My New Norasaki/ KawaTon

grandpaul said:
The OP certainly will worry no more, as he has sold the bike along.
Yes that's right. The Triumph build got so extensive it forced me to put the KawaTon up for sale. I listed it on CraigsList in Atl for a month at $5k obo and got no bites. I then listed it on CraigslIst in Los Angeles and got a response with in an hour : Is everyone in Dawsonville crazy? Or is it just you? Well he got a typical nasty reply. My friend Jag told me I needed to get it on EBay where I would have a bigger audience. So I listed it on EBay with a BIN @ $5k or "make offer". I set it up with a "refuse all offers less than $3K" and "accept all offers over $4k". We'll I got an offer within 1/2 an hour and completed the deal within the hour and offered to deliver it to Ct. if he paid the asking price. He agreed and I made him pay an additional $150 for gas to bring it to him, which gave me an opportunity to spend the weekend with my family in Ct. (Mom, Dad, and 2 Bro's). The guy who bought it has 21 other bikes in his stable and works for the city of Bridgeport. He met me at my parents house at 3pm and loaded the bike and was on his way. On Sunday he texts me to say he has spark, cleaned the carbs and some other things to it. On Monday on my way back home he texts me a video to show he already has the bike running, Holy shite. Am I kicking myself right now. I get home and start to look into a box that I had filled with auto manuals from my deceased brothers house. Well sometime between me packing the box and it being delivered to me my brother had put other paperwork and manuals in the box. Includes in this paper work was all the receipts and drawings and diagrams from the build of the KawaTon. The guy kept a diary of every ride and what changes he made and the results. Diagrams for the exhaust, motor mounts and all. This bike was built in 1977 and ridden regularly for the next 4 years, so enough of all the worry off how this thing is going to fall apart. I never really went over the bike closely enough to know that the 2 bubbles in the side of the tank are not from the fiberglass blistering, but blisters in the bondo repair of a dent in the ALLOY tank.


My New  Norasaki/ KawaTon




All my efforts are being concentrated on the 1970 Triumph Tiger conversion to Kimtabs and disc brakes.



My New  Norasaki/ KawaTon
 
o1marc said:
grandpaul said:
The OP certainly will worry no more, as he has sold the bike along.
Holy shite. Am I kicking myself right now.

LOL! Just watch it show-up in Classic Bike Magazine next year with a 3 page full color spread. Then you'll really kick yourself. I saw a Benelli Sei 6 cylinder motor in a custom Featherbed last month. It seems people love to build all manner of contraptions with Featherbed frames.
 
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Ich habe dieses Fahrrad kürzlich von meinem Bruder geerbt. Er hat es seit über 3 Jahrzehnten und war sehr privat, seine Spielsachen für sich zu behalten, und ich konnte ihn nicht einmal dazu bringen, mir ein Bild davon zu schicken. Es ist ein 1959er Norton Manx mit einem 1975er Kawasaki H2 750 Triple, der mit speziellem Auspuff in den Rahmen eingebettet ist. Der ursprüngliche Besitzer / Erbauer machte auf seiner Ducati eine Kehrtwende gegen Mulholland und wurde kurz nach Abschluss dieses Baus von einem Auto angefahren und getötet. Mein Bruder kaufte es beim Immobilienverkauf für 500 Dollar. Mein Freund kaufte die Ducati, auf der er getötet wurde, und restaurierte sie und drehte sie um. Ich bin neu bei Nortons, aber nicht bei Triumphs, Kawasaki oder Harley Sportsters. Ich möchte, dass Sie Norton-Experten die Bilder anzeigen und mir sagen, was Sie über die Norton-Teile können. Ich bin gespannt auf die Schalen unter der Vorderseite des Kraftstofftanks. Sind sie ein Fabrikstück? Sowieso,
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Ich habe dieses Fahrrad kürzlich von meinem Bruder geerbt. Er hat es seit über 3 Jahrzehnten und war sehr privat, seine Spielsachen für sich zu behalten, und ich konnte ihn nicht einmal dazu bringen, mir ein Bild davon zu schicken. Es ist ein 1959er Norton Manx mit einem 1975er Kawasaki H2 750 Triple, der mit speziellem Auspuff in den Rahmen eingebettet ist. Der ursprüngliche Besitzer / Erbauer machte auf seiner Ducati eine Kehrtwende gegen Mulholland und wurde kurz nach Abschluss dieses Baus von einem Auto angefahren und getötet. Mein Bruder kaufte es beim Immobilienverkauf für 500 Dollar. Mein Freund kaufte die Ducati, auf der er getötet wurde, und restaurierte sie und drehte sie um. Ich bin neu bei Nortons, aber nicht bei Triumphs, Kawasaki oder Harley Sportsters. Ich möchte, dass Sie Norton-Experten die Bilder anzeigen und mir sagen, was Sie über die Norton-Teile können. Ich bin gespannt auf die Schalen unter der Vorderseite des Kraftstofftanks. Sind sie ein Fabrikstück? Sowieso,
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Hi, pretty well nothing at all. He was asking for any information on the Norton parts which the trained eye might see. My eye not being trained, I will not comment.

Have a good day,

Martin
 
What a project, as Fast Eddie says too far gone to turn it back into a Norton 😢 but if you are up to it you could make something interesting and very rare out of it.
Wow what big brakes you have :shock:.
You want to hope the frame is not a Manx, as the weight of the engine will create problems.
Front brake mounts could be cause for concern as to how they are mounted.
Engine mounting needs to be improved.
Good project to do in memory of your brother though.
Regards
Burgs
Something might create problems. Buy insurance.
 
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The greatest excitement (and scares) I have ever had in motorcycling came when daring to open the throttle of a tuned two stroke. At present I scare myself silly with a 490 Maico mxer now and then.
People who have never ridden one just don't know what it feels like when a high output 2 stroke hits the powerband.
The Kawi triples went well but handled badly, so some enterprising soul decided to do something about it, hence your triple in a Featherbed.
Get it going and ride it, it will never be a long distance Tourer but it will be huge fun.


Glen you
It is easy to build a motorcycle which will scare yourself shitless
 
I recently inherited this bike from my brother. He has had it for over 3 decades and was very private about keeping his toys to himself and I could never even get him to send me a pic of it. It is a 1959 Norton Manx with a 1975 Kawasaki H2 750 triple nestled into the frame with custom exhaust. The original owner/builder was making a U turn on Mulholland on his Ducati and was hit and killed by a car shortly after completing this build. My brother bought it at the estate sale for $500. My friend bought the Ducati he was killed on and restored and flipped it. I'm new to Nortons, but not Triumphs, Kawasaki's, or Harley Sportsters. I'd like you Norton experts to view the pics and tell me what you can about the Norton parts. I'm curious as to the pods under the front of the fuel tank, are they a factory piece? Anyways, heres the pics for you to delight over, I'll add comments as you reply.
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Because I can - ,that is never a good reason for doing anything
 
Because I can - ,that is never a good reason for doing anything
'Because I can ' is a very good reason for doing anything
'Because you can't ' is an even better reason for doing anything
But the supreme top reason is when someone says 'you can't do that' !!!!
'Or that won't work '
Some twiddle their thumbs
Others get on with it
 
“All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds Awake to find that it was vanity; But the dreamers of day are dangerous men. That they may act their dreams with open eyes to make it possible”.
TE Lawrence (AKA Lawrence of Arabia)
 
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