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What's this bike?
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 5:35 pm
by QLDZX6R
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?
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 5:41 pm
by Gosling1
looks like some custom cafe racer - Hog motor, perhaps in a Norton frame ? yucchhh
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 5:47 pm
by QLDZX6R
Ahh,so def. not off the shelf
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 5:51 pm
by Gosling1
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.
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:05 pm
by QLDZX6R
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)
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:12 pm
by Gosling1
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 !!
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:21 pm
by QLDZX6R
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.
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:47 pm
by Strika
They look like Harley Heads, but the cases are def not HD!!!!! Maybe it's one of the Vtwin Yamaha motors from the MT01failure!!!!!!!!!!
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:49 pm
by hidepenny
it looks like a moto guzzi to me
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:54 pm
by Strika
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:54 pm
by bonester
There was a kit years ago that could turn a Sportster into a Vincent replica- maybe this is one?
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 7:07 pm
by QLDZX6R
Ah,forgot about Vincent (rep),makes sense being a V-twin
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 8:32 pm
by hidepenny
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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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:14 pm
by Gosling1
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....)
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 4:18 pm
by QLDZX6R
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.