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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...
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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 (...
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The Velobanjogents off to the UK for 10 days taking in Velocette friends on...
Early tomorrow morning I'm on the 6am flight out of Sydney for Gatwick in the UK.... Gert Boll my good Velocette friend from Germany is meeting my inward flight after driving from Germany and together...
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The Velobanjogents back from the UK, then went to the week long 2015...
Aghh DQ you've been a bit slack with your Velobanjogent webblog.....been back from the UK and the 2015 week long Australian National Velocette OC Rally for over a month and no...
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Screen printing motorcycle speedometer dial faces-Long retired from his...
Its been some months since I did my last post early in December 2015 and the next major one I'm planning on the Velocette VMT is taking some time to assemble, so I decided to do an interim post on the...
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Velocette....Bertie Goodman...BJG...the managing director who rode & tested...
I've done several posts on Bertie Goodman, known to many as BJG and who was the last managing director of Veloce Ltd., manufacturers of Velocette motorcycles from 1905 to 1971.See..... Bertie Goodman...
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Reynolds....Reynolds Chains Limited.....a look at the drive chains used on...
Reynolds Chain Manufacturers, The Reynold and Coventry Chain Company Limited have been manufacturers of drive chains for motorcycles and other uses since before 1931...well that's the earliest...
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Eric Hinton....the Velobanjogent remembers a friend and a great rider from...
Last December was a sad day for motorcycle racing with the passing of Eric Hinton after a long illness.....The day of his funeral was a cool wet day in early summer in Sydney, but many of his friends,...
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Well this post has been a long time coming.....Apologies to my followers for this....But last month DQ joined up with Gert Boll from Germany, my Velocette research friend, in the UK for a 10 day tour...
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Merry Christmas from the Velobanjogent for 2017..
Merry Christmas to you all...Been under the pump as they say and my next post isn't yet ready.....soon...
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The Velobanjogents back in 2017 with a post on archival photos from a late...
Gary Ross was a lifelong friend of mine, pictured left at the Australian Velo OC "Fagan Park" display day in 2012 who had a passion for motorcycling in the 1920's & 30's, especially JAP engined...
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The Velobanjogent has many small folders in his archive and this is of...
Perusing one of my small folders in my archive I've come across some interesting photos, varying in quality, but super historic of road racing in Northern Ireland in 1945/1946, as it contains photos...
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The Velobanjogent's off on a different tack for this and several posts......
This post will feature advertisements from "Motorcycling in Australia", Vol.1 No.11, which is February 1948.....It will be part of a series from a selection of the many of these Australian motorcycle...
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Another post from early copies of Australian Motorcycle magazines , this from...
This second post features advertisements from "The Australian Motor Cyclist”, Vol.3 No.5, which is September 1938..... a continuing series from a selection of the many of these Australian motorcycle...
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A bit of instrument information from the Velobanjogent...The earliest use of...
I posed a question on a Facebook group site I run...Motorcycle speedos,tachos and other instruments .... the earliest use of a tachometer on a racing motorcycle...? I illustrated it with a French...
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W.F. Omodei Pty Ltd, was a business in the motorcycle trade in Sydney,...
I started with an earlier post on the Sydney business, W.F.Omodei Pty. Ltd with some of the many catalogues from UK and other countries trade houses, for Reg Hardy who was the manager for such a long...
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B.M.S...... Bruce Main-Smith , the well known motorcycle journalist..."has...
The Velobanjogent's "back in harness" as they say, albeit with a sad start...The passing of Bruce Main-Smith on 6th October 2018......Bruce Main-Smith, aka B.M.S to so many of us with an interest in...
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Mick Felder...the sad passing of a wonderful friend...
Larry Luce's email came like a bolt out of the blue... "I am frankly shocked and very sad to have to announce that Mick Felder has succumbed to pneumonia. He had been making good progress in...
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Mick Felder...the memorial service of a wonderful friend...
Last Saturday, 8th December 2018, Dave Smith with his family and some friends organised a memorial service for Mick Felder in his business premises.. Felder's Body Shop ( a panel beaters shop to those...
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Merry christmas from The Velobanjogent and a look at some pix of Dennis Fry,...
Dennis Fry is an over 80 year old Sydney motorcyclist who has spent his life riding Velocettes and racing Nortons.His racing career saw him ride in many circuits in Eastern Australia including Bathurst...
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A look at Maurie Pearson's mid 1950's photo albums of motorcycle racing in...
I don't really need an excuse to start posting on my Velobanjogent webblog as I've much more left in my archive to use...however this Coronavirus19 lock-down is as good a reason as any....Maurie...
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A second look at Maurie Pearson's mid 1950's photo albums... #2
As I said before, I've much more left in my archive to use...however this Covid-19 lock-down is as good a reason as any to continue....Maurie Pearson was a motorcycle enthusiast living in Sydney who...
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Another look at some of the pix from Morton's Motorcycle Media during DQ &...
If you look at the index to my blog over on the RHS you'll see posts I've made with my good friend Gert Boll from Germany... we first started this in 2015 then 2016 and 2017.... Each year we visited...
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1921 Velocette Catalogue with some of the pix from Morton's Motorcycle Media...
My good friend Gert Boll from Germany and I have made numerous archival trip to the UK, taking in Mortons Media Archive in Horncastle, Lincs & theis post is of a 1921 Velocette Catalogue from Gert...
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Searching my archive during this current Greater Sydney Covid19 lockdown I...
My digitised archive is rather large, although I look forward to the day I finally digitise all my remaining literature and photos....Sydney where I live is in another Covid19 lockdown & the time...
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