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RE: Rear suspension

To: "'Stephen F. Doherty'" <doherty5@pacbell.net>
Subject: RE: Rear suspension
From: "Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 10:26:33 -0600
Thanks for the reply, Stephen. If Dave Matson was ever in Redstone Arsenal,
that must have been his. Of course, if he wasn't there-- whose bike was it?
Surely there couldn't have been TWO three- Vincent engine bikes built, could
there?

Regards, Neil   Tucson, AZ

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen F. Doherty [mailto:doherty5@pacbell.net]
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 10:52 PM
To: Albaugh, Neil
Cc: 'rgribble'; land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Rear suspension


Neil,
  I forwarded your message to a Vincent mailing list.

Here are the three replies I've received so far:

"Dave Matson did a mock up in the 60's? of a 3 Vincent engine bike.  It was
done for
publicity purposes only."

"That was Dave Matson. At the time he didn't realize the rules limited you
to two engines."

"There was a picture in STOP [the newsletter of the Chicago Section of the
Vincent Owners Club],
maybe in the late '70's, of Dave Matson, posing on a 3 Vin engine bike.
I don't remember if it said that he ever ran it, though."

SFD

"Albaugh, Neil" wrote:
> 
> Grib;
> 
> Back in '61 I was in the Army at Redstone Arsenal, AL. Someone-- I never
did
> find out who-- had a LSR bike under construction there and it sounded alot
> like the layout you are thinking about. It had three Vincent Black Shadow
> engines in tandem and I think everything was chain- driven.
> 
> Anybody know who built that bike or if it ever ran on the salt?
> 
> Regards, Neil  Tucson, AZ
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rgribble [mailto:rgribble@carolina.rr.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 12:45 AM
> To: Nafzger; Keith Turk; land-speed@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Rear suspension
> 
> My solution for that would be four in-line independent turbo Busa'
engines,
> one of each mounted at and driving each wheel.
> I think I'll sketch it out tomorrow and work up a budget. Ah, maybe not!
> 
> Obviously those "needles" you guys drive have inherent space problems that
> dictate little to no suspension. Plus, I've seen so little being a rookie
to
> LSR and B'Ville, I don't know what's been tried in the past. My comments
> were aimed at KT's ride.
> Grib
> "Do what others Won't and you'll do what others Can't for the rest of your
> life"

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