The Vincent Rapide is widely remembered as one of the first truly modern motorcycles, it used foot controls for gear changes, it had cantilever rear suspension, it used the engine as a stressed frame member and was fitted with a 4-speed transmission.
As many of the Vincents saw time on the race track, special wheels were developed that were quick to remove and replace, the rear wheel was also reversible – allowing a rider to quickly change rear-sprocket ratios by flipping the wheel and loading the chain onto the sprocket mounted on the other side of the wheel.
1951 Vincent Rapide
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