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Think I've fallen in love...

Postby Gibson335 » Sun Nov 24, 2013 4:11 pm

Took recently-widowed mate for mood-boost trip to the fair city of Excreta to wallow in bike porn at Bridge Motors: Bee-YOO-tiful '53 Black Shadow as pretty as when it was first wheeled out from the factory. £35k restoration costs mentioned but if I had the money in the piggy-bank I would have parted with it in an instant. Phworr....

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Postby cornishflat » Sun Nov 24, 2013 4:58 pm

Beautiful indeed. Was it for sale or for show, if for sale how much of my my lottery money will I part with should I......
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Postby Gibson335 » Sun Nov 24, 2013 5:13 pm

To be honest, don't know. It's obviously now a permanent fixture (pic not too good because they've sealed it in a glass case to stop the likes of me running our sticky fingers over it); £35k restoration costs would suggest a figure considerably in excess of that for a retail price, but on the other hand they're not building too many '53's nowadays so scarcity value and cachet means that it'll probably end up as a pension fund asset that's locked away and never used again. Last of the real bikes in my view, and simply drop-dead gorgeous. Sigh.
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Postby ned1 » Sun Nov 24, 2013 9:34 pm

The 1947/48 Prototype Black Shadow with my Father on the right
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Postby Grip Fast » Sun Nov 24, 2013 10:12 pm

Both great pictures. Almost worth the 400 mile round trip to Exeter to see that Vincent. Beautiful!

My earliest memory of drooling over a bike was standing with my best mate, at the bottom of the Hilltown in Dundee studying every detail of a Black Shadow that was parked up.
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Postby Steve1200S » Sun Nov 24, 2013 10:18 pm

Think they'd pump the front tyre up! :wink:
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Postby boxerscott » Fri Dec 20, 2013 1:06 am

ned1 wrote:The 1947/48 Prototype Black Shadow with my Father on the right
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Photo with relative touch, brilliant! How did they get that lump on to the work bench?
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Postby eyore » Fri Dec 20, 2013 8:30 am

Probably in individual parts, the bigger question is how did they get it off............ :?:
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Postby ned1 » Fri Dec 20, 2013 9:23 am

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Postby Corvus » Fri Dec 20, 2013 9:27 am

boxerscott wrote:
ned1 wrote:The 1947/48 Prototype Black Shadow with my Father on the right
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Photo with relative touch, brilliant! How did they get that lump on to the work bench?


They're from Yorkshire.

One of em lifted the bike in the air, while the other one put the table underneath it.
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Postby Merecat » Fri Dec 20, 2013 12:07 pm

Corvus wrote:
boxerscott wrote:
ned1 wrote:The 1947/48 Prototype Black Shadow with my Father on the right
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Photo with relative touch, brilliant! How did they get that lump on to the work bench?


They're from Yorkshire.

One of em lifted the bike in the air, while the other one put the table underneath it.



And now they're both standing and trying to remember why!! :D
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Postby Corvus » Fri Dec 20, 2013 12:16 pm

Merecat wrote:
Corvus wrote:
boxerscott wrote:
ned1 wrote:The 1947/48 Prototype Black Shadow with my Father on the right
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Photo with relative touch, brilliant! How did they get that lump on to the work bench?


They're from Yorkshire.

One of em lifted the bike in the air, while the other one put the table underneath it.



And now they're both standing and trying to remember why!! :D


Yeah that's about right for Yorkshiremen!

They're looking a bit stumped.

Geddit?

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Postby The Teutonic Tangerine » Fri Dec 20, 2013 4:37 pm

Jumping on the bandwagon I would just like to say I once had a go on Comet the 500 single based on half a Shaddow engine or was the Shaddow two Comet engines? Anyhoo! It was an opportunity I was not going to miss. The bike had been assembled over the course of two years from a basket of bits by a work collegue. He got it running (but not sorted) on the Tuesday before he emigrated on the Thursday (the buyer was collecting the bike on the Wednesday). I went over on the Tuesday evening and had a three miles ride just to say I had ridden it. The throttle response was incredible, the kickstart was terrible other than that I don't remember much aout it as this all happened in 1982 but it was a treat.
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Postby ned1 » Fri Dec 20, 2013 5:03 pm

It was the Comet my Farther raced,
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Postby Corvus » Fri Dec 20, 2013 6:45 pm

The Teutonic Tangerine wrote:Jumping on the bandwagon I would just like to say I once had a go on Comet the 500 single based on half a Shaddow engine or was the Shaddow two Comet engines? .......


I seem to recall that legend has it that the single cylinder came first. The idea of a vee twin was an accident of two drawings of the comet on clear film being overlayed.

According to my memory's version of legend!

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