Fun times
The Morini Riders’ Club track day at Cadwell Park in Lincolnshire has been running for 35 years and for whatever reason, has always attracted good support from the Velocette Owners’ Club. Basically, there’s a nice synergy and correlation between the Velos and the Morinis – not only are they fairly evenly matched speed-wise but it seems that many Velo owners are also Morini keepers, while even more Morini men have had Velos in the past.
One such chap is Pete Morgan, now an uber-Morini-ista, but formerly the keeper of Velocettes. When I’d suggested the genesis of this feature to Paul Emmerson (Morini Riders’ Club track day co-ordinator and also credit manager for Mortons, publisher of The Classic MotorCycle) he came up, right away, with the name of Pete.
So Pete and I swapped a few emails and formulated a plan of sorts; basically, we’d ride our own bikes in the morning then swap machines after lunch. Pete had never ridden a KTT (his Velos were later, swinging arm pushrod jobs) while I’d never had the pleasure of riding a
