jolly7
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Norton
About time some might say but signs are the Norton is on the pace, possible 130mph lap at current progress,speedtrap times right up there, in fact Cam is looking like being in the embarrassing situation of trailing the bike he considered too uncompetitive to race.
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03-06-2016, 07:31 AM |
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Stacky
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RE: Norton
Good to see Davo coming to grips with the beast, he proved last year with 131.5 lap that he's got the pace.
Might be they had a bit of a breakthrough and sometimes riders just gel with a bike....
Either way GO DAVO!!!
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03-06-2016, 07:35 AM |
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numptydad
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RE: Norton
(03-06-2016, 02:55 PM)KypDurron Wrote: You guys keep saying Norton but I think you mean Aprilia.
Ah, this old chestnut - I refer you to -1907- Norton twin cylinder - Harold Rembrandt Fowler, 1st twin cylinder class,Peugeot engine, several early TTs won by machines using JAP engines , 250 lightweights won by variously named machines fitted with Rotax engines, in fact what is known as the proprietary engine was the mainstay of racing, before factories began to make their own .
i am of the opinion that Nortons ceased to be Nortons once the Bracebridge Street factory closed, but the name lives on.
Speaking personally, I have often wished that someone like John Bloor would buy the name, and either make a success of producing motorcycles with that name, or simply retire it, thus stopping the continued prostitutiion of a famous name, (with a little alleged fraud on the way ).
Matchless is now a clothing brand, and the AJS name is a sticker on some Chinese built Easy Rider lookalike with silly little engines.
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03-06-2016, 07:47 PM |
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jolly7
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RE: Norton
So on that logic, i drive a flash BMW not a little Mini ?
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04-06-2016, 09:06 AM |
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jolly7
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RE: Norton
Jolly 7, Forgive me, that was a typically humourless post, sorry
Dave
ugh ? it was my obviously pathetic attempt at an analogy not humour, the humour is calling a 17.17 bike a laughing stock
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04-06-2016, 01:24 PM |
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