Try our new info resource - "Aladdin's Cave" (Main menu)Just added a separate link to Ash's Dropbox thread (shortcut)
Weren't the blue one's and subsequent white Nortons JPN as in plain John Player Norton.They were pretty quick with Mr Williams and Mr Croxford on them.
Tenuous link but same frame type and interesting project. http://www.laverdamania.net/Laila4.htm
Quote from: Tomb on December 06, 2018, 09:57:05 AMEven the genuine Soper bike didn't sell at £8000 https://online.handh.co.uk/m/lot-details/index/catalog/70/lot/1868/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kQ2hYA9segOften wondered why nobody re-framed the cb750 in the 70's (for racing) - surely they would have been faster than the Nortons and Triumph Triples of the time.
Even the genuine Soper bike didn't sell at £8000 https://online.handh.co.uk/m/lot-details/index/catalog/70/lot/1868/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kQ2hYA9seg
Think I'm right in saying that Honda always did well at the start of racing at Daytona at that time, but the cam chains and tensioners failed leaving BSA/Triumph to go on and win.
Honda were building little six cylinder Swiss watches