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As was said somewhere else recently, real Nortons were designed by Pa Norton...There was a apparently a trick to getting 80 mph out of a belt drive sidevalve Norton.Brooklands had quite a steep banking - they got very high up on the banking, and then swooped down (think Biggles in a dogfight here), and 80 mph was the result !.That number is no-where near right. Most HDs went out on Lend Lease, all over the place, and most can be accounted for in the records. Besides, comrade, they didn't want to pay for them. I've seen a 'taxi' in India that had been a WLA - there were once fleets of them apparently - after the engine had had its 9 lives in rebirths, it had been replaced with a large diesel, of the stationary engine kind. The odometer probably couldn't be trusted, but it musta said something like 3 million miles. Lots of military english bikes too - now somewhat revered...
As was said somewhere else recently, real Nortons were designed by Pa Norton...
There was a apparently a trick to getting 80 mph out of a belt drive sidevalve Norton.
Brooklands had quite a steep banking - they got very high up on the banking, and then swooped down (think Biggles in a dogfight here), and 80 mph was the result !
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That number is no-where near right. Most HDs went out on Lend Lease, all over the place, and most can be accounted for in the records. Besides, comrade, they didn't want to pay for them. I've seen a 'taxi' in India that had been a WLA - there were once fleets of them apparently - after the engine had had its 9 lives in rebirths, it had been replaced with a large diesel, of the stationary engine kind. The odometer probably couldn't be trusted, but it musta said something like 3 million miles. Lots of military english bikes too - now somewhat revered...
