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HARMONIC BALANCE

“I’VE NEVER HAD A BREAKDOWN ON THIS BIKE, NOT EVEN A PUNCTURE”

THERE is something about the style of Vincent engines that makes them look so good and work so well in other frames that the hybrids become entities in themselves. The most popular is the elegant Norvin, the archetypal café racer based on the Norton Featherbed. Yet equally stylish and improbably functional was the Vindian, a Rapide engine in an Indian Chief chassis

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