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

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Part three 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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Classic Motorcycle Racing at Brands Hatch (2004):
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@mikecartlidge5355 5 месяцев назад

So great to see those machines restored to such perfection. With men who have skills of that level, well it's in the blood and you could tell they were happy to be working on those motorcycles again. I spent 48 years as a motorcycle mechanic and worked at a Norton dealership and they were happy days indeed. Now retired but I have a workshop and projects of my own to keep my hand in.

@3Phils 5 месяцев назад

Yes, amazing fellows indeed. And it was all done with calm dedication, professionalism and good humour throughout. Wishing you a long and happy retirement fettling your projects - what great skills to have!

@mikecartlidge5355 4 месяца назад

@@3Phils Thank you.

@jamescoleman4747 Месяц назад

Norman White very nice bloke I met him at Thruxton circuit many years ago I was on my 72 t120 and he had time for me.

@3Phils Месяц назад

He’s a legend and always has time for a cuppa and a chat! 😊

@mv4ago 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for uploading this series of videos, it's hard to believe another 20 years have since passed.

@3Phils 6 месяцев назад

Thank you. We really enjoyed making it all those years ago. Sadly, some of the great gentlemen featured are no longer with us, but we hope this will be a lasting tribute to their talents, skills and engineering ingenuity.

@MrTomYeoman 4 месяца назад

A gem of film.

@3Phils 4 месяца назад

Thank you!

@flatbrokefrank6482 5 дней назад

Excellent 3 episodes

@3Phils 5 дней назад

Thank you! 😊

@steveinskip4897 6 месяцев назад

What a fantastic series of vids. Lovely to see the guys working together again and thanks very much for uploading these.

@3Phils 6 месяцев назад

Our pleasure - glad you enjoyed it!

@kerrydunn7760 6 месяцев назад

Hi Norman its Kerry its now nearly 2024 oh how i wish like everyone else to be able to ride those bikes back in the day or even own one today top vid thank you

@practicalplinking6133 6 месяцев назад

I know people that would do dispicable things for an oppourtunity at that !!

@garybaker2683 6 месяцев назад

Brilliant memories to look at and listen to.

@3Phils 6 месяцев назад

Thank you - glad you enjoyed it!

@Desmo900SS 6 месяцев назад

Wonderful !!! 👍

@3Phils 6 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@nickohare7187 6 месяцев назад

Fantastic series of videos thanks a lot

@3Phils 6 месяцев назад

Our pleasure - glad you like them!

@richardjohnson3463 4 месяца назад

Fantastic!

@3Phils 4 месяца назад

Glad you like it! 😊

@carsyoungtimerfreak1149 6 месяцев назад

Splendid! Thank you very much. So many memories... also of the Rickman Metisses. Very elegant bikes.

@3Phils 6 месяцев назад

So pleased you enjoyed it - we felt honoured to be allowed to make it all those years ago!

@martinjefferies666 6 месяцев назад

What an amazing bunch of guys. I wonder how many years of training and experience they have between them that made this fantastic work possible, I found it quite humbling to watch. Thanks for posting this brilliant series of videos

@3Phils 6 месяцев назад

Thank you. They were a charming and extremely skilled and talented group of gentlemen, and it was an utter privilege to observe them at work. Between them, there would have been over a century of engineering experience back in 2004!

@martinjefferies666 6 месяцев назад

@@3Phils and not a day of it wasted. You can't buy experience and you showcased theirs very respectfully, thanks for replying

@howardosborne8647 6 месяцев назад

@@martinjefferies666 Well said,Martin. When asked about the most important attributes relating to engineering or technical projects I always respond with "there is no substitute for experience"

@moriwaki1105 6 месяцев назад

Outstanding Work and sheer dedication......that Number 11 bike.....W O W .

@muzza881 6 месяцев назад

Great to see such skilled people in action.

@jonnaylor3154 6 месяцев назад

God bless you Chaps!! Well ✔

@colvinator1611 6 месяцев назад

Great team ! Great history ! Great sound ! Thanks a lot for the video.

