Some pix from the Fenman yesterday

[Nik]

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d45/Futurebike74/IMG_6086.jpg

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d45/Futurebike74/IMG_6087.jpg

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d45/Futurebike74/IMG_6088.jpg

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d45/Futurebike74/IMG_6089.jpg

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d45/Futurebike74/IMG_6090.jpg


:)

[Nik]

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d45/Futurebike74/IMG_6091.jpg

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d45/Futurebike74/IMG_6092.jpg

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d45/Futurebike74/IMG_6093.jpg

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d45/Futurebike74/IMG_6094.jpg

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d45/Futurebike74/IMG_6095.jpg

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d45/Futurebike74/IMG_6096.jpg

[Shifty]

Nice pics - I'll have the Vincent, please :D

[Nik]

Me too, either of them - got a thing about Vincents ever since I rode one a few years back. :)

[Shifty]

You've ridden a Vincent? Lucky (not to mention spawny) git!! :D

[Nik]

Yeah, years ago - we're doing a vee-twin special for BSH and a mate's uncle had a Shadow so, after much persuasion, he said I could have a go. The idea was to use black and white slide film (not easy to get) and then sepia-tint it (this was in the days before digital) to make it look old, but I was going to wear me Simpson too.

We did the pix on the Chapel-en-la-Frith bypass with photographer hanging out the back of a van and, when we got up to the roundabout at the Chapel end, the owner said to me, 'Have you done 100mph yet?'

'Err, no', I said, 'I didn't want to thrash your immaculate and very expensive fifty year old motorcycle'.

'Sod that', he said, 'what's the point of riding a Vincent and not seeing 100 on the speedo - give it a thrashing, lad'.

:D

[shaggy696969]

NIce pics there Nik, ever thought about taking it up as more than a hobby ? I fell in love with a Norvin BSH ran decades ago gorgeous bike that was. Hope it's still about somewhere. :thumbu:

[Nik]

NIce pics there Nik, ever thought about taking it up as more than a hobby ? I fell in love with a Norvin BSH ran decades ago gorgeous bike that was. Hope it's still about somewhere. :thumbu:

Mitch's one? From a very early issue? That was sex on wheels. :)

[shaggy696969]

Mitch's one? From a very early issue? That was sex on wheels. :)

Sounds right I remember it had a split Kawasaki triple tank on it in one of the pics. Done a donut on it in the pics.

[Nik]

Sounds right I remember it had a split Kawasaki triple tank on it in one of the pics. Done a donut on it in the pics.

Yep, that was the one. Gorgeous bike. :thumbu:

[Shifty]

That Norvin was (and still is) the best café racer/streetfighter I've ever seen in my opinion.

[floris]

Hope you've done a shoot of the two bikes at top :eek:

[rob]

wot he sed. :thumbsu: