We already talked to you a while ago of the Irving Vincent, and the challenge that brought themselves in hand for this season in Motoamerica. We told you that they would speak and they are, because they have confirmed that they will take their beast to the Daytona Bike Week next year, to get all the rage of a bicylinder designed in 1936.
Yes, the story of the Irving Vincent is as crazy as it seems and you have to travel in time to put a context. Specifically at the beginning of the second quarter of the twentieth century, to the interwar period, when Vincent HRD was born. It was created in 1928 and remained active until 1955, becoming liquidated and, therefore, to disappear in 1959.
Well, in those years and more specifically in the 1930s, engineer Phil Irving created a longitudinal and air -cooled bicylide engine that today, after passing through the hands of Ken and Barry Horner, remains tremendously competitive.
It must be said that the original engine offered 45 hp, but these two Australian brothers based on using current technology and modern solutions have recreated the engine from scratch. So in a way there is something of “trap” on the one hand, and it is confirmed that if the benefits of almost a century ago were the ones, it was not because of the ideas, but because of the lack of resources and materials.
The Irving Vincent engine had the same design and 155 hp more …
The fact is that these two brothers have already achieved great results with an Irving Vincent engine, which has been progressing in performance despite the fact that its cubica is still 1,600 cubic centimeters. In 2008 it was able to reach 165 hp, and that figure increased to 200 hp for 2015.
They are now working on an updated version that is expected to take to Daytona and rises to 1,620 cc, although they also have a new motor prototype that will rise to 1,760 cc. In any case and beyond cold figures, what you have to think is whether the mechanics designed in the 30s of the last century is competitive with current machines. And the answer is yes.
And it is that in 2008 they managed to win in Daytona, a scenario they will return this year, but they have also achieved victories in Australian competitions and even in Sidecares with versions with greater or lesser power depending on the needs.
