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I was just wondering what the difference was between there, and what frame was used on the Norvins?
grandpaul said:...whereas Tritons are built by staid, sane, purists?
hee hee
grandpaul said:Tell you what, Thrasher, post up a few pix of your bike and I'll try to be as harsh as possible.
(really, I want to see it; not sure I recall whether you posted pix yet or not)
grandpaul said:Ah, yes. The classic daily rider hooligan horse.
grandpaul said:Just bodge on a 67 nut with lots of loctite...
frankdamp said:Where did you get that idea, Jean? When I worked there you could almost guarantee the decision-makers would screw up in the most damaging way possible.
There are many other horror stories, but in reverence of my elders from N-V, I think I'll leave them untold! (notice, I didn't add "betters").
Jeandr said:Norton ALWAYS had the right idea :mrgreen:
Jean :wink:
frankdamp said:Where did you get that idea, Jean? When I worked there you could almost guarantee the decision-makers would screw up in the most damaging way possible.
As examples. I submit the "green ball" logo, which prompted a question on the Earls' Court show stand, "why are the turn signals green?" and the silver/orange/green color scheme of the show bikes whic led on reviewer to question wehther the whole thing had been funded by the Republic of Ireland, whose flag is white, orange and green! There was also our spectacular scooter, the Villiers "Fantabulous" and the misguided effort to import an awful Italian bike called the "Motom". That was a 50cc 2-stroke pseudo-scrambler with a 3-speed twist-grip shifter. I rode that thing to and from work for a couple of weeks and it got worse gas mileage than my regular works 650SS ride. The "Fantabulous" was a real turkey, too. The structure was an unbelievable cobble-up of welded sheet metal and weak tubular bits. You could feel the thing flexing as you went over road irregularities and it developed alarming directional instability at anything over 50 mph (which needed to be downhill with the wind and tide behind you).
There are many other horror stories, but in reverence of my elders from N-V, I think I'll leave them untold! (notice, I didn't add "betters").
Cookie said:Anyway my point is that a 650 Triumph is a good smooth engine, I can't compare it to a 650 Norton since I never had one around. The 750 Norton is faster but a shaker.
Put them together and you would have a good smooth bike that handled well and could have good brakes, no wonder so many did.