OK, so who in BH19 has the Vincent -V-twin?

In this particular instance, the OP has a faint memory of a man who used
to live on the corner of, I think, Manor Road and Cluny Crescent in
Swanage in the 1980s, give or take a decade. He was then perhaps in his
60s. On his drive sometimes sat various bikes, mostly in glossy black.
Girder forks, IIRC, and perhaps fishtail exhausts. Definitely proper
bikes, or a subset thereof.

Because proper bikes includes whatever these were, doesn't necessarily
mean that any other particular PWT is or is not a proper bike. And
propriety may vary with time and context.

So we still don't know who it might gave been and what other goodies may
lurk there. Would be nice to think that it's the same family.


Who was it did the piece on some machines possessing quality? W H
Charnock, Robert M Pirsig or who?

 

They weren't the first either. Istr some car in the 30s had it - albeit
a centrally mounted light.
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Eh? Balancing the carbs takes 2 mins. Just as well, because they need it
frequently.
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Ant - 441cc said...

I do lots of miles and I do all my own spannering when needed. I've
never had a bike fail an MOT in 28 years of riding.

 

Rusty Hinge 2 said...

Proper bikes

HTH

 

The first one looks like an early airship, and the second one suggests
it was made by Sinclair...

 

Ah! - Triumph twin + vibration = "adaptive headlight".

 

Trumpets were bad enough (I had a Trophy twin) but BSA Road
Roller^H^H^Rocket was shall we say, more of a mover and a shaker.

 

I wasn't far from your NOTW today, at Vodafone South of Dublin. What a
beautiful day it was in the Free State, sad not to be on the bike until
I got back as far as Lisburn....ewwww

 

Hmm ... Britain Shakes Arse .. never owned one ... I'm sort of looking
for a mechanical basket case, of the kind that needed spanners for the
dismantling rather than the auto-destruct/explosion method.
(hmmm .. Laverda ... Montjuic .. Jota .. Montjuic ... harrr ... )

 

Nah, you were still 100 miles short.

It's been chilly hereabouts but no snow so far. Sunny South East,
normally.
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You must be almost at Rosslare then

 

"The man ain't got no culture!"

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The one saving grace of Bob Dylan, those words. (And their preamble.)

 

#I knew a man, his brain so small,
#He couldn't think o' nothin' a'tall,
#Not the same as you and me,
#He doesn't dig po-etry.
<spoken>
#He's so unhip, when you say "Dylan",
#He think's you're talking about Dylan Thomas!
#Whoever *HE* was...
#The man ain't got no culture...
</s>
#But it's alright Ma,
#Everybody must get stoned!
....
<spoken>
#Folk-rock!
<fades>
#I've lost my harmonica, Albert...
--A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I was Robert Macnamara'd
Into Submission): Paul Simon on "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and
Thyme (Simon and Garfunkel).

http://www.morethings.com/music/beatles/rockyraccoon.html

Are you sure you got that attribution right?

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KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".