Philip Vincent built the fastest and most glamorous motorcycles in the world - yet he ended his days in poverty. Some 40 | dG1fZkhTSUhYVlJITEE
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00:00 During the 1940s and 50s, Vincent set more speed records than any other manufacturer.
00:05 It proved that the Vincent motorcycle was the work of a genius.
00:14 The reason guys write songs about Vincents is because it's arguably hard to find a more iconic motorcycle.
00:22 The structure of the engine, that looks like that could take you to the moon.
00:28 It could lift the front wheel at like even 160 miles an hour.
00:32 The college master wrote a letter to my grandfather saying he's spending far too much time
00:40 playing about building motorbikes and not enough time in lectures.
00:44 The magic 150 seemed just out of reach and then Rowley stunned everyone.
00:54 He would ride without his leathers to be the most streamlined a human can be.
00:58 The guy said I can't really take it but you can ride with me on the back.
01:03 All right so I get in the back and of course since he's trying to sell the bike
01:06 he's going as fast as he possibly can.
01:08 Who was Philip Vincent? How did his machine set so many records? Sell today for millions.
01:15 The first bike in the world to sell for over a million dollars.
01:21 I've now had about 30 years continuous experience in the ignorance of human beings.
01:26 Few had risen so high and fallen so far.
01:30 They were there to make motorcycles and they forgot about making money.
01:34 The tragic thing was that accident because
01:38 he was a changed man.
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