Glad you enjoyed it

Lucky guy

He got his first one for re-laying a hedge@@bikerdood1100 ........ as the Velo had been dumped there to fill a gap and to stop the farmer's sheep from getting on the road, obviously it took a bit of rebuilding, but parts were easy to get in the 1960's.

Indeed they did Later very famous for trials bikes of course

Oh I wasn’t riding hard at all The clutch didn’t fail because I was hammering it, it’s unfortunately an ongoing problem the guys thought they’d fixed, unfortunately not as it turned out

It is indeed

Age is just a number as they say To of my bikes are much older than me Although my wife is not 😂

Thanks Bit of a frustrating one, between bike and camera problems I was lucky to have enough usable material to be honest Stunning bike though

From what I’ve found the motor is spectacular The clutch a little less so

Cool 😎

Ha😂

True

It’s quiet enough 😂

No idea I was riding the bike at the national motorcycle museum maybe they rode the same bike I have no idea Haven’t seen it to be honest We recorded it on Saturday booked the ride out weeks ago so coincidence I would guess 🤷🏻

Did this bike belong to the museum? It is not the same machine I own and it is most surprising that both videos were released on the same day. Great minds and all that

@@DUR599 well a coincidence indeed. It is the museum bike , just noticed the classic bike channel video although I haven’t watched it yet myself. Obviously I have no idea what those guys get up to. I just shot mine and released it the following day. If I’d known I’d have waited as I expect people will more likely watch theirs Wonderful Collection of bikes you have by the way 👍🏻

That’s why we do the channel 👍🏻

Such is life I’m afraid

Had a thruxton vellocette ...nice bike but I should have got a 750cc Honda 4 lol but loved my vello

Naaa 😂

True

Oh both countries can make very reliable machines in my experience The bike is over 50 let’s remember Not too many Japanese bikes have survived so long

@@bikerdood1100 The first truly reliable bike was the Honda CB 750 at the end of the seventies. After some problems with the chain "tensioner" with the first model, fast solved by Honda with a kit. Before the Four none bike on the french market was truly reliable for range fast touring whatever the origin even the BMW reliability is rather a myth. On 1972 I bought from a friend who was working at the Honda importer, a Honda CB750 1969 (the very first one with the sand cast engine cases). The bike had 35000 km, I added 80000 km more in less than 3 years with just one clutch plus a lot of consumables (tires, brakes and chains were worn at very fast rate...and the normal consumption of ball bearings, rear shocks and fork rebuilding). The maintenance was constant but nothing hard. The cam chain was pretty worn with a lot of slash noise at the end. I sold it to a friend at almost 120000. He rebuilt the bike, and kept it. The bike is now 54 years old with more than 200000 km and it's an highly collectible as the 1969 model with sand cast cases is extremely rare. That was the first bike with what I has able to make Paris France to Hambourg Germany 920 km straight on highways with just the stops for refueling, one tension chain, and coffees for the driver in a total time of 9 hours. Such a trip was difficult to imagine with a lot of bikes in 1972-73. Honda made very strong models, I bought a Honda 750 VFR Carat 1990 brand new. I sold it at 125000 km in 2000. I did nothing except maintenance including ball bearings and normal items like disk brakes at 80000. In 1991 I had an urgency and made Paris Marseille 780 km all highway by night in less than six hours including stops without any problem, the tachometer being at 200 most of the time. An acquaintance bought it, and has it always. The bike, 33 years old, has now 260000 km with just one clutch. The engine has never been opened. He made a new epoxy paint of the wheels, made a great revision of the cycle and it's on the road again.

Well as the saying goes if you were right I’d agree with you But unfortunately The 400/4 like so many Hondas is a revvy gutless little thing You say Honda I’d say Cam chain I’ve had a lot of Hondas over the years good bikes but more reliable than the rest I’m not so sure I’ve pushed my share of Japanese bikes home in must say That’s not pub talk that’s real world daily rider experience no BS I’ve been let down by Japanese bikes of various makes at least as often as anything else Don’t deal in mythology on this channel

Well the bike itself was really good Well apart from the clutch of course I found the riding position and engine very good, even the GP carb was pretty good

The Triumph clutch was fitted as standard on the late A10s. I had a 1960 Super Rocket which had a Triumph clutch. If you want your A10 to stop properly, the late '60s 2ls brake as fitted to BSAs and Triumphs is the go. It needs the fork sliders with bolt-on axle clamps for full width hubs, and you have to fit the pre-1965 shorter axle. It's a really nice brake, strong and progressive.

Well a lot of motorcycles run interference heads Not too many hemispherical combustions chambers on post war bikes

It was only the first few mules, after that it was all open twisty roads where it was spectacular good. Unfortunately camera and bike problems conspired against showing much of the ride. She went like a train but after around half an our we hit a small town where the clutch problems became very apparent

@@bikerdood1100 Enjoyed your test run it brought back happy memories of many years back riding a Venom on all kinds of roads. The clutch setting on all Velocette's is a bit tricky. When properly set up they are very light and very smooth action.

Always had a soft spot for the LE

I agree for the clutch. A nightmare. Otherwise the Thruxton was a nice bike.

Better flick my thruxton in to neutral , cluth creep lol

Very true And when they did break you could usually fix it yourself And how much is it to service a modern bike ?

Well don’t know about that necessarily Love the looks of Velocette Thruxton Is definitely a looker though

@@bikerdood1100 As a teenage in the 60's them fishtail silencers never did it for me. Even though the Thruxton was reported to be a performer. I would love one now though! 👍

@@peterbennett4948oddly enough Velocette stopped producing the Fishtail pipes years before production ended so most of the sporty models didn’t actually leave the factory with them on Most were retro fitted later by people who liked the look I suppose and some probably asked for them to be fitted on delivery but not actually a standard fit in the 60s

@@bikerdood1100 Can I ask where you obtained your information? I've just checked original Velocette parts books and sales leaflets from 1966 to 1969. Apart from the scrambler and Vogue, they show or quote the fishtale silencers for the Venom, Viper, Thruxton and MSS

@@peterbennett4948 how strange A public demand thing perhaps, I have a late 60s article which also shows the fishtail ( Brooklands) can style silencer. Did their traditional punters simply not want the bike with more modern pipes I do like them myself but I know some thought them old fashioned back in the 60s Bike buyers a rather conservative lot at times it seems 😂

Tank is very punny So very American in that sense