Triton on my mind

I have shaved a lot of weight off my Norton over the years (35 years with my 850 featherbed) and is a lot lighter than a Atlas, it only has the bare assencals on the bike.

Ashley

Ashman, I don't doubt any of what you said except that I thought a full commando chassis was lighter than a full featherbed chassis?

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That may be so , but its ' creative arithmatic ' , as these things weigh several tonne , even without the Mods .



NOW , If they Said ' Commando Chassis & featherbed Chassis ( The Frame ASSEMBLY ) as in mountingplates , bolts & Spacers .
I might be a differant thing All Together . as that bleedy cradle weighs about five times what a whole FRAME weihs. thereabouts.

Matt Spencer said:

Ashman, I don't doubt any of what you said except that I thought a full commando chassis was lighter than a full featherbed chassis?

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That may be so , but its ' creative arithmatic ' , as these things weigh several tonne , even without the Mods .

NOW , If they Said ' Commando Chassis & featherbed Chassis ( The Frame ASSEMBLY ) as in mountingplates , bolts & Spacers .
I might be a differant thing All Together . as that bleedy cradle weighs about five times what a whole FRAME weihs. thereabouts.

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Yep you got it right there Matt and don't forget the front isolastic plate as well, my Featherbed engine plates are so light and only 5mm thick, I made alloy plates and ran them for some time but ended up going back to steel plates as the alloy ones had to be thicker, the motor was a lot smoother with my steel plates and the diffrents in weight saving wasn't that much, the best thing with my Featherbed set up is I can remove the motor, gearbox, primary and all the bottom engine mounts still connected to the motor by just removing 4 bottom bolts and 3 top bolts on the head stay and the 3 allen head bolts on the head, takes about 15 minutes to undo and I can lift, tilt and pull the whole unit out and put on the work bench if I need to do any major work, make life so much easier.

Ashley

Sorry for the grainy mag pic but I found this Dresda Triton to be pretty inspiring. The swept back pipes look good too.

Jeff, did you buy grandpaul's Triton project in the end?

Nope.

I'm back to working in my shop and it'll become a runner soon enough, along with the VR880 project.

Seems a shame as it seemed to tick all the boxes for Jeff's desired project start.

I for one would certainly have bought it if you'd have been 'over here'!