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Armed Services eh? They couldn’t find a bigger extravagance, so they went Vincent!The MoD made the request to Vincent for these picador engines.
Armed Services eh? They couldn’t find a bigger extravagance, so they went Vincent!The MoD made the request to Vincent for these picador engines.
It kept the company going when they were not selling bikes, remember the cost of their bike in the 1950s were the same as buying a country cottage with a septic tank, I wonder which one increased in value the most?Armed Services eh? They couldn’t find a bigger extravagance, so they went Vincent!
Yep, most GP racers were the same when tuned to the "nines" having sweet nothing below the bottom of their powerband.Exactly!
So they had a high power to weight ratio, more real life RWHP than most Commandos, and almost zero ‘torque’ ... and won.
Hence my point.
He had enough brains to sort out the xs650 frame for YamahaYou would not want to be doing that. The Paton 500 was not fast for a very long time. I don't think Percy Tait had any brains. It is possible to get a Triumph 500 going very fast, but it would be the nastiest bike in creation. 'Torque wins races;'.
You win Access Norton for the Month of November!put a Norton engine in there and you would have a "HelNo" helicopter Norton
He did not have enough brains to find himself a bike with which he could demonstrate his true ability. That Triumph 500 would have been a bastard. Going well on that does not prove anything except stupidity. The trouble is that Percy Tait was probably like most of us - he did not care about money. He worked for Triumph fer almost nothing.He had enough brains to sort out the xs650 frame for Yamaha
So he was brainless in your opinion because he could have done better?He did not have enough brains to find himself a bike with which he could demonstrate his true ability. That Triumph 500 would have been a bastard. Going well on that does not prove anything except stupidity. The trouble is that Percy Tait was probably like most of us - he did not care about money. He worked for Triumph fer almost nothing.
Hailwood never rode a shit-heap.
Did you make more money from riding bikes than Percy Tait did?He did not have enough brains to find himself a bike with which he could demonstrate his true ability. That Triumph 500 would have been a bastard. Going well on that does not prove anything except stupidity. The trouble is that Percy Tait was probably like most of us - he did not care about money. He worked for Triumph fer almost nothing.
Hailwood never rode a shit-heap.