Recreating The 1970s Norton Racing Motorcycles - Part 2/3

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Part two of the story of how the famous Norton Works Team from the 1970s reunited one last time, in 2004, to recreate the five racing machines they first built 30 years earlier, after disaster struck the UK's National Motorcycle Museum and destroyed more than two thirds of its collection of priceless veteran, vintage and classic motorcycles.
With exclusive access to the workshops of former Norton race engineer Norman White, we follow the team as they hand craft these bikes back to life in less than a year from drawings, photographs, and their own memories.
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@savingclassicmotorcycles 2 месяца назад

Absolute awesome and thanks so much for sharing this series always fascinating to see artisans at work sometimes I think I was born outta my time :) Norman sorted my 68’ Commando frame for me real legend

@3Phils 2 месяца назад

Glad you enjoyed it! Norman is a legend!

@savingclassicmotorcycles 2 месяца назад

@@3Phils really is :)

@practicalplinking6133 6 месяцев назад

Aah, the bump start and running at the end !! Music to my ears !! Thank you, Gentlemen !!

@3Phils 6 месяцев назад

Our pleasure - glad you liked it!

@Free_Ranger_CT110 6 месяцев назад

Brilliant series, can't wait for the next one.

@3Phils 6 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@frankharradence5546 6 месяцев назад

Interesting series. Back in the day Norman converted my Triumph T90 primary to belt drive at his Thruxton workshop. I did also own a 71 Commando Fastback but my real love was my 73 T150 Trident and my T160 later converted to a Rob North Trident.

@3Phils 6 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the comment. Norman is still at his Thruxton workshop, should you ever be passing. Having owned both a Commando and a T160, the T160, although quite a bigger lump, has the edge for sure.

@deanhackett349 7 месяцев назад

I’ve really enjoyed watching this.

@3Phils 7 месяцев назад

Thank you! Hopefully you’ve seen part one, and part three will be coming out next Friday 29th Dec.

@deanhackett349 7 месяцев назад

@@3Phils I have seen both parts and really look forward to part three.

@3Phils 7 месяцев назад

Excellent! We might even put the DVD extras on YT at some point.

@caribman10 6 месяцев назад

A street bike version is DEFINITELY called for here based on an 850/electric start power plant...with an aluminum cylinder.

@chhindz 6 месяцев назад

I blew up my 72 Norton Transmission in 74, on hitting second gear, broke 3 cases, got rid of Barnetts on replacement.

@mikecartlidge5355 5 месяцев назад

Craftsmen all of them

@3Phils 5 месяцев назад

Couldn’t agree more, and we salute them.

@nutball73 7 месяцев назад

Interesting. Had I known I could've supplied some of my photos of the 1974 bikes which might have helped!

@3Phils 7 месяцев назад

Thanks! That would have been great, although it was all filmed 20 years ago!

@nickbrowning6652 7 месяцев назад

shocked to see the cosworth still had a 2 bearing crank , what were they thinking.

@3Phils 7 месяцев назад

It was like that because it was two cylinders shaved off the end of the Cosworth DFV F1 V8 engine, according to our sources. Not ideal, though.

@muzza881 6 месяцев назад

From what I can find, the DFV had a flat plane crank with two conrods on each crankpin and a crank bearing between each pair. If you just took two cylinders off the end, you'd get a V-twin. Taking two cylinders off one side would need new single big ends for each of the conrods, and would have given a 180 degree twin. Apparently this was what Cosworth originally wanted, but Norton management stepped in, wanting a single carb street bike version. This needed a 360 degree crank and a huge flywheel, and the resulting racer couldn't win anything. Not ideal at all. @@3Phils

@colinmartin2921 7 месяцев назад

Poor PJ, what a shame that his career ended like that. R.I.P.

@3Phils 7 месяцев назад

Tragic indeed.

@gren509 7 месяцев назад

The Cossie crank is stupidly heavy, no wonder engine breaking (mis-match) was a huge issue. I'd love to know why they made it so big, hopefully someone here, or Google will provide the answer.

@3Phils 7 месяцев назад

Basically Cosworth had all the development rights and did all the testing. The Norton team had to send the engines back to them if any tweaks were needed. As it was basically a lump shaved off the Cosworth F1 V8 engine, it wasn’t really tailored to the bikes. Regarding engine braking, it would be something like ten years before slipper clutches came on the scene!

@DANTHETUBEMAN 6 месяцев назад

put a bigger steel ring in the case and add material to the lext case 😁 lets fet rid of that smile

@jumpfortyfour9965 7 месяцев назад

peters crash was by the tankseat coming off the bike .

@3Phils 7 месяцев назад

Yes, that’s what he always said, although the truth was perhaps a bit more nuanced.

@davidatkinson3887 7 месяцев назад

why isn't Norton Motors involved in this project.? They have the 5/6 bolt serrated disc carriers and rotors .P.W sold the 5 spoke Alloy/Magnesium wheels for a few years . Mick Hemmings (r.i. p) could have some bits.

@3Phils 7 месяцев назад

Sadly Norton was defunct in 2004 when all this was filmed.