Not a Norton but you'll like it

Danno said:
That's Erv Kanemoto, Nixon's tuner, standing with arms folded. Kanemoto later tuned Freddie Spencer to the 250 and 500 World Championships in the same year.
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Danno, I thought that also.

Not a Norton but you'll like it


Not a Norton but you'll like it


Not a Norton but you'll like it


Not a Norton but you'll like it


Not a Norton but you'll like it


Not a Norton but you'll like it


Not a Norton but you'll like it


Not a Norton but you'll like it


Not a Norton but you'll like it
 
Yes, but unless I win Lotto tonight...

Interesting that they got as much power out of that motor as my '13 Duc 848 Evo has.
 
Craig said:
View attachment 12252 M My Duc is a run of the mill ‘07 red ST3s , no BS one of best bikes I have owned or ridden .... got to love twins , especially L twins ....the older Nortons are great/fun bikes and I love them too , just a little different ,eh
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The ST is a great bike. The only downside to my ST4s was how heavy it was. I loved that 996 motor and it was soooooo comfy.
 
I’m thinking the ST3s is 450lbs dry almost exactly 500 ready to roll no bags/frames which is how I ride unless more than 2 nights ... at this point still doable for me ....
 
I was involved with Bob Brown when he first started racing Ducatis and I believed they would never be any good. He got Kevin Magee through his crash and burn stage and even owned that Imola Ducati which Ken Blake rode for Ron Angel. It was sold to a guy in Western Australia for $3000, then got sold back to the factory for a very big number. Bob Brown ran a business in Melbourne, servicing Ducatis. He once told me that no bill he gave his customers was ever less than $5000.
 
To pay for law school, I too sold all of my Ducatis: '72 750 Sport, '69 450 Desmo, '69 350 Desmo, '67 250 Diana with endurance tank/headlight, '66 high compression 350 "Diana," and a trailer full of parts. Most of it went into a container bound for OZ, the endurance 250 went to a collector in Japan. Thirty five years later, I probably have more lifetime hours on Ducatis than any other brand.
 
I agree on the call of cheating..... I thought the old wings were cheating by removing one side to get the motor out, but this...… is completely out of the park. Almost obscene to set the frame over the motor. Where's the work and misery in that I ask you?

Guzzi has been around and thinking outside of the box for a long time. I know where there's a Falcone that makes me cry.
 
In about 1980, a dealer in Melbourne offered me a 750cc Guzzi race bike on which a guy in the US was killed. Because of considerations about the torque reaction when you accelerate, I did not buy it.
That bike with the Suzuki triple two-stroke motor would be a real pain. Everything is times three. With a Kawasaki H1 or H2, you can change one barrel and head. With the Suzuk 750, your hand is never out of your pocket.
The only big Ducati I rode was an SD900 bevel. It handled like a bag of shit - too stable. It might be OK on a big race track such as Imola - but anywhere tight, it would be impossible. You would always be committed to the high line in corners, and that is where the really fast stuff lives. I have a friend who has a GT860 with the yoke offset reduced, it handles OK. But the SD900, you could jump up and down on it while it is cranked over in a corner.
 

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