Velocette Viceroy

[JackyJoll]

Some confusion with the LE, perhaps?

Fighting crime is a confusing business.

[David]

There was a police bike that used most of a viceroy...the deemster. It had about 4 buckets of added ugly.

The DMW Deemster wasn’t a Velocette.

It had a Viceroy motor and tranny.

[David]

Which for the edumaction of the masses was a flat win 250 2 stroke with ashaft drive to a rear mounted gearbox...which is why they handled betterer than side hung Lambrettas and Vespas et al.

[JackyJoll]

It had a Viceroy motor and tranny.

Gosh- apparently some of them did and I didn’t know that.

Some of them didn’t, which was the limit of my Deemster knowledge.



Anyway, the cops didn’t half get some shit bikes inflicted on them!

[JackyJoll]

Which for the edumaction of the masses was a flat win 250 2 stroke with ashaft drive to a rear mounted gearbox...which is why they handled betterer than side hung Lambrettas and Vespas et al.

“Handle better” means different things under different circumstances.

I sat my Part 1 test on a Vespa 100. It was never a hard test, but the scooter made it embarrassingly easy. I could have done two figures of eight between the cones set out for a figure of eight manoeuvre.
You had to brake and stop with the front wheel in a box. I had an eight inch front wheel; the other guys had trail bikes with a huge front wheel that would hardly fit in the box at all.

[David]

Well...the pretty nuts arrived....cycle thread nog whit or whatever....spin on easily and silkily.



I would have been happier if one of the oiled nubian virgins had delivered them....

[Yorick]

Well...the pretty nuts arrived....cycle thread nog whit or whatever....spin on easily and silkily.



I would have been happier if one of the oiled nubian virgins had delivered them....

Noggin's in hospital

[David]

GWS Noggers...though i am not sure she qualifies on any of three criteria......

[JackyJoll]

GWS Noggers...though i am not sure she qualifies on any of three criteria......

Do you think the lass might not be a Nubian?

[iansoady]

Just to steer us (slightly) back on track I bought a 9/16" x 26 Cycle tap & die from Tracy tools to tidy up the front wheel spindle & nuts on my Fanny-B. Arrived the next day and less than £20 the pair. I'm sure they'll come in useful for the back wheel......

[crust]

Crying out for an LC motor in there

[KungFooBob]

Crying out for an LC motor in there

A 500LC.

[David]

Crying out for an LC motor in there

A 500LC.

half a gallon of diesel and a firelighter.

[David]

Well....the club nut arrived, the following day from spares crew day....


it won't go further than a couple of turns on, whereas the polished by Oiled Nubian virgins with baby rabbits ones spin on easily. So that went on with the club one as a locknut. All very FT.
And the motor went in, having marked up TDC again and got connected up and after a fair bit of startering and fiddling...it ran, briefly.
I am dealing with poor fits on the exhaust, a carb that wants setting and has no choke, but it ran, and revved when asked, so we are getting into a region where there is a distant view of a properly running scootery thing......

[JackyJoll]

The old forum was fatally lacking in Velocette Viceroy stories.

[David]

Its odd how many places are....