Thank You
Before and After:
The bike is nearly done. It still needs tuning, paint on the tank and stripes on the wheel rims. But now seems like a good time to thank all the people who helped me get the bike to this state. I tried to do as much as I could, but could never have finished the project without the help of many folks in Australia, the US, England, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Latvia, Ireland, and the Czech Republic. Some gave information, some donated or traded or sold parts, some did work, and some taught me how to do a task. And a couple of them are no longer with us, but I’m glad to have had their help on the Veloce.
A very big thank you to:
Peter Allen
Leon Mitchell
Keith Hamilton
Robert Elliot
Howard Burrows
Paul Milner
Dave Fisher
Andrew Repton
Dave Masters
Richard McKenney
Greg Summerton
John Quirke
Adrian Lockrey
Ian Jennings
Ivan Rhodes
Rob Saward
Doug Lyon
Jim Hammant
Juris Ramba
Bill Phelps
Chris Quinn
Charlie Taylor
Chuck at the Saddleshop
Richard and Peter Rosenthal
Ron Farthing
Bill Mantle
John Jennings
Chris Woolley
Greg Ditchfield
Jiri Horice
Manuel Parra
Matt Gil
Derek Dorresteyn
Dave Miller
Joop Gerdes
Stuart Towner
Dennis Hodges
Tad Yenawine
Don Clancy
Kim Young and the kids
And I’ve probably forgotten a few others too. Thank you.
Occhio Lungo 
Hi Pete
Well done, the end is in sight and it has been very interesting to see your progress along the way. Thanks for sharing your progress at each stage, we all learn from each other. Your thank you list is like a who is who of the vintage world and more than half the people on the list have helped me over the years. Long may the vintage fraternity flourish.
Are you going to the pier in Brighton?
John
Hello John. Well, you were a great help for this project! Without the photos you shared, and the parts you sent me, the bike never would have turned out as well as it did. I still need to copy your method of creating a throttle stop screw on the B&B slide, but I was able to emulate your work on the mudguard valences, the lamp mount on the forks, the D-shaped tubing in the frame, the brake pedal stop, etc, etc. If all goes well over the next month or so, I’ll be seeing you at Epsom Downs and we can ride into Brighton together! 🙂 And then Banbury and the Irish too.
Wow. Big congrats on the engineers dream. I’m fooling with my Excelsior rear hub. Chain still makes funny popping noise against the repop starter chain front sprocket. I’ll be looking at alignments carefully next.