Hmmmmmm... There's a local shop that has one of these Rokons with no engine as part of his old sign, I'm sure he'd let me have it for $50; I've got most of a Norton engine in an old rigid chopper frame...
(the oil drips will be the easy part)
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The gauntlet is thrown-
by grandpaul » Thu Jan 28, 2010 1:05 pm
I've been challenged to build this by a friend who thinks it would be as easy as turning the photoshopped New Norton 951 prototype into my Blue monoshocker:
Hmmmmmm... There's a local shop that has one of these Rokons with no engine as part of his old sign, I'm sure he'd let me have it for $50; I've got most of a Norton engine in an old rigid chopper frame...
(the oil drips will be the easy part)
Hmmmmmm... There's a local shop that has one of these Rokons with no engine as part of his old sign, I'm sure he'd let me have it for $50; I've got most of a Norton engine in an old rigid chopper frame...
(the oil drips will be the easy part)
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Re: The gauntlet is thrown-
by swooshdave » Thu Jan 28, 2010 1:35 pm
You probably want to go into town, and find a up to date Jap Bike store,
With a full spares department, a clean workshop, and kean young mechanics.
And ask them if theres a Grumpy Old Bloke out in the Hills, who knows how to fix Real Motorcycles.
Matt
With a full spares department, a clean workshop, and kean young mechanics.
And ask them if theres a Grumpy Old Bloke out in the Hills, who knows how to fix Real Motorcycles.
Matt
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Re: The gauntlet is thrown-
by grandpaul » Thu Jan 28, 2010 1:39 pm
That looks like somebody is going to get hurt!
I messed up my shoulder BAD after high-siding over the berm of a local dirt track while drifting at high speed on a maxxed-out 110 3-wheeler.
I messed up my shoulder BAD after high-siding over the berm of a local dirt track while drifting at high speed on a maxxed-out 110 3-wheeler.
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Re: The gauntlet is thrown-
by swooshdave » Thu Jan 28, 2010 3:17 pm
grandpaul wrote:That looks like somebody is going to get hurt!
I messed up my shoulder BAD after high-siding over the berm of a local dirt track while drifting at high speed on a maxxed-out 110 3-wheeler.
Ye, because that Rokon looks SOOOOO safe.
You probably want to go into town, and find a up to date Jap Bike store,
With a full spares department, a clean workshop, and kean young mechanics.
And ask them if theres a Grumpy Old Bloke out in the Hills, who knows how to fix Real Motorcycles.
Matt
With a full spares department, a clean workshop, and kean young mechanics.
And ask them if theres a Grumpy Old Bloke out in the Hills, who knows how to fix Real Motorcycles.
Matt
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Re: The gauntlet is thrown-
by norbsa48503 » Thu Jan 28, 2010 3:41 pm
I think the first time I saw this was a post by Steve Striver the HOBOT many years ago. Any idea were or who did this? Norkon
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Re: The gauntlet is thrown-
by grandpaul » Thu Jan 28, 2010 6:54 pm
Yep, a buddy of mine, on Photoshop (as far as I know). Could be he found it and forwarded it to me..
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Re: The gauntlet is thrown-
by Jeandr » Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:27 pm
grandpaul wrote:I've been challenged to build this by a friend who thinks it would be as easy as turning the photoshopped New Norton 951 prototype into my Blue monoshocker:
Hmmmmmm... There's a local shop that has one of these Rokons with no engine as part of his old sign, I'm sure he'd let me have it for $50; I've got most of a Norton engine in an old rigid chopper frame...
(the oil drips will be the easy part)
Nice photoshop job. The Rokon is not very big so it's easy to see the Norton was shrunk to fit. Goes without mention that the Norton's huge power would just rip the gearbox and multiple u-joints to bits. I wish I had pictures of the worse Norton abomination I ever heard of, a snowmobile! Some nut had built this thing but the Norton motor was overheating beneath the bodywork so they had a duct throwing snow from the track onto the cylinder and head.Jean
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Re: The gauntlet is thrown-
by Cookie » Fri Jan 29, 2010 4:32 pm
Unless two people did the Norton snowmobile conversion I may have seen it too. My first thought was good luck starting a Norton at 20 below zero.
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