Vincent.. again.. odd historical McGuffin on Vee-twin's gestation
for gearheads only.
(Linked by a quite different search topic., not even cycles.)
The tale of mixed-up drawings on a desk just seems.. universal? for creating an {{Idea!-balloon}} in wetware.
I'd always wondered how Irving thought up the various features--he'd already copped to the forked rocker-arm solution to keeping valves centered as they worked;
I thought he had had the twin in back of mind, all along.. Nope.
Also the stat: fewer than 11,000 Σ Vincent machines produced, yet the interest today is ~~ early Ferraris, maybe because of the beautiful, clean eye-candy form yet performance to match.
Any modern hi-tech design eclipses every spec. Will be interesting to see if many of them have the soul to attract as many fanbois as Irving's creation, in 30 years or so.
(Linked by a quite different search topic., not even cycles.)
The tale of mixed-up drawings on a desk just seems.. universal? for creating an {{Idea!-balloon}} in wetware.
I'd always wondered how Irving thought up the various features--he'd already copped to the forked rocker-arm solution to keeping valves centered as they worked;
I thought he had had the twin in back of mind, all along.. Nope.
Also the stat: fewer than 11,000 Σ Vincent machines produced, yet the interest today is ~~ early Ferraris, maybe because of the beautiful, clean eye-candy form yet performance to match.
Any modern hi-tech design eclipses every spec. Will be interesting to see if many of them have the soul to attract as many fanbois as Irving's creation, in 30 years or so.