Vincent Motorcycle Black Shadow

A bike so powerful that you might indeed expect to end your life on earth and go to join the choir invisible if you persistently pushed it to its limits.

Vincent motorcycle black shadow. If you were a motorcycle fan or speed freak in the late 40s and early 50s the vincent black shadow and black lightning motorcycles were some of the most desirable vehicles on the planet. 1953 vincent black shadow concourse condition restoration by dick busby and haig altounian the need for speed. Vincent produced motorcycles from 1932 55 when it went bankrupt. The black shadow uses a version of the air cooled four stroke 50 v twin engine that powers the vincent rapide.

Close inspection has however revealed that this fine example has. 1953 vincent black shadow series c 65 995 first registered here in the uk 29th july 1953 this is a fully matching numbers series c black shadow. The bikes created by british manufacturer vincent motorcycles are some of the most sought after collector motorcycles in the world and the black lightning occupies the top rung of this. As factory records for all engine numbers above 9999 do not exist we have no historical data for this bike and little extra history.

More than 50 years after the last one rolled off the line the black shadow is. The classic english superbike known as the vincent black shadow. It s jay leno s favorite motorcycle. The worlds greatest motorcycle of all time.

The vincent black shadow qualifies in almost every respect as the world s first superbike both in terms of the sheer power and speed it was capable of and in terms of the riding experience it delivered. In 1952 after financial losses were experienced when releasing capital to produce a vincent engined prototype indian vindian for the us market during 1949. A side by side look at a legend.