@3Phils 6 месяцев назад

Thank you! It was an absolute delight to film with those folk all those years ago. When Norman first started those bikes up, there were grins all round!

@colvinator1611 6 месяцев назад

@@3Phils I remember a certain Mr Cooper at Mallory............BUT ............I believe he was on a triple. Mr Agostini would remember.

@jochenwagner5170 6 месяцев назад

Phantastic! Thank you very much!🍀

@ralfmuller4823 6 месяцев назад

Gentlemen, great work, it made me gooseskin to see those enthuiasts doing what they love and may be what they are living for. I am looking foreward to see and to here the cosworth engine running.

@kenc4104 6 месяцев назад

Fantrastic series. I recall chatting often with Peter Williams at his dealership in Southampton after his accident . Nice guy.

@3Phils 6 месяцев назад

Never got to meet him in person, but when the video was being filmed it was clear from what all the chaps said that he was held in very high regard.

@howardosborne8647 6 месяцев назад

@@3Phils Peter was indeed a highly talented and visionary designer and engineer and a top racer too. From the Arter Matchless to the Cosworth twin,Peter brought some very futuristic engineering thinking to bear.

@kenc4104 6 месяцев назад

@@3Phils Wow, I just looked Peter up, and he died a couple of years ago at 81 years of age. 81! In my minds eye he was mid to late 30s. Time is not my friend.

@3Phils 6 месяцев назад

Yes, sadly Peter Williams, Peter Pykett and John McLaren are no longer with us.

@MrWhothefoxthat 29 дней назад

the skills from these men are what's lacking in this country, we had it and let it all go.

@3Phils 29 дней назад

Couldn’t agree more, although I’d add that Norman White is still applying his skills at the Thruxton Circuit. Two of those amazing chaps in that video, made twenty years ago now, are sadly no longer with us. Both wonderful gentlemen and it was a privilege to meet them and witness their painstaking work.

@jayhart1353 5 месяцев назад

I presume this monocoque was what Norman White and Peter Williams brought out to New Zealand about 10 years ago. I was lucky to get 5 mins with Norman and the bike with the fairing off and shown some of the modifications.

@3Phils 5 месяцев назад

Yes, and Norman is still going strong at his Thruxton Circuit workshop - nothing seems to slow that man down! Thanks for the comment.

@practicalplinking6133 6 месяцев назад

What a wonderful video !! Thank you !!

@hilbilchillbil 6 месяцев назад

Great series thanks for sharing 👍

@3Phils 6 месяцев назад

Thank you! It was an honour and pleasure for us to film it all those years ago.

@deanhackett349 6 месяцев назад

Awesome!

@3Phils 6 месяцев назад

Thank you - glad you enjoyed it!

@rustyrims05 6 месяцев назад

My friend raced the early 70s Rickman eight valve ‘ world beater’ at the Manx gp in the mid nineties. That used to try to make itself into horizontally split crankcases with depressing regularity. It was also the loudest bike in the paddock.

@3Phils 6 месяцев назад

Would have loved to have heard that! Thanks for the comment.

@howardosborne8647 6 месяцев назад

By the time the full Weslake modifications had been included there weren't many Triumph parts left to see. They eventually made these 8 valve engines dependable enough that they didn't go off like a poorly made grenade🤣

@phillpearson7531 6 месяцев назад

I saw Peter Williams ride one at Daytona. I think it was in 1973.

@caribman10 5 месяцев назад

These would make nice street bikes with sensible steering lock....

@stephendavies4210 6 месяцев назад

Properblokes...no turkey teeth,no tatts no bollocks!!!!!!

@stephendavies4210 6 месяцев назад

sorry.no bullshit

@tomhanley-li6nc 8 дней назад

perfection is a state of mind. how long will it work who knows boo hoo

@markhancock7527 6 месяцев назад

The bike transporter was parked near Boxhill in surrey for many years its now gone any ideas where it went ?

@3Phils 6 месяцев назад

Sorry, no idea. If you want to pursue it further you could try getting in touch with Norman White at the Thruxton Circuit, he still has his workshop there. There’s a link in the credits at the end of Part 3, or a quick Google search should do it.