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  • Re: RE: OT not bicycles, not tech

    From AMuzi@21:1/5 to cyclintom on Thu Aug 14 15:14:04 2025
    On 8/14/2025 2:55 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Thu Aug 14 14:35:50 2025 AMuzi wrote:
    https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/13/billy-joel-closing-oyster-bay-motorcycle-shop-20th-century-cycles/




    A Vincent Black Shadow from the 50's is worth a great deal more than "thens of thousands of dollars". I think that I saw ONE of them in person.

    Seem to range 50K up to 100K Sterling:

    https://www.carandclassic.com/cat/15/647/black%20shadow/

    or, over here, similar in dollars:

    https://motorcycles-for-sale.biz/sale.php?id=56166

    https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1955-vincent-black-shadow-3/

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    Andrew Muzi
    [email protected]
    Open every day since 1 April, 1971

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  • From AMuzi@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 14 14:35:50 2025
    https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/13/billy-joel-closing-oyster-bay-motorcycle-shop-20th-century-cycles/
    --
    Andrew Muzi
    [email protected]
    Open every day since 1 April, 1971

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 14 20:22:58 2025
    On Thu Aug 14 15:14:04 2025 AMuzi wrote:
    On 8/14/2025 2:55 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Thu Aug 14 14:35:50 2025 AMuzi wrote:
    https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/13/billy-joel-closing-oyster-bay-motorcycle-shop-20th-century-cycles/




    A Vincent Black Shadow from the 50's is worth a great deal more than "thens of thousands of dollars". I think that I saw ONE of them in person.

    Seem to range 50K up to 100K Sterling:

    https://www.carandclassic.com/cat/15/647/black%20shadow/

    or, over here, similar in dollars:

    https://motorcycles-for-sale.biz/sale.php?id=56166

    https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1955-vincent-black-shadow-3/




    Cars sold by Jay Leno go for typically TWICE what they are worth otherwise. I'm sure that they sane thing would happen with Billy Joel. And that would be from the highest end of the spectrum.

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  • From Roger Merriman@21:1/5 to AMuzi on Thu Aug 14 20:24:34 2025
    AMuzi <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 8/14/2025 2:55 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Thu Aug 14 14:35:50 2025 AMuzi wrote:
    https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/13/billy-joel-closing-oyster-bay-motorcycle-shop-20th-century-cycles/




    A Vincent Black Shadow from the 50's is worth a great deal more than
    "thens of thousands of dollars". I think that I saw ONE of them in person.

    Seem to range 50K up to 100K Sterling:

    https://www.carandclassic.com/cat/15/647/black%20shadow/

    or, over here, similar in dollars:

    https://motorcycles-for-sale.biz/sale.php?id=56166

    https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1955-vincent-black-shadow-3/


    My Grandfather had a Vincent as a young man, wasn’t terribly reliable if
    fast i believe he may have destroyed it in the end!

    He took an interest in my Dads Kawasaki Ninja was in many ways really silly bike for where they live! As it was heavy and couldn’t manage some of the hairpin bends! But it did shine on bigger roads.

    Roger Merriman

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  • From Catrike Ryder@21:1/5 to Roger Merriman on Thu Aug 14 17:34:07 2025
    On 14 Aug 2025 20:24:34 GMT, Roger Merriman <[email protected]> wrote:

    AMuzi <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 8/14/2025 2:55 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Thu Aug 14 14:35:50 2025 AMuzi wrote:
    https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/13/billy-joel-closing-oyster-bay-motorcycle-shop-20th-century-cycles/




    A Vincent Black Shadow from the 50's is worth a great deal more than
    "thens of thousands of dollars". I think that I saw ONE of them in person. >>
    Seem to range 50K up to 100K Sterling:

    https://www.carandclassic.com/cat/15/647/black%20shadow/

    or, over here, similar in dollars:

    https://motorcycles-for-sale.biz/sale.php?id=56166

    https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1955-vincent-black-shadow-3/


    My Grandfather had a Vincent as a young man, wasn�t terribly reliable if
    fast i believe he may have destroyed it in the end!

    He took an interest in my Dads Kawasaki Ninja was in many ways really silly >bike for where they live! As it was heavy and couldn�t manage some of the >hairpin bends! But it did shine on bigger roads.

    Roger Merriman

    I had 3 Trimphs back in the day. I either had two Daytonas, 500cc and
    one Bonneville, 650cc or vice versa. They were much better handling
    than the Yamaha Virago 1100CC I had later on. The Kawasaki Scrambler
    (it was 2 cycle, a 250 or 350) was better handling than all the
    others. I loved that bike. There were a couple of others that I don't
    remember well enough to talk about.

    --
    C'est bon
    Soloman

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