Triumph to buy Norton!

Looks like Norton America have run out of dosh and won't be doing the
new Commando; surely one of the Asia motorcycle co's will buy the
design - the latest rumour to hit our editorial desk, Triumph are going
to buy the Norton name and do some sporting twins!


http://umgweb.com

 

You mean, that tarted-up warmed-over design that dates back to 1949?

Why??? "Latest rumour" my arse.

 

Thus spake () unto the assembled multitudes:

Oh goody, perhaps we'll be able to buy a Nemesis after all.

 

Someone took Rover, so it seems fitting.

 

By 'editorial desk', he means the sheaf of newspaper in the kharzi.
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In uk.rec.motorcycles.classic, Grimly Curmudgeon belched forth and
ejected the following:

That's been wiped by a thousand arses.

 

Anton Gijsen said...

There'll be a good reason why the Japanese never put a copy into
production too.

 

Anton Gijsen came up with the following;:

You think you'd be able to make it run longer than, what was it?, maybe 30
minutes?

 

Didn't Ford mess with the concept for years? ISTR the Orbital engine
that never saw production was a stepped-piston two-stroke....

 

It's not as though the Japs are particuarly adventurous when it comes to
weird n' wonderful engine configurations.

 

Do what?

Singles - vertical, horizontal, sloping.
Twins - flat, V, parallel, tandem & vertical.
Triples - V & inline
fours - flat, square, inline & V
fives - V
sixes - flat & inline
rotary.

So what weird 'n' wonderful configuration have they missed? Radial? The
Brits did a wonderful example of that

The Italians have done V6 & V8 bikes and the Germans did a flat triple
but I can't, offhand, think of any engine configuration[1] used by the
Brits that wasn't also used by the Japs.

Bob

[1] except for that bonkers radial & the distinctly bizarre Wooller
twins & fours.

 

You *what*?

You've got to be trolling, surely?

 

In message

I think he must be.

 

(snip)

(vague, probably erroneous recollection)
Didn't Honda make a six cylinder 50cc racer in the Sixties sometime,
that revved to something ridiculous, possessed ten gears, and had a
power band of about 50 revs?

 

No. Suzuki made a 3 cylinder 50, but never raced it in GPs (the rules
changed) - 19bhp, apparently. 14 speeds. RK67, iirc.

Honda had an inline 5 cylinder 125. Yamaha a v-four.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, The Older

You think?

It has occurred to me that this wanker showed up shortly after the last
troll (whose name I now realise escapes me) submerged. You know, the one
who said he'd show up at BOSM... That one.

*Anyway*, I reckon it's him. Again.

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Wicked Uncle Nigel said...

It's an arsewipe, whatever it is

 

Assuming it had a drum selector, just imagine the stop falling off and
going from 14th gear to first ...

Ah thanks. I knew I was sort of on the right track with the idea of
outrageous small Jap multis ...
These other machines you mentioned must have been hair-raising, and
I think I'll spend a while trawling the web for more details.

 

I was given a book recently - words as well as pictures - it talks of a
Suzuki RS67 - watercooled 125, 2-stroke, v-4, 42 bhp @ 16,500 rpm with a
12-speed gearbox. First race in 1967.


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