Egli/Vincent

[worntorn]

yep the purple is ugly.

I'm thinking the wheel treatment is going to be powder coated satin black for the wheel centre and raised centre part of the rims then polished aluminium for the remaining outside flat portion of the rims. Where the black meets the polished aluminum I'll apply a 1/8" wide red stripe. This treatment is to pay respect to the original Vincent which had chrome wheels with black wheel centres and a thin red stripe where the black met the chrome. The centre portion of the al. tank, the fenders complete and the rear cowl will all be the same red, probably Ferrari Red.

The Vincent was considered the first "frameless" design in that the engine did the work of part of the frame. This lightened the bike up a lot. The Egli frame is connected to the engine in the two top locations plus the struts at the rear of the spine go down to connect at the swing arm pivot location, so in that way it is more rigid than a Standard Vincent which only connected to the spine frame in the two top locations.
I agree, the Vincent idea looks a bit unusual at first, but that was Vincent, they broke the mould in every way. They also broke the speed records at the time and still hold many records!
To this day the record for World's fastest unfaired motorcycle is held by a Vincent.