Worth this

[Rasputin]

Think any of our 11"s will ever be worth this much?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...3AIT&viewitem=

[petejw]

Thats a beautiful bike.
The xs could definately reach that amount in another
30 years in similar condition, only problem being there'll be so many xs's still around in that time that they wouldnt be considered rare.

[oseaghdha]

Those bikes are awesome.
I was at a vintage show in Carson NV, where a Vincent Black Shadow and an Ariel Square Four won First and Second. Don't recall which won First.

Anyway amidst all the trailer queens packing up, these two guys threw their saddle bags on, fired them up and rode on home to CA.

The Ariel sounded wicked.

[fredintoon]

I'm in a minority here

In my youth I actually rode a friend's '53 Black Shadow.
90mph in 2nd gear up Filton Hill (a 30mph zone) and slowing down to 28mph past the police station at the top.
But I gotta tell you, those bikes have their quirks and the modern trend to worship the bastards instead of ride them makes me smile to myself.
At a vintage rally I was at, a younger fellow brought his (admittedly quite nice) C-Shadow to the show'n'shine in a padded van and was telling us how a substrate of Chinese red lacquer really brought out the glow in the genuine gold leaf pinstriping on the gas tank.
Myself and a guy who'd ridden his own B-Rapide to the rally agreed that a man who'd replace Vincent's original gold paint pinstripe with genuine gold leaf was not as other men.
But my friend's '53 Shadow? He got eighty pounds (about a month's pay) for it when he traded it for a Ford car to get a back seat to court his girlfriend in.
Oh! For a time machine and a telephone!

[blue giant]

Ebay is offering low monthly payments!!!!!

I wonder how much per month and for how long????

[CatatonicBug]

If at $72,100, the reserve has not yet been met, I wonder what they have the reserve set at!! The guy who won the raffle and chose cash must've gotten quite a payout! I dunno... It may be a beautiful bike, and a real piece of history, but you'd have to be one heck of a collector to shell out that kind of dough for a bike. I paid less than that for my house!

[blue giant]

If at $72,100, the reserve has not yet been met, I wonder what they have the reserve set at!! The guy who won the raffle and chose cash must've gotten quite a payout! I dunno... It may be a beautiful bike, and a real piece of history, but you'd have to be one heck of a collector to shell out that kind of dough for a bike. I paid less than that for my house!

Exactly!!!!

[trbig]

458 lbs. dry weight
55 bhp
Top speed, stock: 128 mph out of the box

Anybody else have a hard time believing that? Downhill with a 60mph tail wind maybe?

Tod

[thewiz]

Think any of our 11"s will ever be worth this much?

Nope. Think not.

[Big Daddy Funk]

If they ever do go that high we probably won't be able to own them anymore

[fredintoon]

( top speed 128mph) Anybody else have a hard time believing that? Downhill with a 60mph tail wind maybe?
Tod

Hi Tod,
I don't have to "believe it", I actually rode one back when a Vincent was only a bike and not a sacred symbol. I chickened out at a little over 100mph and that bike still had lots of power left and one more gear to go.
Sure there's less power than an XS11 but it weighs an awful lot less and it has a smaller frontal area besides. And I was skinnier then, too.
The road test I remember said "top speed in 3rd 115 mph, top speed in 4th, not obtained."
I guess they ran out of runway while it was still accelerating.

[fredintoon]

[QUOTE=Rasputin;191742]Think any of our 11"s will ever be worth this much?
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Hi Rasputin,
not in my lifetime, no. But if once I'm gone my sons carefully preserve and crate my XS11 and wait a few decades they may be able to see a fair profit.

[tarzan]

I agree with Fred,
About 2050 they'll be worth a lot more than today.Probably wont be many left then.
I wonder if gas will still be commonly used then?