Norton 952 Commando

Ummm, '83, or '93, Doug? GP bikes didn't have USD forks in 1983...

Man, did the FZR1000 parts bin cop a plundering from that one, or what?

Yeah, it would. Even in those photos, it looks like something that took an
awfully long time to get from the napkin to the design studio to the
workshop to the tarmac...

Nice design, but it is unmistakably_old,_ especially from the front...
smacks of Porsche 928, kinda

 

Come to think of it, it *was* '93...I need a holiday...hang on, I *am* on
holidays. Doh!...

Doug Cox.
Cash, hash or gash, no-one rides for free...

 

Gawd, I was thinking of the Commander...

Doug Cox.
Work to ride, Ride to work...

 

Then get back to work, Douglas!
~

 

} Sayeth Gary Woodman <>:
} >
} > Interesting. Note the drive on the right. I thought all that stuff was
} > standardised (i.e. the factories do what the septics said).
}
} Controls were standardized because of the Yank rules (not that
} that's a bad thing!)

When did they do that? Germany issued DIN 73005 somewhere mid-'50's,
concerning control layout.

} but chains and shafts appear on either
} side, depending. Most of the recent Japanese stuff seems to
} go with chain-on-the-left, maybe just to keep the
} chain out of the rain.

Anything past 1965 or so (though Zebee would probably rate that as
'recent' indeed). Some of the early Japanese machines have chains on
the right, but most of those seem to be copies of some European bike
or other. And if you see a European machine with a chain on the left,
ten to one it's got a Japanese engine.

} Shafties seem to have the shaft on either side about equally.

BMW and Guzzi all have them on the right. Japanese makes appear to
have them on the left quite often, probably because of simply adapting
existing engine designs. The only ones I know that have right-hand
shafts are machines that you won't find the engine of in a chain-drive
variant: Z1300, Goldwing, CX.

--
// Rik Steenwinkel '85 R80ST Skippy bike
// Enschede '91 R100GS/PD The Great Unwashed
// Netherlands ('76 Honda CB250G Bouwpakketje)
// "Far away is only far away '90 K75C Kommutabike
// if you don't go there" '81 MZ TS250/1+LSW Badkuip

 

Ummm, all current Ducatis have left-hand chains.
So does the 60-degree v-twin Rotax build for Aprilia.
....and most of the engines (all except the old-school 640LC4 from what a
quick scan reveals) they build for KTM.
Triumph...

 

On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 07:35:29 UTC, "Intact Kneeslider"

} >
} > Anything past 1965 or so (though Zebee would probably rate that as
} > 'recent' indeed). Some of the early Japanese machines have chains on
} > the right, but most of those seem to be copies of some European bike
} > or other. And if you see a European machine with a chain on the left,
} > ten to one it's got a Japanese engine.
}
} Ummm, all current Ducatis have left-hand chains.
} So does the 60-degree v-twin Rotax build for Aprilia.

Yer right. But anything less than ten years old is somewhat under my
radar.

} ...and most of the engines (all except the old-school 640LC4 from what a
} quick scan reveals) they build for KTM.

They seem to alternate. "Lessee, last one had chain on the left, let's
put it on the right this time."

} Triumph...

They drive on the left there.

--
// Rik Steenwinkel '85 R80ST Skippy bike
// Enschede '91 R100GS/PD The Great Unwashed
// Netherlands ('76 Honda CB250G Bouwpakketje)
// "Far away is only far away '90 K75C Kommutabike
// if you don't go there" '81 MZ TS250/1+LSW Badkuip

 

Not saying a word..

Al
(wheres ATEC)

 

Goddamn it, that one normally works so well too.

-----sharks

 

Men can't generally find the coriolis.