Pix from Blackthorn

Ok heres a few Iphone pix to start the ball rolling

How are the accommodations over there? food? I will be there tomorrow, but knowing in advance would help.

Jean

Lovely stuff.
Gee I'd like to here that P11 just under valve bounce.

My room is very basic and dated.It has been attended and fresh towels supplied daily so no complaints here.
My room comes with meals included and everything has been fine so far.

I am in room 112, I chose no meals, but I may change that depending on the price they as for meals. I got in just in time for the BBQ.

Jean

Ok Jean catch you tomorow.
Heres a few more in no particular order









Guess who?

A few pics I had time to shoot while looking for my room







More tomorrow

Jean

any more pics of the crimson one w/ the side pipes and roadster logo?

A few more pics





See you CAN fit a Norton in a compact :wink:




Lots of interesting modifications on this one, starting with the pipes. It is easy to see this guy is a good welder, the welds are flawless.









Jean (trying to keep cool in spite of the heat wave)

Be sure to find the American Norton folks, stop by and say hi. No, I'm not there.

swooshdave said:

Be sure to find the American Norton folks, stop by and say hi. No, I'm not there.

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Met them and had a great time with them

No pics today but will post later until then heres a crude vid of Thursdays group ride leaving the Blackthorne
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95mOiyhOEzw[/video]

Playing around in the Concours with this new app I got. Check it out
http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=cfe0d712-c829-4519-857d-5cd1e0d4f56e

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A pair of nice yellow roadsters




A superb Fastback, even my very critical friend could not find anything to say about this one, everything was just perfect, no I take it back, he said it was a shame the paint was not original :roll:




I think this is norbsa's bike, there can't be more than one Fastback with everything in aluminium :?:



Now this is an interesting bike from the UK, the forks appear to be the top part of Norton lowers fork legs mated to the bottom part of Japanese lower fork legs. Maybe they had an interference fit or they were epoxied together, but it is slick since no adapter brackets are needed for the calipers. I didn't take a picture of it, but he had made his own hydraulic clutch.





He added an oil filter to the back of the "hump" of the timing cover



Jean

A superb Fastback, even my very critical friend could not find anything to say about this one, everything was just perfect, no I take it back, he said it was a shame the paint was not original :roll:



Looks like the rear hub has the cush drive rather than the bolt on?

jsouthard said:

Looks like the rear hub has the cush drive rather than the bolt on?

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Gee, we both missed that :!: must have been blinded by the rest :mrgreen:

Jean

Jeandr said:

jsouthard said:

Looks like the rear hub has the cush drive rather than the bolt on?

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Gee, we both missed that :!: must have been blinded by the rest :mrgreen:

Jean

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That bike did have the bolt-on drum, the plugs just happen to be hidden in the one picture.

He had the bike parked right next to my Ranger - actually mine was sandwiched between two '68 Commandos. The Green one was supposed to be in the first boatload, but both were numbered in the 126xxx range. If I recall, neither had the frame repair, i.e., still had the coils stacked one over the other where the later brace was installed.
There was a lot of discussion about the need for some sort of disclaimer when a bike is restored with a potentially fatal defect left intact.
His claim also was that the color is a faithful reproduction of the gelcoat, but the tank was in need of serious work and had to be painted.

I didn't like the fact that fastbacks were put into the 'low production big twin category', along with 750 'S' bikes and the hybrids. They should be in a class by themselves. I would think that there should be separate classes for Roadster, Interstate, Fastback, other Commando models ('S', 'SS', Hi Rider, 'R', Fastback LR, Interpol), and low production big twin class for N15, P11, Production Racer, and the Dunstall variants.