25 Of The Best Motorcycles No One’s Ever Heard Of

5 Velocette Thruxton

The Velocette brand was finding it hard to compete with the Japanese producers; it already had a great bike known as the Venom produced. The Venom was a single, and during the 1960s there were many twins in production in Britain and Japan so Velocette came up with the Thruxton. Velocette had financial problems and the designer made a racing kit and modified the Venom which resulted in the Thruxton. The Venom was already reliable, had great handling and was a good racing bike, and so the Venom was a better version of it having a top speed of 120 mph and great handling. Unfortunately, the Velocette firm collapsed and only close to 1100 of these wonderful bikes was produced.