Nortons at Phillip Island

It is all happening here, guys ! - And in perfect weather:

http://203.222.65.110/v3a/new/leaderboard.htm

Period 3 - Classic - up to 1962
Period 4 - Post Classic 1963 to 1972
Period 5 - Forgotten Era 1973 to 1982
Period 6 1983 to 1992

http://www.ma.org.au/index.php?id=387

When you say Nortons do you mean actual Nortons or Molnar Manx's McIntosh Manx's and the like?

Mick Neason actually has a Seeley commando there in the Classic/Post classic unlimited class. And I think Kenny Cummins might be in the Forgotten Era International Challenge . Dave Roper is also there. There is an atlas powered sidecar, and few featherbed Norton twins, and a couple of genuine manxes there somewhere, however I don't know how you can tell which ones.

Results of the International Challenge just finshed at 5.28 PM AEST

1 19 Shawn GILES AU 1982 Suzuki Kat. 1294 6 Leader Leader Leader 1:37.546 1:37.311 264
2 24a Brendan ROBERTS AU 1982 Suzuki Kat. 1260 6 1:37.687 1:37.469 265
3 99 Jeremy McWILLIAMS UK 1982 Harris F1 1250 6 .498 1:38.175 1:37.576 259
4 86a Beau BEATON AU 1978 Irving Vincent 1300 6 1.837 2.043 2.646 1:38.870 1:37.658 254
5 99a Steve MARTIN AU 1982 Suzuki Kat. 1294 6 11.437 11.889 12.666 1:40.266 1:39.082 253
6 121 Mike EDWARDS UK 1982 Suzuki Harris 1230 6 12.819 13.374 14.179 1:39.512 1:39.246 259
7 77 John McGUINNESS UK 1982 Honda Harris 1150 6 12.724 13.894 14.641 1:40.193 1:39.293 257
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Hope some of you guys got to watch the leaderboard. I'm going to try to get the meeting commentary streamed live simultaneously next year.

acotrel said:

Mick Neason actually has a Seeley commando there in the Classic/Post classic unlimited class. And I think Kenny Cummins might be in the Forgotten Era International Challenge . Dave Roper is also there. There is an atlas powered sidecar, and few featherbed Norton twins, and a couple of genuine manxes there somewhere, however I don't know how you can tell which ones.

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Easy, if they are Japanese they are probably original bikes, if they are British and last the race they are probably modern replicas.
Bit like the " Its my Grandfathers Axe" story, My grand father fitted a new head and my Father fitted a new handle.... :roll:

There were about three Norton Altlas engined bikes there - probably all had 750 commando engines.

acotrel said:

There were about three Norton Altlas engined bikes there - probably all had 750 commando engines.

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Were they "Atlas engine", or did they "have Commando 750 engines"?

It's got to be one, or the other.