Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Velocette Viper is a British motorcycle made by Velocette between 1955 and 1968. Built using traditional methods and materials, it struggled to compete against more modern machines, so from 1960 the designers added new glass fibre enclosure panels, making the Viper one of the first enclosed production motorcycles. [1]
Velocette is a range of motorcycles made by Veloce Ltd, in Hall Green, Birmingham, England. One of several motorcycle manufacturers in Birmingham, Velocette was a small, family-owned firm, selling almost as many hand-built motorcycles during its lifetime as the mass-produced machines of the giant BSA and Norton concerns. [ 1 ]
[5] [6] [full citation needed] Another large capacity bike he hand-made is the Millyard Viper, built around an eight-litre V10 engine from a Dodge Viper. [7] He has built several Kawasaki specials (both two and four strokes) including a 2,400cc V12. Some of these bikes are on display at the Barber Museum, in Birmingham, Alabama, US.
Velocette LE: 149 cc 1951 Telescopic front fork Velocette Venom: 499 cc 1956 Sports model Velocette Viper: 349 cc 1956 Velocette Valiant: 200 cc 1956 Flat twin Valiant Veeline: 200 cc 1959 Flat twin Viceroy: 249 cc 1960 2-stroke scooter Velocette Voletta 192 cc 1961 Vogue 192 cc 1963 LE with a streamlined glass-fibre bodywork Velocette Thruxton ...
Velocette Viceroy; Velocette Viper This page was last edited on 23 August 2021, at 07:31 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
The early-version Velocette Thruxton, ridden by Motor Cycle journalist David Dixon and racer Joe Dunphy, won the 500cc category. [ 9 ] In 1967 two Thruxtons, ridden by Neil Kelly and Keith Heckles gained first and second places in the 500cc Production TT , the first time a production-machine event had been staged at the Isle of Man with Kelly ...
In 1913, the company first used the trade name Velocette for a small two-stroke motorcycle invented by Percy, and the name was then used for many later cycles as well. Production was halted by the outbreak of the First World War and the factory was turned over to the production of munitions for the war effort. [2] 1948 Velocette KTT Mk VIII ...
The Velocette KSS is a British motorcycle made by Velocette, a sports roadster in the “K” series of Velocette motorcycles with overhead camshaft engines. The “K “of the model's name was the next letter in the sequence of letters designating the model, after the Model H two stroke. (The letters “I” and “J” were skipped ...