I’m doing both, I bought the last remaining F1 castings from Andover Norton plus a boat load of other parts like housings and eccentric shafts. I’ve made billet gearbox housing as the cast F1’s are finished. So I’ll build a few replica bikes. I really like the NRV that has all the modern things like fuel injection that I’m more into. I’ve also bought 90 meters of 7020 billet triple beam to make my own frames. It’s the same type used by Spondon to make the NRV and Duckhams rotary frames and Mark Walker from MK Motorsport uses it. My replica and new frames will be triple beam. ive got a few RSV4’s and that’s been my plan to use the frames before the unobtainium triple beam became available for my own builds. it on the boat to Australia now should see it in time for Christmas
yes that’s me, won bike of the show at the all British day and asked to ride it to the stage. Long story but basically not enough power for the rollers to start the bike so moved it to a place we could start it. Amal carbs, electric fuel pump and leaking needle and seat filled the overflow hamster bottle that sat over the top of the headers. Once it it let go and boom up it went. it was a 20 second burn didn’t do that much damage but all I could see was I phones and not fire extinguishers This was the bikes second outing and the previous mechanic who looked after it thought is was ok to have the fuel pump direct feed to the carbs, The hamster bottles was a very stupid place to put it. anyway it’s sorted now along with some other crazy things that were done to the bike. I returned to the show a year later that’s the bike on the checkered plate better than it was when I first got it.
Thought you were fairly cool considering you had a blazing bike in your arm pit! Like the fact you had a Triumph shirt on!
I’ve still got a load of Triumph’s they are part of my carbon bike and turbo history. the only thing that bothered me holding the bike was that I hadn’t filled it up to the top it was half full and that’s not good in a fire. I’m not one for running so it made sense to stay with the bike, working out what was the best side to let it down was also on my mind. running a show that had no fire extinguishers was a lesson learned by the organisers. I had a 2kg powder extinguisher next to the bikes on display. I had my turbo speed triple out on display with the Norton’s
Hey @RaceComp, this latest release from Ryan has some interesting history, but totally skims Norton’s success... you might wanna update him on the continued motorcycle development too...
