Engine Punk

This man is going to buy something with two wheels and very soon This little bike caught our attention at Wiscombe Park. Most things in black and gold do but Pete had some cash burning a hole in his pocket (which has now become a Matchless single) and we began to have covetous thoughts about Velocette 250s. Of nearly square dimensions (78 x 78.5mm), the MOV is a rev-happy little chappy. According to Titch Allen in his splendid book The Velocette Saga , David Holmes developed his MOV to spin up to 10,000rpm and subsequnetly reduced the rev range to 8,500 to provide more useable power on the race track. It must be nice for the rider to know they're nowhere near the bloodline when they're ringing its neck. It would still do 100mph, and although it's a production bike, the Suzuki X7 was billed as the first ton up 250 when that was introduced in 1979. That would be 30 years after the MOV went out of production and - of course - the two bikes are not really comparable as on...