Son of Siredward
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Awesome Bikes Ken! Love the number 39 that was my dads and later mine!With the infamous Mr. Jags Norton on the left end. Can't remember who the rider was for that race.
Those were the glory years for a lot of us. This is a picture of our bikes in the pits at Daytona in 1984 for my first AMA Battle of the Twins races. The yellow production racer and the black wideline featherbed were my bikes, and the red Commando in the front was Chris Scott's (owner of Supertwins shop in North Hollywood) ride. Chris and I had trailered the bikes out from California on a small 3-rail trailer meant for dirt bikes, blowing out the 12" trailer tires multiple time on the way there and back.
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Fast forward a few years to 1990, and this is another shot of Nortons in a row at the Daytona AMA National. The two yellow bikes (including the ex-Jim Schmidt monoshock) are mine, the silver one belonged to my friend and racing buddy at the time, Mark Field, and the black one was Rob Tuluie's.
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By the end of 1990 the glory days for Nortons were pretty much over in AMA road races. This is a picture of the monoshock bike with it's third place trophy at the 1990 AMA National at Willow Springs. That was the last Norton to finish on an AMA road race podium. Rob Tuluie was riding the bike for me (he was way faster than I was). That's him with the bike, and his girl friend standing behind. The half a guy on the right is me.
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By 1991 AMA had cancelled the Pro-Twins (previously Battle of the Twins) classes, and AHRMA had taken them over. Nortons were always well represented in the AHRMA twins classes, and still are to this day.
Ken