Norton Dragster

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bwolfie

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• Dec 16, 2012

• #1

Stumbled upon this on "another" forum. Very interesting stuff. Wish there was more info on it.

http://www.britbike.com/forums/ubbthrea ... Post467946

 

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Matt Spencer

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• Dec 16, 2012

• #2

typical kiwi skinflints , cant afford a Norton Box . :x

The front downtube looks like a leftover too . :x ( just kidding folks )

 

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J.A.W.

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• Dec 16, 2012

• #3

The gear 1`drive is interesting, anyone else tried that usefully? Perhaps a more modern vertically stacked 6-speed would work even better..

 

Hobot

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• Dec 16, 2012

• #4

Every Norton drag racer alive and late I've quizzed all to a man spit on ground then said AMC spill guts on track about 100 hp level of launches. Very interesting solution shown. Most decent power to weight dragsters don't need many gears and tend to lose time in shifts. What sort of class would these Brit Iron bikes run in?

 

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J.A.W.

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• Dec 16, 2012

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Yeah, you are correct dragrace-wise, I was thinking more along the lines of a custom short iso cradle to fit in a 250 G.P. bike chassis..

 

lcrken

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• Dec 16, 2012

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Interesting. IIRC Leo used a Kawasaki Z-1/KZ900/KZ1000 sort of gearbox. Afterwards he said that if he had known how much work it was going to take, he wouldn't have done it.

Ken