750cc Norton Commando Salt Flats Build

savingclassicmotorcycles said:

Thanks for sharing Zachary great thread always been a dream of mine to run a bike at the Salt Flats something for the future for sure, fun fact for a while Burt Munro's Grand daughter was our next door neighbour epicly awesome family she always used to pop her head over if I had the 650ss in the garden working on her

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That's awesome! When I ordered the TTI gearbox for this project I got the following response from the TTI design group "We're willing to help you. We just request that you leave Burt Munro's record alone." Haha

milfordite said:

Curious as to why you are using the Norton rear wheel. Is that in the rules? I used a Suzuki GS550 rear wheel on my race bike because it was lighter, has a better cush drive, and you could change sprockets.

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It's not in the rules from everything in the SCTA book. It's just the route that I decided to take. Really wanted to keep it as much Norton as possible. Not to concerned with a lightweight wheel since I'm just going in a straight line and not going for extreme acceleration. As for changing the rear sprockets I'm not to worried about that with the TTI 6-speed wide ratio gearbox. Now I may be way off base and be proven wrong when I finally make it out to Bonneville (sadly won't be this year due to financial and time restrictions on the project)