Fishtail 304 - December 1999

FISHTAlL
Magazine of the Velocette Owners Club
December 1999 Number 304
CONTENTS
2 Editorial
3 Chairman's Chat
JimPlant
4 VOC's Pro
Colin Goodwyn
4 Club Diary
Colin Goodwyn
6 Overseas Report Alan Soutter
7 Centre News
11 Fishtail Mail
18 Five Speed Gearboxes for Velocettes
TonyAinley
19 Meriden Millennium Motorcycle Megaride
20 The North American Velocette Club's
Annual West Summer Ride
Sam Jowett
25 Spares News from VSL Tom Tunnicliffe
26 Poet's Corner
27 From a 1920's Veloce Publicity Booklet
28 AGM 2000
30 The Race as the Rider Sees It Ted Walker
33 To Squish or not to squish,
that is the question
Dave Shennan
37 Oh - Not that Clutch Again! C.P. Penny
38 The Unleaded Question -
A Final Word John Rowland
44 A Thruxton Turns Up John Hicks
46 Evolution David Prismall
47 Dorking Centre Annual Auction
47 Going Spare
50 Centrefax
52 Club Officers
Cover Photo: Bring 'em up right. The Chairman's elder daughter Helen
sitting on Tony Wright's Venom racer at Cadwell Park.
Taken in the mid 1980's, the bike eventually grew into the
infamous "Millennium Venom". Helen is now a historian and
an expert on the non-conformist Christian religions.
Editor Bryan Clarke