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The Velobanjogent: August 2015
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A site for Velocette material, other occasional motorcycle, banjo and jazz related stuff and motorcycle and automotive instrument information. Thursday, August 13, 2015. The Velobanjogent's recent additional Velocette special. I've been a Velocette man since I was 18 and I'm 70 now and always had a Velocette or two in my shed.several years back my collection was finally reduced to two.a Venom converted from a Viper ( done by "others" and exchanged for the last of my Mk.8 KTT parts around 1996). Until sev...
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The Velobanjogent: March 2015
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A site for Velocette material, other occasional motorcycle, banjo and jazz related stuff and motorcycle and automotive instrument information. Thursday, March 5, 2015. The Jones mechanical Tachometer.one of the last maximum hand tachometers still around.all the service and calibration info from the factory.part 1. I've done numerous posts on them from my personal memory and large archive of literature and photographs of automotive instruments. What have I this time? The Velobanjogent is meeting up with s...
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The Velobanjogent: February 2014
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A site for Velocette material, other occasional motorcycle, banjo and jazz related stuff and motorcycle and automotive instrument information. Monday, February 17, 2014. A visit to "Fellside Cottage", the home of Ivan Rhodes.Mr Velocette to so many people worldwide.part 2. Well I'm back from a nice "pub lunch" at Ivan Rhodes local and back to "Fellside Cottage" in Bob Higgs wonderful creation, the Vulcan 1000cc V-Twin Velocette with Steib 501 sidecar. And below, the bike with Alec Bennett aboard after wi...
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The Velobanjogent: January 2014
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A site for Velocette material, other occasional motorcycle, banjo and jazz related stuff and motorcycle and automotive instrument information. Wednesday, January 22, 2014. A visit to "Fellside Cottage", the home of Ivan Rhodes.Mr Velocette to so many people worldwide.part 1. As I mentioned in a previous post, Mrs DQ and myself were in Europe in September 2013 and I took in Velocette friends in The Netherlands and Germany. Then off to "Fellside Cottage". The extensions at the bottom of the forks, soft sol...
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The Velobanjogent: The dynamometers at Velocette......
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A site for Velocette material, other occasional motorcycle, banjo and jazz related stuff and motorcycle and automotive instrument information. Monday, June 29, 2015. The dynamometers at Velocette. The dynamometers at Veloce Ltd. With thanks to Hedley Cox and Dai Gibberson. Over the years I've researched the dynamometers used at Veloce for the testing of their Velocette engines. They never had a rolling road type dyno so power at the rear wheel was never tested. I've formed the opinion that there was only...
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The Velobanjogent: May 2015
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A site for Velocette material, other occasional motorcycle, banjo and jazz related stuff and motorcycle and automotive instrument information. Monday, May 11, 2015. Jack Emmott's Book of Engines, The AJS 7R, Matchless G50 and G45. Back in 1964 Jack Emmott ran a business in the UK that serviced racing motorcycle engines, especially the AJS 7R, Matchless G45 and G50 and he published a little blue cover book on the servicing of them. I've scanned it for you and feel free to download all or part of it. DQs T...
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The Velobanjogent: April 2014
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A site for Velocette material, other occasional motorcycle, banjo and jazz related stuff and motorcycle and automotive instrument information. Wednesday, April 23, 2014. Velocette and a re-eneactment, come revival of the 17 years of the Castrol 6 Hour production race at the Motorcycling Victoria's Broadford complex, some 70 km north of Melbourne. The first event in 1970 saw a Triumph Bonneville 650 take the line honours with Len Atlee and Bryen Hindle the victors. I took a partial panoramic view of part ...
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The Velobanjogent: June 2014
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A site for Velocette material, other occasional motorcycle, banjo and jazz related stuff and motorcycle and automotive instrument information. Saturday, June 7, 2014. The Roarer re-created.Dan Smith in Vancouver, B.C.,Canada builds a second Velocette Roarer from scratch and The Velobanjogent called in for a "photographic look". And an prototype AJS V4 cylinder prewar machine. His latest effort is to recreate the one off Velocette Roarer. It languished at Velocette for years before being cleaned up and th...
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The Velobanjogent: The Velobanjogent's recent additional Velocette special......
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A site for Velocette material, other occasional motorcycle, banjo and jazz related stuff and motorcycle and automotive instrument information. Thursday, August 13, 2015. The Velobanjogent's recent additional Velocette special. I've been a Velocette man since I was 18 and I'm 70 now and always had a Velocette or two in my shed.several years back my collection was finally reduced to two.a Venom converted from a Viper ( done by "others" and exchanged for the last of my Mk.8 KTT parts around 1996). Until sev...
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The Velobanjogent: December 2014
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A site for Velocette material, other occasional motorcycle, banjo and jazz related stuff and motorcycle and automotive instrument information. Sunday, December 21, 2014. Christmas 2014.The Velobanjogent is off playing banjo for a week at the 69th Australian Jazz Convention. This time of the year, between Christmas and the New Year sees the Australian Jazz Convention held in a different city/town across Australia.this is the 69th, having started just after WW2 in 1946 in Melbourne Victoria. The Velocette ...