Chris
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Hi Acrotel
My friend sold his Drainpipe to the National Motorcycle Museum. The frame & parts came out of the workshop. (back door)
I met at the Stafford show in 2004 when I was displaying the Drainpipe on the Norton Owners Club stand a gentleman who raced a Drainpipe with the Classic Racing Motorcycle Club, in the 80s. At the same show I met an Italian man who said he owns the Monza record braking bike.
Mr Robinson designed the frame he also had a hand in the MK3. If you sit on a Drainpipe you will not believe how narrow & comfortable it is. It is a Mk3 with no waist. Ray Pickrells favourite bike. (he signed it for the owner)
Copies were made & raced in Australia but I seem to remember Classic Racing saying they were not to original design ( were they scaled from photographs?)
The MK3 is good Acrotel but the MK4 is better. My Mk3 has clamp on front tubes where as the MK4 has a bolt in Ladder. The only other difference is the top tubes the Mk4 are wider. Keep ending up with tanks that don't fit!!!
If you do a search you will find lots on the Drainpipe.
Chris
My friend sold his Drainpipe to the National Motorcycle Museum. The frame & parts came out of the workshop. (back door)
I met at the Stafford show in 2004 when I was displaying the Drainpipe on the Norton Owners Club stand a gentleman who raced a Drainpipe with the Classic Racing Motorcycle Club, in the 80s. At the same show I met an Italian man who said he owns the Monza record braking bike.
Mr Robinson designed the frame he also had a hand in the MK3. If you sit on a Drainpipe you will not believe how narrow & comfortable it is. It is a Mk3 with no waist. Ray Pickrells favourite bike. (he signed it for the owner)
Copies were made & raced in Australia but I seem to remember Classic Racing saying they were not to original design ( were they scaled from photographs?)
The MK3 is good Acrotel but the MK4 is better. My Mk3 has clamp on front tubes where as the MK4 has a bolt in Ladder. The only other difference is the top tubes the Mk4 are wider. Keep ending up with tanks that don't fit!!!
If you do a search you will find lots on the Drainpipe.
Chris