1up3down said:I had one of them, put it on my Combat, advertising claimed some 5 more hp.
I remember liking the looks and the extra power, but also the hassle of no center stand.
Don't know who Dr. Blair was, anyone else here buy one of those exhausts back then?
By the end of the nineteen sixties Gordon Blair's research work on engines had produced validated computer simulation programs which were helping design more powerful engines and providing theoretical and design insights that were giving the Queen's University team advantages over even the biggest factory motorcycle teams. In 1969 these research and design efforts began bearing fruit when Queen's rider Brian Steenson finishing second to the great Giacomo Agostini in the 1969 Ulster GP at Dundrod on a QUB 4-stroke bike.
xbacksideslider said:Yes, a respected name from the past.
For the Norton system, what were the dimensions, diameters, lengths?
Would be good to have them "out there" in the community.