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171.600MPH from a single cylinder Velocette at Lake Gairdner, South...
Wow....an email from Australian Velo Clubmember Stuart Hooper with the news that at the speed week trials on the salt lakes at Lake Gairdner in South Australia his supercharged single cylinder...
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More of DQ's negatives from the past, printed now for the first time...the...
I had an email months ago from an Italian chap regrettably whose name escapes me ...he was writing a book on the BMW R90S and was interested in photos of Helmut Dahne, I had some in an earlier post on...
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Some miscellaneous Norton items from the Velobanjogent's archive....
I'm not "one eyed" you know!Velocette is may be my main interest in motorcycling, especially at my age, but my archive holds lots of other interesting memorabilia...So I opened a folder "Norton" and...
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Motorcycling Australia in concert with Motorcycling Victoria have run a major...
I have to admit this last Easter weekend for me has been a pleasant surprise....I consider myself an active motorcyclist, but until Easter had only given the reports of the Broadford weekend motorcycle...
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Another look at the unsuccessful Velocette Viper Clubman 350 attempt on...
Guess most of you know that Velocette were the first to average over 100mph for 24hrs with a motorcycle....I did a post on the successful attempt using a 500 Velocette Venom Clubman...the attempt over...
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Possibly the last motorcycle race during WW2....
The 1939-1945 world war, WW2, was well underway for Australia when the Blue Mountains TT was held in the small town of Blackheath to the west of Sydney on Anniversary Day 27th January 1941.....I've no...
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The mechanical stroboscope..................
Stroboscopes would at first impression be considered to be operated by a neon or zenon tube and be electrical in nature....but this post is about a mechanical stroboscope I had for years...a...
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W.F. Omodei Pty Ltd, the motorcycle accessory business in Sydney that I...
As mentioned in previous posts, I've most of the trade catalogs and literature items from W.F.Omodei Pty.,Ltd, including the fascinating made up data books for the counter staff to ascertain products...
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1914 Veloce..... a view of a catalogue in my archive
Really early examples of early Velocette motorcycles, including their earlier name Veloce are rare.Veloce Limited were of course the manufacturers...Recently Pete Young who publishes his Occhio lungo...
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W.F. Omodei Pty Ltd, the motorcycle accessory business in Sydney that I...
In previous posts, I mentioned I've most of the trade catalogs and literature items from W.F.Omodei Pty.Ltd. who were a business in the motorcycle trade in Sydney, Australia from the 1920's up into the...
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The late Ron Kessing's Velocette parts auction......DQ auctions Kesso's...
I'd known Ron Kessing for a long time...in fact he only lived 1.3 km from me...sadly he passed on around 2000 aged in his early 80's.In later years I always rode one of my Velocettes past his house on...
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Photos from the past...Jim Day's been a close friend of mine since the mid...
Jim Day has been a close friend of mine since around 1956 when his family moved to a house next to where I lived in Maroubra, NSW- he's what I call my closest friend after my wife Judy.....And he is...
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W.F. Omodei Pty Ltd, the motorcycle accessory business in Sydney that I...
I previously mentioned in the earlier posts, that I've most of the trade catalogues and literature items from W.F.Omodei Pty.,Ltd, a Sydney Motorcycle accessory house from the 1920's up until the...
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A look at a 1938 Enots, Benton & Stone Ltd., motor fittings catalogue with...
Since my last post I've been in Europe and the UK visiting Velocette friends Carl Drees, Heinz Limbers, Gert Boll and of course including Ivan Rhodes and have much information to share with you, but...
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Another sad day for Motorcycling with the passing of Keith...
Readers of my blog will have come across the many posts I had done on Keith Bryen with a vast number of his and wife Gwen's personal photographs from the time the were members of that unique group of...
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Sorbo's recently restored BMW R69S 600cc twin.....
I've always been a bit partial to BMWs...well I've owned four, even buying one of them...a 1970 BMW R60/5 ...new....So when Sorbo a mate of mine sent over some pics of his latest restoration project, I...
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2012 "Back to Bundanoon" Australian National Velocette Rally...a pictorial...
An earlier posting under almost the same title"DQs off to the Back to Bundanoon Velocette Rally"I left Sydney for 8 days taking in the 2012 National Australian Velocette Rally. It was based in a small...
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The Velobanjogent visits Velo friends In The Netherlands and...
You know I'm rather ashamed to admit I haven't been back on a visit to Europe since the early 1990's...!!I had been to the USA since that time yearly sometimes twice yearly where having perhaps read...
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The KDT Velocette....Velocette's attempt to break into the Speedway machine...
Little is known of the KDT Velocette.... a variant of the KTT Velocette introduced by Veloce Ltd in late 1928 as a production racer motorcycle for the privateer rider.....In fact a glance through the...
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171.600MPH from a single cylinder Velocette at Lake Gairdner, South...
Wow....an email from Australian Velo Clubmember Stuart Hooper with the news that at the speed week trials on the salt lakes at Lake Gairdner in South Australia his supercharged single cylinder...
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