Prescott Bike Festival 2015 pt3

The final selection of pics from the Prescott Bike Festival last weekend. 

Cracking pair of Excelsior Manxmans (Manxmen?)

Close up of the racing Excelsior Manxman.

Mad Max Race Team turbine powered drag bike. The world's
fastest naked bike and the fastest turbine powered too. The
turbine is a Rolls Royce unit designed for a helicopter.

Open megaphone on a Manx Norton. Exactly
as it should be.

Sidecar race bike giving it some on the hill.

Lovely Douglas trials bike making an ascent. It probably felt
fast to the rider!

Some great alloy fabrication on this Royal Enfield Crusader
based race bike.

Norton CS1. Very very envious!

Rare Pride and Clarke speedo on the CS1.

Some fine engineering has gone in to this Tribsa.

Tribsa close up.

The Flying Millyard. A rather amazing home brewed bike
powered by two top ends from a Pratt and Witney radial
unit. Look it up on youtube.

Close up on the Flying Millyard.

Nice period rally modded Lambretta in the bike park field.

Velocette Venom motor has been treated to all the bells and
whistles!

Tasty line-up of Velocettes in the bike park.

Ducati Mike Hailwood Replica.

Ducati 900GTS ridden to the event.

Ducati 250cc Monza Brochure

No expenses spared (!) single page multi-lingual brochure for the 250cc Monza model from Ducati.

Ducati 250 Monza brochure.

Ducati 48 Puma Moped, 48 Sports and 80 Sports Brochure 1962

Best known for sporting four strokes with their cams up top Ducati none-the-less produced a range of two-strokes from the fifties through to seventies. Here's a brochure dated November 1962 for the two stroke range that was imported to the UK.

Ducati two-stroke range brochure 1962 page 1. 

Ducati two-stroke range brochure 1962 page 2. 

Ducati two-stroke range brochure 1962 page 3.

Ducati two-stroke range brochure 1962 page 4.

Britax Hurricane Ducati 50cc racer 1955.

Brochure for the slightly bonkers Britax Hurricane 50cc racer. Britax were the UK importers for Ducati who at that time only produced the Cucciolo cycle attachment.

Britax sold the Cucciolo both as an attachment and as a complete machine in several formats. One was the standard cycle, a heavyweight open cycle frame with girder forks and drum brakes fitted. Then there was the Scooterette, the same thing but with a scooter-ish style body fitted. The piece de resistance was the Hurricane, aimed at the fledgling 50cc racing category.

Underneath that dustbin fairing were the same cycle parts as fitted to the standard and Scooterette models. The pedals were removed and a megaphone exhaust fitted. I'm not sure if any modifications were made to the engine bar the fitting of a megaphone exhaust. The Hurricane holds the claim of being the first production 50cc racer and 50mph top speed was claimed.

There is at least one survivor (though perhaps only one was ever made!) and it was in the Saltarelli Collection in Italy. The collection was split up and sold off by RM auctions in Monaco last year but the Hurricane did not feature in the lots so who knows where it is now.

There are some nice pictures of the Hurricane in action and at rest here.