Twin-tastic!
My Velocette V-twin engine was now complete and fitted back into the original frame with a few tweaks here and there.
The beauty of early British motorcycles is that they were usually made with a separate gearbox that sat behind the engine in its own self-contained casing, referred to as ‘pre-unit’, and the clutch was housed in a pressed steel casing on the left side driven by a chain from the crankshaft sprocket, so fitting the modified engine was a relatively easy task.
I managed to find a set of early girder forks to replace the telescopic forks that would backdate the appearance to the 1930s, which was in my initial vision of how I wanted the bike to look. I stripped and rebuilt the wheels with new stainless
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