He learns how Vincent and his workforce built such revolutionary motorcycles and the secrets behind the bikes’ amazing performance. Speed is Expensive follows Vincent’s 26-year-old grandson as he embarks on a journey looking for answers about his forebear’s amazing life and machines. Today, high-profile riders such as Brad Pitt, Ryan Reynolds and Jay Leno revere the bikes, and racing models fetch $1 million at auctions and in private sales.

He died in 1979 – the family fortune exhausted pursuing his obsession with speed. The bikes’ creator, Philip Vincent, never designed another vehicle which would go into production. Yet, just months later, the company pulled out of the motorcycle market. Their bikes took on the world – and often won – gaining more speed records than any other manufacturer during their brief production. In 1955, the firm claimed the ultimate prize: the outright world speed record of 185mph. These fast, revolutionary machines were produced by eccentric engineer Philip Vincent and his small team in war-ravaged England.

This documentary, narrated by Ewan McGregor, tells one of the most dramatic stories in automotive history – the rise and fall of the legendary Vincent motorcycle.

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