Lot details Registration No: TSY 204 Frame No: RS14476 Engine No: VM4129 cc: 500 MOT Expiry Date: None
Velocette's Venom, is thought by many to be a far superior machine to any other on the road, and they may be right. Others will say the damned things are far too difficult to start, awkward to maintain, old fashioned and list a host of other somewhat mythical faults and idiosyncrasies some of which are true, any of which will be overlooked or forgiven by a true Velo enthusiast. Idiosyncratic? Certainly! But the black (sometimes red, blue or green) and gold striped beauty flying past barking its unmistakeable exhaust note through that lovely massive chrome fishtail silencer are a sight and sound likely to turn many a hard nosed motorcycle cynic, as regards the Grt. Brit. M/c. Ind. in particular, into a nostalgic romantic. You will have guessed that your scribbler is a Velo fan. The 500cc Venom came into being together with it's 350 Viper sibling in 1956. At that time the MAC 350cc (ride-to-workhorse), Viper 350 (sweet sporty single underpowered for its chassis), MSS 500c (softly tuned comfy tourer), Venom 500cc and variants Clubman and Thruxton ( traditional big high performance singles) gave Velocette a range of machines capable of mixing it with anything the big boys could offer.
It's early history is not known but TSY204 is a Venom from the 1960 model year, purchased by the vendor in Maine USA around 1993 in very rough and incomplete condition. It was repatriated to UK in large lumps and subsequently restored at great expense, using much stainless and parts mainly sourced at Seymour's, by 1996. The machine is fitted with the desirable prefix 12 / R gearbox option and comes complete with V5 and VELO O/C dating letter.
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