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Sir Eddy Edward Bilton-Smith's Norton twins [died Sunday Oct. 28, 2012]
This ain't about other classic motorcycles nor just anything motorcycle related so leave in here with proper Norton twin focus. Sent me by Doug McQuire a long neighbor of Kenny Dreer and Sir Eddie in Oregon. hobot
http://s184.photobucket.com/albums/x93/ ... ?start=all
A lot of people have heard of the old Geezer,,, "Sir Edward",,, often
because of improbable stories and outright bragging about his feats of
engineering, machining skills and un-precedented racing skills both on the
track as well as building and fettling race machines,
I thought many on the other lists might like a gander at some vintage pix of
Sir Ed at speed at one of the many racetracks he once competed on,, in this
case Westwood BC Canada,
If you look carefully in a few of the pix he is racing sans googles,, yes
the blighter rode so fast they flew off,,
Also in another picture,, yep, thats the front wheel coming up airborne
coming out of a corner,
How many Norton twins can accomplish that? Well onto the Ton and power to
spare to bring the wheel up.
This wasnt a 750, this was a 650 Norton twin, One of the very first Norton
Manxman sold on the west coast of the US, Later Sir Ed bought a Manx single
rolling chassis and switched over the 650 twin into that presumably to gain
a weight savings,,
Eddy also drag raced and did quite well on this bike, and he also road raced
in California, Seattle Washington and his home track Portlands PIR Raceway,
at that time in the early 1960s was still on the original streets of the old
Vanport housing estate that washed away in the great flood, keep in mind the
main straight had a wooden bridge at the end of it and then you entered a
corner, Exciting stuff..
Doug, The internet annoyance.
50 YEAR OLD PICS OF THE BLOKE.,
<http://www.modernmotorcycling.com/Westwood/039-EdBiltonSmith/index.htm>
This ain't about other classic motorcycles nor just anything motorcycle related so leave in here with proper Norton twin focus. Sent me by Doug McQuire a long neighbor of Kenny Dreer and Sir Eddie in Oregon. hobot
http://s184.photobucket.com/albums/x93/ ... ?start=all
A lot of people have heard of the old Geezer,,, "Sir Edward",,, often
because of improbable stories and outright bragging about his feats of
engineering, machining skills and un-precedented racing skills both on the
track as well as building and fettling race machines,
I thought many on the other lists might like a gander at some vintage pix of
Sir Ed at speed at one of the many racetracks he once competed on,, in this
case Westwood BC Canada,
If you look carefully in a few of the pix he is racing sans googles,, yes
the blighter rode so fast they flew off,,
Also in another picture,, yep, thats the front wheel coming up airborne
coming out of a corner,
How many Norton twins can accomplish that? Well onto the Ton and power to
spare to bring the wheel up.
This wasnt a 750, this was a 650 Norton twin, One of the very first Norton
Manxman sold on the west coast of the US, Later Sir Ed bought a Manx single
rolling chassis and switched over the 650 twin into that presumably to gain
a weight savings,,
Eddy also drag raced and did quite well on this bike, and he also road raced
in California, Seattle Washington and his home track Portlands PIR Raceway,
at that time in the early 1960s was still on the original streets of the old
Vanport housing estate that washed away in the great flood, keep in mind the
main straight had a wooden bridge at the end of it and then you entered a
corner, Exciting stuff..
Doug, The internet annoyance.
50 YEAR OLD PICS OF THE BLOKE.,
<http://www.modernmotorcycling.com/Westwood/039-EdBiltonSmith/index.htm>
