I’ll let the pics speak for themselves – with added comments. Here we are, 14 years after I acquired the bike… So much scheming, brain-storming, scouring for parts and information… So many lines of enquiry that ended in vain – but so much fortune and luck too! The realisation of many many years of hard …
A moment of assembly this early in the process of restoration is a cause for some elation. The rear rim was exchanged for the correct 20″ item early on in the project and now the refurbished drums have been bolted to the hubs and offered up to the forks and RFM. The above photo features …
We have discovered that the front hub features a metric bearing setup. Due to a shortage of materials during the Korean War, metric bearings with an o/d of 47mm were fitted in place of the standard Vincent item. So this item is not the original hub as 2751 was completed and shipped prior to the …
Grey Flash models employed 10-bolt rear hubs as per the Black Lightning and road-going Black Shadow. The flanges and drums are bolted to the hubs using special high tensile bolts and locknuts sans washers. These early locknuts are of the correct pattern and feature fibre inserts. Although we have some in 5/16″BSF we do not …
The rear hub features a hollow axle which passes through the hub and is secured by a nut at each end. These nuts sandwich the hub/bearings and brake plates together allowing the entire rear wheel assembly to be installed into the rear fork as one unit. This is also the method employed for the front …
Grey Flash 2751 