A site for Velocette material, other occasional motorcycle, banjo and jazz related stuff and motorcycle and automotive instrument information.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
The layout of some prewar motorcycle race circuits....from one of my small scrapbooks......
From some of the scrapbook filled with cuttings from the several UK motorcycle magazines, "The MotorCycle" and "MotorCycling" that I have collected...done as a labour of love by motorcycle enthusiasts pre WW2.... I've selected to feature the layout of some of the racing circuits in Europe that riders and machines that often grace these pages competed at..... They are not in any order..... I've featured some of the pictures that accompany them in the scrapbook...the quality is poor, despite my scanner being able to get a reasonably viewable item. More of a curiosity, but some history that needs to be shared with others.... Left click on the images to enlarge them....
The French Grand Prix at the Dieppe circuit...
One of my scrapbooks from the 1930's...owner and creator unknown......
Acknowledgement of items used in this Blog from my archive...
I often feature items from older Motorcycle magazines, including photographs and other drawings, cartoons etc in my Blog. Where possible I acknowledge their source. These items are often from "MotorCycle" and "MotorCycling", and the current copyright holders are Mortons Motor Cycle Media. I thank them for their use.
Where other sources are used such as Fox Photos, Keystone Press and other now defunct press agencies from the UK and elsewhere I attempt to acknowledge their source.
You are free to use any item from my Blog, but PLEASE give credit to the source.
Search This Blog
A photo I like....!
BMS in 1961 aboard a road test Velocette Venom Clubman Veeline
DQs Thruxton in the 1971 Castrol 6 hour Race, Amaroo Park,Sydney.
My co-rider, Dennis Fry, looking the consumate racer,probably the last to use a pudding basin helmet in competition...
DQs Thruxton in the 1971 Castrol 6 hour Race, Amaroo Park,Sydney.
DQ aboard his VMT during the first 2 hour stint, pictured in Brabham loop
VMT458 at the 2012 Australian Velocette Owners Club National Rally at Bundanoon, NSW.
DQ reunited with VMT458 after 32 years
VMT458 at the 2012 National Velocette Owners Club Rally at Bundanoon, NSW
Dennis Fry re-united with VMT458, DQs co-rider in the 1971 Castrol 6 hour race
Ready for another US Velo Ride
My 1962/1948 KSS/Scrambler Velo road bike, built in Canada in 1976 and imported into Sydney, Australia, May 2012 for use in local Australian Velo events......
DQ on his Velo Special
Riding in the Napa, Cal. area May 2010
DQ on his second KSS engined RS framed Velocette
Velo Thruxton at speed
North American Velo OC logo used for one of the Club's annual rally and rides
I've motorcycled since the early 1960s...both in Australia, the USA,NZ and UK to where my long suffering wife and I rode a 1972 BMW R50/5 motorcycle via the overland route through Asia in 1974. Careers in Animal Physiology and Automotive Instruments and now finally semi retired into music...as a banjoist in Trad./Dixieland Jazz bands.
Life for me is very interesting......
No comments:
Post a Comment