What a beautiful bike ! I’d ride that everyday in the summer if it was mine 😊

Dave is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to vintage motorcycles. It's impressive.

That's a bit of me . Nice too meet you ..kind regards Matt & Petrina. Precision Panel Craft. Ninfeld.

Great video, I learned how to manage my just purchased 1948 KSS Velocette.

Good Job dave.

Really good to see these bikes still living,nice work again👌👌

Thanks for that. Interesting and informative. Great machine. Hope the owner appreciates all the TLC you put in on this :-)

Dave its a joy to watch your videos on these old bikes master at work.

Well done, Dave. Especially not riding with a child-slicer front number plate!

@frederickbowdler8169

Ай бұрын

Yes they should be illegal.👍

LOVELY BIKE. LONG WINDJAMMER OILSKIN COAT, GOGGLES AND A LEATHER HEAD CAP . YOUR AWAY

Would love to make the lads jealous at the coffee shop with this one! Tough to get all those items sorted, congrats. '37 was a long time ago!!

@TheClassicMotorcycleChannel2

Жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍

What a wonderful machine.

The oil tank is correct and original, the KSS and KTS mk2 had froth towers. Also looking at your other video, the piston is absolutely the correct KSS piston. All KSS engines had compression plates supplied with them, notes in the instruction manuals explained what fuels to use if you took them out. You had to change the Oldham coupling to get the length of the vertical shaft right when changing the compression. When splitting the crankcases, it is very important to get the crankshaft endfloat accurately between zero and one thou. or you will get loud bevel noise as you have. Also it sounds as if the Oldham couplings are worn, they make a real racket if they are not a tight push fit. It does not look like a bitsa bike, it looks like a lovely and original 1937-8 bike.

thank you Dave for making a full length video apart from the shorts really do appriciate it

I want this bike

Lovely bike Dave, and as usual you did a great job of the recommissioning and repairs.. The oil tank with a froth tower is actually the standard oil tank for both the KSS Mk2 and the KTS Mk2 - 'K' stands for Kamshaft' (the original owners of Velocette were a German family) 'SS' is for 'Super Sport' and 'TS' is for 'Touring Sport' - Engines for the KSS and the KTS are basically identical (both have engine numbers prefixed 'KSS') and the frame on the Mk2s was based on the KTT racer.. The KTS has slightly deeper touring mudguards and 19" wheels, The KSS originally had 21" front wheel and I believe a 20" rear with more basic 'blade' type mudguards as standard. Both bikes have Heavy Duty 'Webb' girder forks and 'Miller' electrics and ignition throughout..

@neilfoddering921

5 ай бұрын

I’m not sure where the “K for Kamshaft” idea came from; German for camshaft is “Nockenwelle”. I think it more likely that the model designation “K” simply followed on from the model H two stroke, omitting “I” and “J” to avoid confusion. I have seen, on German products from the pre-war period, the capital “I” printed “J”. For example, the Zeiss Icarette cameras I own are stamped “Jcarette”, and the Agfa Isolette camera is marked “Jsolette”. I’ve recently written to the editor of “Fishtail” about this, but whether my letter will be printed in the next edition, I don’t know.

Lovely bike Dave Regards Andy

The steering damper is essential if you ride it on rough roads

I had a 1937 model back in the 60's / 70's. It may be the sound reproduction, but I don't remember mine sounding quite so 'whiney'. I fitted KTT mk8 cams, and it would do about 85 on the motorway! The piston should have been a 'slipper' type. Mine didn't have any barrel compression plates either, I think the C/R was about 9.5:1. The bevel drive was easy to adjust, (different size Oldham couplings were available to get the end float correct), and sealing was no problem using good quality string - it doesn't get that hot! My kick starter ratchet failed, so I removed the unit and replaced it with a needle roller bearing in a boss with a blanking plate (as per KTT). I started it by hand - bike on rear stand, full retard, 4th gear, and a good pull on the tyre, easy! Sold it for £400 in 1978, look at what they fetch now!!

Quirky as you say but what a marvel to hear and see. The probably unique parts and expertise of restoration demonstrate how valuable a fellow you have been and continue to enable others. Stirling work 👍👌

Thanks Dave for the lucid run through one of the lovely clammy Velocettes. I own a venom and ride her fairly regularly and understand the idiosyncratic clutch and the thrust pins and bearing and how one simply can't press the clutch lever and leave her in gear in traffic, if you want to have a life on those plates and bearings. All of this happens in Pune a busy city not far from Mumbai. I do agree the venom has no compare in the Brit bike world for its combination of speed and softness, like the poise of an eagle taking off a rooftop with the graceful whiplash of the tip of its wings breaking the roof tiles . Thanks again for the succinct run through

Your bikes always have the nicest idle.

Another cracking video. Please keep them coming. I learn something new each time I watch.

@TheClassicMotorcycleChannel2

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, will do!

Nice old bike. Sounds a lot better.

Nice work Dave, informative video - Thanks!

Won't tickover evenly on the propstand. If you need it to might be better with the Concentric? 😉

Love what you are doing just found you by chance . my first subscribe channel.

Looks like an old Leeds registration number.

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As it stands, the rear light is illegal for road use. One of the few retroactive pieces of legislation. You can (could) get an adapter to screw onto the end to replace the existing lens and bring the diameter up to legal size. Otherwise, it needs a later, larger light fitting.

Could you have made the concentric carb work? And what on the new carb was right?

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It might be my phone, Dave- but it sounds incredibly worn and rattly!

Sounds pretty rattly for a cammy. They should run smooth as silk, There is a bit more critical info on oil circulation. The oil tank is correct. To get a cammy engine spot on is hours and hours of work.