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Well, today at school while spending my class time effectively I was looking at Bob Seger's website only to find this... Yet another famous Nortoneer.
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Found this photo of George Harrison when he was just a kid. In the latest rolling stone issue.
Can't tell what kind of bike it is. Engine looks a bit like a norton but the frame doesn't look like a featherbed. The faint triangle on the timing cover also hints towards a triumph? What is it?
Matt
Can't tell what kind of bike it is. Engine looks a bit like a norton but the frame doesn't look like a featherbed. The faint triangle on the timing cover also hints towards a triumph? What is it?
Matt
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57 ish T 100 in a Norton Chassis . possibly a T100R as its a spay port head , methinks .
The Cooper G.P. car engines came from Manxes, they wernt available seperately, thus
a number of new s/h Manx s were available sans powertrain .
If theres a lip under the bottom of the timing cover on the case , its ' big bearing ' 56 - 58.
Bearing houseing was evident externally , unlike earlier small timing side bearing engine .
The Cooper G.P. car engines came from Manxes, they wernt available seperately, thus
a number of new s/h Manx s were available sans powertrain .
If theres a lip under the bottom of the timing cover on the case , its ' big bearing ' 56 - 58.
Bearing houseing was evident externally , unlike earlier small timing side bearing engine .
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjTyyn5hVh8
better put this one on , The dude holding hands rode a Yellow 71 Roadster .
His missus once said , on the way back from elsewhere , they saw their mates lights ahead , comeing out of a corner.
Gassing it , they jumped a fence , oopsie , and landed in a paddock ( field) where she thought ' this is o.k.
Trundled along to a stop , and fell over .
Had six bends on it that day and clouted his head as theyd landed, The road had swerved round the valley , but seeing
the lghts ahead thetd tought it had gone straight.
He'd smashed his leg badly previous to the incedent pictured , draped across a P&T ute thatd done a U turn in the
morning traffic, as the Commando swung left with a grabbing back brake.
better put this one on , The dude holding hands rode a Yellow 71 Roadster .
His missus once said , on the way back from elsewhere , they saw their mates lights ahead , comeing out of a corner.
Gassing it , they jumped a fence , oopsie , and landed in a paddock ( field) where she thought ' this is o.k.
Trundled along to a stop , and fell over .
Had six bends on it that day and clouted his head as theyd landed, The road had swerved round the valley , but seeing
the lghts ahead thetd tought it had gone straight.
He'd smashed his leg badly previous to the incedent pictured , draped across a P&T ute thatd done a U turn in the
morning traffic, as the Commando swung left with a grabbing back brake.
There you go, a proper "hero". I like the movie stars but they're not hero's just for being rich enough to live a Lifestyle I can only dream about. Running into a burning tanker fire to save a 12 year old girl like that guy did? Not to be corny but that's hero statis. Thanks Matt.
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mattthomas4444 said:Found this photo of George Harrison when he was just a kid. In the latest rolling stone issue.
Can't tell what kind of bike it is. Engine looks a bit like a norton but the frame doesn't look like a featherbed. The faint triangle on the timing cover also hints towards a triumph? What is it?
Matt
Excellent photo of a very trick pre-unit Triumph that appears ready to race.
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grandpaul said:
Close finned alloy barrels so likely to be a Pre-Unit Tiger 100 engine.
Frame looks like a Featherbed and the fork sliders look like Roadholders. The rear hub looks like a Manx unit so it could be a Triumph-engined Manx?
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You don't get much at the Penny Arcade for a Norton.
The story in Oz about Roy and the Glasses, was that his wife died from a bike accident, and that he decided
to wear sun glasses from then on, so you couldn't see his red eyes from crying.
Fact or fiction.?
Never heard of him having bad eye sight though.
He is one or the few that I ever wanted to see perform live.
As for Clint, well he's the MAN.
The story in Oz about Roy and the Glasses, was that his wife died from a bike accident, and that he decided
to wear sun glasses from then on, so you couldn't see his red eyes from crying.
Fact or fiction.?
Never heard of him having bad eye sight though.
He is one or the few that I ever wanted to see perform live.
As for Clint, well he's the MAN.
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AussieCombat said:
Here is story of Roy's sunglasses and wife's death.
>>After leaving his thick eyeglasses on an airplane in 1962 or 1963, Orbison was forced to wear his Ray-Ban Wayfarer prescription sunglasses on stage and found that he preferred them. His biographers suggest that although he had a good sense of humor and was never morose, Orbison was very shy and suffered from severe stage fright; wearing sunglasses helped him hide somewhat from the attention.<<
>>He and Claudette shared a love for motorcycles; she had grown up around them, but Orbison claimed Elvis Presley had introduced him to motorcycles.[56] However, tragedy struck on June 6, 1966, when Orbison and Claudette were riding home from Bristol, Tennessee. Claudette was struck by a semi-trailer truck and died instantly.<<
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Hello, I know this is my first post but I have grown up next to a bright, yellow, 72 Combat Commando,I'm closer to this bike than my 2 older brothers...Anywho I was searching for pictures of Evel on this Norton. My dad recalls it was in 66'.Evel had a contract with Norton,That was Until he started talking about jumping the Grand Canyon on one.That's when Norton pulled the plug on the deal,The bike went to East Side Cycle in Tucson,Arizona. He said it was a slick bike with a beautiful heavy red flake on it. One day on his ride home a 56'4dr ford pulled out in front of him and turned the bike into a pretzel.Dad had a passenger and couldn't bail off the bike and he took the worst of it.tore all the legamites in his arms they fixed him 90% he lost movement in both pinkies ,But survived nonetheless.The bike did not. East Side Cycle bought the bike back after insurance paid it off.
He says he has some paperwork to back it up.You know how dad's are....but honestly I do believe him.He's lived a life that most of us could only dream about.
He says he has some paperwork to back it up.You know how dad's are....but honestly I do believe him.He's lived a life that most of us could only dream about.
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For me, there is no one more heroic in the history of motorcycling than this guy....
but it wasn't just the 26(?) IOM TT victories that set him apart.
He was no war hero, not in the everyday terms of doing unspeakable things at the command of the 1%. But his life and humanitarian work, picking up the pieces left by the destruction of war, will always be remembered with honor and love. In this life, we all write our own book. In my book, Joey was heroic in the truest sense.
but it wasn't just the 26(?) IOM TT victories that set him apart.
He was no war hero, not in the everyday terms of doing unspeakable things at the command of the 1%. But his life and humanitarian work, picking up the pieces left by the destruction of war, will always be remembered with honor and love. In this life, we all write our own book. In my book, Joey was heroic in the truest sense.
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Lucky enough to have had the banter with him & privelidged to have shared a start line with him
Lucky enough to have had the banter with him & privelidged to have shared a start line with him
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