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Offline Lucky_Lou

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Vincent Black Shadow
« on: January 10, 2010, 02:50:32 PM »
Just watching Top Gear (BBC) their racing from London to Edinburgh
Vincent vs Jag XK120 vs  The Tornado a A1 Pacific class Steam Train all 1940,s brilliant program again.
The car and bike are going as near to the route of the Great North Road as possible as it was in the 40,s apparently the Vincent was good for 125mph the fastest production bike untill the 70.s
Lou
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Black_Shadow
« Last Edit: January 10, 2010, 03:16:33 PM by Lucky_Lou »
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Offline Rob Valdez 79 R65

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Re: Vincent Black Shadow
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2010, 03:21:43 PM »
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It would be nice if BBC streamed it on a web site, some day.
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Offline Lucky_Lou

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Re: Vincent Black Shadow
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2010, 03:44:51 PM »
cannot find this one yet ittll be on the website before long i would think heres the bolivia special......pretty good
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pm34y
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Re: Vincent Black Shadow
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2010, 11:34:35 PM »
Those bastards pretty much have my dream job.
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Offline Lucky_Lou

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Re: Vincent Black Shadow
« Reply #4 on: January 11, 2010, 09:13:03 AM »
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Those ba**ards pretty much have my dream job.
the series has been running for 14 years and gets better all the time.
If youve not seen the "Red Neck" challenge have a laugh.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/topgear/videos/index.shtml?cat=more_challenges&id=72
if you scroll down the page theres the US "road kill" challenge
Lou
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Offline MrRiden

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Re: Vincent Black Shadow
« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2010, 11:04:50 AM »
Brilliant and clever show. Get it on the dish here. The scooters in Viet Nam show from last season or before was hilarious!
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Re: Vincent Black Shadow
« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2010, 03:34:25 PM »
Ah, bummer. "Not available in your area."  Seems I'm on the wrong side of the Pond.
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Offline Lucky_Lou

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Re: Vincent Black Shadow
« Reply #7 on: January 12, 2010, 04:06:49 PM »
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Ah, bummer. "Not available in your area."  Seems I'm on the wrong side of the Pond.
Try searching through a UK server.....
http://www.google.co.uk/
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Offline Semper Gumby

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Re: Vincent Black Shadow
« Reply #8 on: January 18, 2010, 10:20:59 AM »
My wife downloads UK stuff all the time.  I'll ask how she does it and post here when she gets home tomorrow.

She uses something called "torrent".


(i *want* a vincent)

I talked to tech support (my wife) and what you need to do is get a UK proxy server in the UK (google: uk proxy or free uk proxy) and route you downloads through that site.  This way you fool the BBC site to thinking you are in Britian!

Good luck!
« Last Edit: January 18, 2010, 10:30:28 AM by Semper_Gumby »
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Re: Vincent Black Shadow
« Reply #9 on: January 18, 2010, 11:29:51 AM »
A proxy server site should work ok for you at home but may not at work depending on your employers web filter. The latest web filter software can detect and block them - thankfully as proxy sites used to be the bane of my life and the students best friend when it came to bypassing our web filters at school.
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Re: Vincent Black Shadow
« Reply #10 on: January 19, 2010, 05:33:26 AM »
I've used a website called eztv.it to watch shows not available in OZ

topgear is listed at

http://eztv.it/shows/275/top-gear/

you'll need to know how to download torrents

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Re: Vincent Black Shadow
« Reply #11 on: January 19, 2010, 05:28:16 PM »
When I was at school and Vincents were still built, they were often known as "the plumber's nightmare". Small (250 cc) ride-to-work bikes were called "grey porridge". When Japanese superbikes arrived they became known as "rice-burners". Now they are usually called "plastic rockets". And my father's generation simply called a motorcycle a "grid".
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