Well, nothing for Velos?
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Spent last week working on this bike at the IOM.
We were short on horsepower !! Bill Swallow did a 82 mph lap in practice and only 96 mph through the speed trap. You have to be a good rider to lap the IOM at 82 mph average with a top speed of 96 mph!!
In the race it stopped after 1.5 laps with a stripped mag drive sprocket. Pretty sure we will try again next year.
We were short on horsepower !! Bill Swallow did a 82 mph lap in practice and only 96 mph through the speed trap. You have to be a good rider to lap the IOM at 82 mph average with a top speed of 96 mph!!
In the race it stopped after 1.5 laps with a stripped mag drive sprocket. Pretty sure we will try again next year.
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Where is their information on the works DOHC Velocettes ? A friend still has one of two that Frank Mussett brought back to Australia after racing as a works rider in the UK. I watched him win a race on it at Darley in Victoria in about 1959 - it is a 350. I believe the 500 is still in Sydney somewhere. I've seen other Mk8s, however not a DOHC one. Am I imagining that there were DOHC works Velocettes ?
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Look here for factory DOHC. Indeed it seems most ended up in Australia.
http://velobanjogent.blogspot.ro/2009/0 ... e-say.html
But the Eldee which we were racing is an Australian 250 cc special. Originally built in the early 1950s (Eldee 1) and then a second bike built in the 1990s - Eldee -2. Eledee -1 is in the Australian motorcycle museum. Eldee -2 is the one we took to the Manx - but with a new replica engine built by Nick Thomson. The original Eldee -2 engine was also at the Manx and it was displayed at Velo rally during the meeting.
One useful thing was that due to the publicity about the bike Les Diener's grandson visited us in the Island and was able to talk about the construction of Eldee -2 as he sat looking over his Grandfather's shoulder. He trained as a mechanic and then went to university to graduate as an engineer now working in aircraft design. So he should be able to do a few calculations for the team!! He also took photos for his grandmother - now 90 years old.
http://velobanjogent.blogspot.ro/2009/0 ... e-say.html
But the Eldee which we were racing is an Australian 250 cc special. Originally built in the early 1950s (Eldee 1) and then a second bike built in the 1990s - Eldee -2. Eledee -1 is in the Australian motorcycle museum. Eldee -2 is the one we took to the Manx - but with a new replica engine built by Nick Thomson. The original Eldee -2 engine was also at the Manx and it was displayed at Velo rally during the meeting.
One useful thing was that due to the publicity about the bike Les Diener's grandson visited us in the Island and was able to talk about the construction of Eldee -2 as he sat looking over his Grandfather's shoulder. He trained as a mechanic and then went to university to graduate as an engineer now working in aircraft design. So he should be able to do a few calculations for the team!! He also took photos for his grandmother - now 90 years old.
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And there was at least one Mk8 KTT DOHC bike. Ridden in some races at least by Freddie Frith to win the 1949 World Championship.
http://classic-motorbikes.net/wp/veloce ... race-bike/
http://classic-motorbikes.net/wp/veloce ... race-bike/
