Classic bike drag sprint East Kirkby with Dick Craven
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- čas přidán 15. 07. 2016
- East Kirkby Straightliners drag-sprint meeting 19th June 2016 with Dick Craven and his two British Vincent -HRD super bikes If you like this video please pass this link to everybody how may be interest to see it. Thanks.............
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Awesome! Great to meet you the other day. Regards, James.
Great video, fantastic to see those bikes of my early childhood unleashed, most humbling to be modern sport bike and shut down by a 70 year old twin...
What a great garage. No wonder the bikes go so well.
Very enjoyable. Nice to see the old bikes....and the *ahem* mature riders having a bit of fun........... after all, fun is what it's all about.
Wow what a chap, hope I’m still playing at that age!
Just fantastic 👍🙂
Old geezers on old bikes having old fashioned fun.
You Brits know how to have fun! Love you all !
1/4 mile / 133mph / 10.6s - Sir, you are a legend! 5:50
Fantastic ... I know where I'd be spending all my time!
VINCENTS !!!! THE HOLY GRAIL !!!!!of ENGINES !!!!!g
Brilliant , Well done DC. A 50 plus year old British bike showing the plastic bikes how it is done.
not just any old British bike, but properly sorted frkn Vincents how sic is that! total eye candy. and seeing them smoke plastics like that. that man can ride! it's a beautiful thing
Way to go old man. Hats down to you. 133
10.6 @ 133 is bloody moving Sir , tidy 60 foot times too .
Fair play to you
Great to see the old ladies showing how its done....x Black Knight and Norvin owner..
This is UK... very nice.
Love the pit crew, years of experience there. Nice bike's pretty fast also.
Legend. Next stop Bonneville Salt Flats 👍
You got my like!
That's how you fucking ride! Modern isn't always better if you can tune!
I can smell that 'R' just by watching.
The Museum is well worth a Visit.
Waww💪🔥🔥
drag racing with men's bikes.
Did the Thumper do a 10.90 at 119mph ! ?
Fuck me, that thing shifted. It's not often I swear by the way. Apolz.
Hi, great video. You don’t happen to know anything about the 350 Velocette built by Dick that I mention in my latest video?
10.6 thats fast
Is that raf east kirkby
The look of the ricer racer: what? No electric starter?
Than sees the backwheel of the old gal disapear.....
The old bikes always had a self-starter: you started it yourself. No problems if the bike was kept in good tune. Even my lat bike, a 1981 Ducati 900 SS had no electric starter. Always started fist kick. Why carry all the extra weight of the starter and the heavy-duty battery?
@@brian.deller8313 Kick starting a Vincent is damned hard sometimes,so a little starting roller is just the ticket so you don't wear yourself out trying to get it light.
Rivet counters....shame the vid didn’t voice the owners and their toils with their machines...
Lol my old Mountain Bike has better brakes then that drag bike, scary!
The Vincent HRD road bike was renowned for having the most powerful brakes of all road bikes with a deceleration force of 1G fro 2¡30 MPH which was the comparison standard then for all road bikes. with four 7-inch drum brakes, no twin - leading shoes but the drums were mounted outside of the wheel so no drum distortion due to spokes. I rode one for 27 years mostly on the road but at the Vincent Club Race Days, the original brakes allowed me to out-brake even the Norton framed Vincents that had disc brakes (what a mistake that was to convert from the original) and I won three tropies at my first meeting at Cadwell Park all those years ago. In South Africa racing in the big Classic Motorcycle Club's racing the first year I won the overall trophy causing the competition to spend lots of cash on modifying their 750 cc Norton Atlasses, and other bikes with race kits. Even then I was only slowed by my Vincents' footrests, which were raised to the highest position, grinding on the road while cornering. But the Vincent was designed to be a very fast touring bike, not a racer. Happy days when I was young about 50 to 60, not 82 as now. But the memories are very important in your senior years.
@@brian.deller8313 Thanks for the information, i stand corrected....phone about to die but thks again Sur
@@brian.deller8313 Did the clutches feel like normal plate clutches to use? There are clutch shoes in there as well isn't there?