Hang on a minute.... I realise Bob Trigg was involved in motorcycles but to say he was the single person who designed the 1960s Commando as implied is a little further from the truth. It wasn't him who designed the Isolastic engine frame, it was ex Rolls Royce's Stefan Bauer..... and as for the Elsie, this was a road going version of their TZ 350 grand prix winning racing machine.People who changed motorcycling – Bob Trigg motorcycle engineer
Never in the world of motorcycling, did so many different bikes owe so much to one manwww.visordown.com
I realised he worked for Yamaha and had some input into the FZRs but didn't know about the elsies.
Who really cares that the Honda would run practically forever and that the Atlas would loosen your dental work and need constant fettling? Probably someone who prefers riding to wrenching.
The causes of that demise are varied and complex, but mostly self-inflicted. People buying scads of CB 750s were just a symptom, not a cause.
You've hit the nail right on the head, after spending hours and hours in the shed, sun, rain and snow, wrenching the spanners on my Atlas, I do prefer riding, and nothing will persuade me to obtain another Atlas when I could be enjoying myself riding. There are more reliable bikes out there.
I would have to disagree on that statement. the frame needed bracing in several places. if you put on an oversize rear tire or tried to push it near its limets it got pretty nasty.The McCandless Bros would be proud of the Z1 frame.
Scrounged the swap meets at Barber and Mid-Ohio for missing parts. Just missed a stock exhaust.
To call a CB750 a piece of shit shows how deluded you are. I've owned seven Norton twins & two Honda CB750s. I like them all & in their own ways there are ALL great bikes, but I just prefer Norton twins.
A frame designed for a 55 hp single cylinder in a 350-lb package was a little sketchy with an 80 hp 4-cylinder in a 500-lb package, not to mention a 140 hp Superbike racer of the day. Nobody knows those limits until they're exceeded. The MkII version of he big KZ had the frame issues addressed at the factory.
