What's this bike?

QLDZX6R · Post by **QLDZX6R** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 5:35 pm

Do any of you out there know what this bike is,it's in the Nov 06 edition of Bike Magazine but no comment on it. Has the same Gold around the tank as AJS but looks like a V-Twin.Mirrors look Ducati Sportclassic?

Gosling1 · Post by **Gosling1** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 5:41 pm

looks like some custom cafe racer - Hog motor, perhaps in a Norton frame ? yucchhh

QLDZX6R · Post by **QLDZX6R** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 5:47 pm

Ahh,so def. not off the shelf

Gosling1 · Post by **Gosling1** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 5:51 pm

off, but not off the shelf ..

Back in the 90's there was a Japanese mob who used to make cafe-racer clones with a Hog motor in their own frame, can't remember the name, but they looked a bit like this one.

QLDZX6R · Post by **QLDZX6R** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:05 pm

o.k, don't know why you'd choose a harley engine..maybe ducati or aprillia. Thought it might be a new retro from ducati or a new Norton (Yanks have bought their name)

Gosling1 · Post by **Gosling1** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:12 pm

The US Nortons are a really nice piece of kit. I have a few good photos of them, but scanner is u/s at the moment......

If you google on Norton-US, you should find the website. There are 2 models, a streeter and a sportier 'race' version. They both look like the ducks guts !!

QLDZX6R · Post by **QLDZX6R** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:21 pm

Yeah seen the website about six months ago,from memory they had Brembos and Ohlins and that Black and Gold paintwork,Definitely a looker-U.S only tho.

Strika · Post by **Strika** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:47 pm

They look like Harley Heads, but the cases are def not HD!!!!! Maybe it's one of the Vtwin Yamaha motors from the MT01failure!!!!!!!!!!

hidepenny · Post by **hidepenny** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:49 pm

it looks like a moto guzzi to me

Strika · Post by **Strika** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:54 pm

hidepenny wrote:it looks like a moto guzzi to me

Ahhhh young grasshopper I can explain that! Just as in that pic, the heads are slanted the wrong way, so are your eyes HP

bonester · Post by **bonester** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:54 pm

There was a kit years ago that could turn a Sportster into a Vincent replica- maybe this is one?

QLDZX6R · Post by **QLDZX6R** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 7:07 pm

Ah,forgot about Vincent (rep),makes sense being a V-twin

hidepenny · Post by **hidepenny** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 8:32 pm

Ahhhh young grasshopper I can explain that! Just as in that pic, the heads are slanted the wrong way, so are your eyes HP
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darn, did i get things wrong again
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Gosling1 · Post by **Gosling1** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:14 pm

Strika wrote:They look like Harley Heads, but the cases are def not HD!!!!! ....

you sure ? They look like Sporty cases - its definitely a unit-construction motor, and it has all the hallmarks of a HD.......the rear master-cylinder, RH chain drive etc.........not many Jappa's have a RH drive chain ........

The best Vincent copy I have ever seen was built by a bloke in Queensland a few years ago - it was based on a Yammie XV1000 motor, and it looked *fantastic*. It featured in 'Streetbike' magazine at the time (later to become RAPID.....eventually....)

QLDZX6R · Post by **QLDZX6R** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 4:18 pm

O.k, Simon Weir (assistant Editor-Bike Magazine) finally replied to my question and it appears it is a Harley Engine inside a Norton Frame,he not positive on size but thinks its a 1200.