Monoshock John Player??

cliffa said:

Carl, the Daytona monument, is that down on the beach ?

Click to expand...

It's at 100 N Atlantic Ave on the beach, behind a large hotel. This is the original monument , they add bricks and plaques to it every year, You can have your very own for a fee. It was a grand opening with all the celebrity racers there. And I got it all on 35MM film. Klamfoth worked his butt off on it and made it happen, now his family and Bob Coy work hard to add to it We toured the granite company in VT to scope them out before they produced it, and boy they make people look alive in B&W etchings. Klamfoth had a lot of stories about his Daytona wins. Them were the good days..

acotrel said:

There was a race where PW finished ahead of the big two strokes with his Commando.

Click to expand...

You mean the F750 race at the TT where the other bikes didn't get ridden. . . .

This might help answer Jim's original question a bit. This is what Peter Williams had to say about the monoshock bike in his book, "Designed to Race."



I believe that the 1971 bike he is referring to was the experimental F750 racer shown below (also taken from Peter's book)



I take Peter's words to mean that the rest of the monoshock bikes frame looks very similar to this one. But that's just my conclusion from pretty limited data so far. Would be nice if someone with real knowledge of the bike could chip in.

Ken

Not very similar to the 74 spaceframe in post #40

gortnipper said:

Not very similar to the 74 spaceframe in post #40

Click to expand...

No, it's not. I don't think anyone ever said that it should be. The monoshock bike was a separate effort from the spaceframe bike. The spaceframe bike was the successor to the monocoque, with both designed for the original Commando twin. The monoshock was built as part of the development effort for the Cosworth engined bike, but with the Commando engine because the Cosworth design wasn't available. It was meant to be a test mule for the Cosworth development, not a replacement F750 racer. At least that's how I read all the literature I've seen.

Ken