Help if you can, Norton racer in bad shape

For those that didn't know, Doug is an accomplished photographer. Help if you can, Norton racer in bad shape

Check out his gallery store and maybe buy a print here:
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1926 Indian Board Track Racer Motor Print — Douglas MacRae

Indian Board Track Racer Motor Print
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This link is for a post the Doug shared here on the forum. It is one of my all time favorite posts.

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Race Commando handling secrets revealed

Not everyone wants to reveal their secrets especially in racing and I am not retiring from racing yet, although I fell off a few times in 2009 and lost to Kenny for the first time ( I should have retired right there ), I have slowed a bit. It is possible that there is a better set up Commando...
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Hopefully this will inspire people to dig just a little deeper.
 
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I suggest the race circuits in which Doug competed might have had a lot of high speed sweeping bends. Phillip Island is like that. In recent years, I only raced on shorter, tighter circuits. I have won races, but it was not until the last time I raced, that I really discovered how to use the Seeley, - just flick it into a corner and accelerate hard all the way through with the bike more verttical. - Normally you would not do that.
The bike oversteers when it squats.
All neutral handling bikes do that, but mine handles one step further towards self-steering, on the spectrum.
When the bike squats the rake increases, and the bike turns in the direction in which it is leaned, and stays more vertical.
If you get it wrong, you crash.
I got power down onto the road where other more powerful bikes could not. So I came out of corners faster. When you are on full lean, it is difficult to accelerate really hard. Most guys race neutral-handling bikes which lean a lot. When your bike oversteers, your brain needs to be where the corner finishes, so you do not collide with someone coming into your path.
I think if I ever raced again at Phillip Island, gearing might be a problem. If I run out of steam in a corner, I would not get around it. To oversteer, the bike must pull to depress the rear, otherwise I would run wide. With my bike, you cannot just cruise around.
 
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Done. I wish Doug and his family the best with this terrible situation. We lost a sister-in-law way too soon to C, and I lost my wife last year to complications in a difficult brain operation. Funding should not be an issue for this. I see that Doug is in Ontario, Canada, and I would hope that OHIP would do the right thing. We have family in Ontario and they say it’s not all that it’s reputed to be. God bless you Doug. Hang tough and be strong!
 
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Done. I only wish I could have given more. I have especially enjoyed Doug's photographs, which are often superb. Doug, you have a very good eye for capturing an image!! My Pop's was a photographer and I got to play around in his dark room developing old school b/w pictures. My wife underwent brain surgery, 3 years ago now, to remove a craniopharyngioma tumor that has now returned(they are thinking of using a"gamma knife"on it this time). Anyway, while it isn't cancerous the procedure alone is difficult enough but pales in comparison to what you must be going through Doug. Our thoughts and prayers are with you. Keep on keeping on Amigo, CjandMegumi
 
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Done. I only wish I could have given more. I have especially enjoyed Doug's photographs, which are often superb. Doug, you have a very good eye for capturing an image!! My Pop's was a photographer and I got to play around in his dark room developing old school b/w pictures. My wife underwent brain surgery, 3 years ago now, to remove a craniopharyngioma tumor that has now returned(they are thinking of using a"gamma knife"on it this time). Anyway, while it isn't cancerous the procedure alone is difficult enough but pales in comparison to what you must be going through Doug. Our thoughts and prayers are with you. Keep on keeping on Amigo, CjandMegumi
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At our Great White Norton Rally last weekend we collected an additional $310 to the raffle of The Sunburst Print which Kenny Cummings and Doug MacRea signed their Autographs. We also donated earlier $1000 between ONo and the Tun Up Club in Toronto at our Spring Motorcycle show at the International Center. The winner of the Sunburst print went to Craig Humphries at our Rally.
He was a happy camper.
Cheers,
Tom
 
Great to see the community come together like this. I had a visit with Doug not long ago to fix his broken coffee table, he was in good spirits though lacking energy, having his mates visit to chat seems to really pick him up.
 
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