Vintage AJS

This blog is about restoring vintage OHC AJS and Velocette motorcycles

Saturday, 6 June 2026

WELCOME to my blog about restoring vintage overhead camshaft AJS and Velocette motorcycles

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  Apologies to anyone that has come to this page expecting to see exclusively vintage AJS motorcycles .....scroll down the page a bit and ...

Completing the Build of KTT 305: Part 2 – Metal Finishing

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So far, I have stripped the bike, segregated all the bits into boxes and sprayed the frame, forks, petrol and oil tanks black – see previous...
Thursday, 21 May 2026

Completing the Build of KTT 305: Part 1

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It’s a few months since I finished the dry build of this bike (July 2025 in fact) as I acquired and rebuilt the DOHC 250 engine, put it in a...
Sunday, 3 May 2026

KTT 581: Engine Rebuild – Part 2 – Completing the Build

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The engine rebuild is now complete and it looks a bit happier than when I first received it a bit over a year ago. A few more details ...
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Richard Johns spent 45 years in the engine industry, starting in 1969 as a student with Perkins Engines. After completing a PhD at Imperial College, London in 1980 he subsequently worked for AVL in Graz, Austria, Ricardo Consulting Engineers and CD-adapco (now a division of Siemens) developing and applying Computational Fluid Dynamics software to IC engines before retiring in 2015. Since retiring, he spends his time restoring vintage motorcycles.
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