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£1,500
1958 Velocette Valiant 192cc. Registration number SAJ 464. Frame number 1358/33. Engine number 200/1354.
Sold with the V5C and V5.
Launched in 1948, as the 'motorcycle for everyman' Velocette's LE addressed the criticisms most-often levelled at motorcycles - that they were noisy, dirty and needed special clothing to ride - achieving impressive levels of silence, comfort and practicality. A sports version of such a machine must have seemed improbable but nevertheless Velocette went ahead with the idea, launching the Valiant in 1957. More conventional than its predecessor, the Valiant boasted a tubular cradle frame, air cooling, overhead valves, twin carburettors and a four-speed, foot-change gearbox but was otherwise mechanically almost identical to the LE. Significantly more sporting than the LE, the 192cc, overhead-valve engine developed 12bhp at 6,000rpm and gave the early models a top speed of around 70mph. Visually, the sporting Valiant could not have been more different but the model was expensive for a machine that was not a full 250 and sales were disappointing. Production ceased in 1964.
SAJ, a North Riding machine, was owned by Peter Mann in 1980, then Philip Kirby in 1984 before our vendor bought it in 2016 with the intention of a retirement project that never happened. The engine turns over freely.
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