Subsequent manufacturers have purchased the brand name and applied it to their own limited production motorcycles.
At a cost of £1355 it was expensive and more than any other production motorcycles of the time.
Their 1948 Black Shadow was at the time the world's fastest production motorcycle.
Uphill's achievement was the first time that a production motorcycle had ever passed the three-figure mark from a standing start.
It was the quickest production motorcycle at the time.
No V5 engines are currently available in commercial production motorcycles.
Priced at £1,355 it was the most expensive production motorcycle of the time.
At the time the Black Lightning was the fastest production motorcycle in the world.
Producing about 90 hp, it was the fastest production motorcycle of the era.
Hub-center steering systems have only appeared on a very few production motorcycles, and not with any great success.
