobahn on a clear day... and for 99.9999999999% of all the other riding and road conditions, stacks of power is just plain dangerous... The Vincent does not have huge amounts of power... but it has a goodly amount of power for a very well designed 1000 CC twin cylinder, 2 valve head bike, and it makes it a GOOD and USEFUL form of fairly quick long distance transport... expecially if mostly keeping to the speed limits, most of the time...... And it's like the British Universal Motorcycle - the vertical twin, of about 650 - 750cc - with the plain flat sort of plank seat and very much like a motorised bicycle without pedals - this is a brilliant man to machine interface - you can ride, park, weave through traffic, and roar along at a fair clip if needed on the longer trips... It was entirely "Reasonable". When you look at the modern bikes they are just an idiotic money spinner for moron designers and their wet dreams ........ They are basically fucked on anything less than a race track. It's easy to get on and off, there is room for a bag to be strapped to the seat or saddle bags etc., it's easy to park, and get through bumper to bumper traffic, etc.. https://moneyinc.com/wp-conten....t/uploads/2021/04/Be But this bucket of shit, the only room for anything is to have it strapped to your spine in a back pack... https://tekekmeong.files.wordp....ress.com/2007/10/kaw

And there is generous hand rails for the pillion passenger.... The retards at Kan of Saki want their heads kicked in....