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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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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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A visit to "Fellside Cottage", the home of Ivan Rhodes...Mr Velocette to so...
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.Traveling home to Sydney I made a "dog leg" via...
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A visit to "Fellside Cottage", the home of Ivan Rhodes...Mr Velocette to so...
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....A great...
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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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