8 Brough Superiors to be auctioned next year after being found in a barn: Rare Nottingham-made motorcycles worth £2 million found in dusty barn | Nottingham Post
Don't you just love the way the press report things ? "Can fetch up to £300,000" - but the record price for one is £286,000... And how far did they go to get someone to comment? Is the local Hardly Dangerous dealer next door to the Nottingham Post's office? Still wouldn't mind one, if someone offered to buy it for me...
This sold for $434000 at the Las Vegas classic auction last week. A true example of over restoration imo but it was owned by an American. Andy
Although most Vincent Rapide twins were finished in black enamel, "Chinese Red" was offered as a factory option; a bike with provenance to show it was red from new would naturally command a premium price. Vincent singles were likewise mainly black, but some were finished in grey (John Surtees owns a grey one).
Now, I'm no expert on Brough motorcycles but, if you buy the one in the pic then you might want to increase the pressure in that front tyre just a touch. I think it will improve it's cornering and straight line stability.
Don't start going on about Harleys in Nottingham, you'll have the Queen's Road resident all worked up again! :wink: The Nottingham Post is notorious for inaccuracies & inconsistencies. But I've seen similar with a number of regional newspapers. Perhaps it's part of their 'character'?
The chain is the other (right) side. Vincents had sprockets both sides of the rear wheel in different sizes, so you could turn the wheel around and alter the gear ratio; you didn't need any tools to do this. The one in the photo is large, probably to suit a sidecar.
I don't know if it's just me but I find the seat area of the Vincent really unattractive. The seat sticks right up and with a huge space under it. Ugly!
Back in 1978 I was a young airman based at RAF Bruggen in Germany. My Sgt lived just down the road from me in a married quarters patch that was 30 miles from Bruggen. He used to give me a lift to work in his sidecar attached to a Vincent Black Shadow. I thought that it was just an old bike in those days.
