 Mead & Tomkinson then came to fame in the mid-1970s with their specially designed endurance racer, nicknamed 'Nessie', (after the Loch Ness Monster because the bike was not a thing of beauty).The engines were conventional roadster engines, tuned for racing power.First they used a 1,000 cc Laverda Jota triple, and later a 1,000 cc Kawasaki four.