IXXRA......The Home Of The Superblackbird

A mate picked me up today and took me up to the Norton factory at donnington

A tour round the Assembly building ( I say building because it was a private hospital and with carpet on the floor and a suspended ceiling not a lot has changed) the tour took about 1.5 hours by a knolagable mechanic all for the price of a donation


So 2 points I picked up on was
the engine that is used in there TT bikes Do you know what it is ?

Point 2 the clutch on there road bikes where is it from ?


Go on have guess not a Google

A good place to visit

Without google.....Engine "Aprilia RSV4"............. Clutch....Fook knows?

Engine- 1978 Yamaha FS1E
Clutch- Honda ride on lawnmower

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Remember the wankle....had the use of one for a few months ...in gulf oil livery...
the team sponsor was john player
Gulf oil, my client at the time co-sponsored...

Manufacture in those days was at shenstone....

Don't know if they ever TT,d that bike... Probably Just the British championships....

Can you remember who road them????

Regards
Aj

aj wrote:.

Remember the wankle....had the use of one for a few months ...in gulf oil livery...
the team sponsor was john player
Gulf oil, my client at the time co-sponsored...

Manufacture in those days was at shenstone....

Don't know if they ever TT,d that bike... Probably Just the British championships....

Can you remember who road them????

Regards
Aj

Haha yes and without googling as one of them is coming down the club to give a talk,
I believe he is in a wheelchair now and has fallen out with Norton

aj wrote:.

Remember the wankle....had the use of one for a few months ...in gulf oil livery...
the team sponsor was john player
Gulf oil, my client at the time co-sponsored...

Manufacture in those days was at shenstone....

Don't know if they ever TT,d that bike... Probably Just the British championships....

Can you remember who road them????

Regards
Aj

Sheffield Police had a couple of Norton Wankel engined bikes. Chatting to one of the ossifers about it and he said the engine was bulletproof. There were worries about the rotor tips wearing but he said his bike had been stripped right down to check everything after 100, 000 miles and nothing at all to replace. Wasnt it abandoned due to exhaust temos and oil consumption?

Ron Haslam "road" them didunt he?

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Yeeerrrsss.. Rocket Ron...and...???


The street version they produced for gulf was a pig below 12k revs....lumpy to put it mildly
Trying to keep it above in traffic and built up areas was considered anti social...
But.... Once let lose...fek it went....

Sorry to see it go at the end of the season... Should have bought it off them ....
They didn't know what to do with it anyway....don't know who they sold it to"

Regards
Aj

Well this is who i had in mind thought it was more you boys era







come on the 3 wise Monkeys Mr Jono, Mr M and Mr OB the Clutch

Think I saw them in the Asda ebay shop, don't believe they are available in store, check locally

Yes when you Buy a £26,000 Norton

you get parts from a TDM, Harley,and some big American car (the bits at the top of the engine that rock up and down thought they were called tappets but apparently not)

jono49 wrote:Without google.....Engine "Aprilia RSV4"............. Clutch....Fook knows?

yep Aprilla V twin

2 bikes running at this years TT and they expect a top 10 finish

bluegas wrote:Engine- 1978 Yamaha FS1E
Clutch- Honda ride on lawnmower

good effort please try harder

I know Stevie Hislop rode the Rotory at the TT 96 - 97 I think, they cleaned up in the suberbike races as well until they banned em because they couldnt agree what CC they were...

They will be running at the Manx/classic at the IOM again this year and I will be there droolling... still sound fookin awesome on full chat

I should know the clutch but fooked if I remember