If you like this, have a search on here for 'Wiz Norton Classic TT'' It's Josh Brookes doing a full practice lap on the Norton Rotary.Wiz Norton have uploaded a few video's on here.
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That's how you confirm it's an orginal british motorcycle. The other way takes a bit longer: let it stand for a night, and check if there is a puddle of oil under it.
@KC JONES Not 3 firing per RPM. Eccentric shaft only turn 1/3 of rotor turn. You fire trice/revolution but your RPM output also reduced by trice. So you only get 1 bang/revolution as output
Rotary's still have clearly defined suck, squeeze, bang and blow sections in it's rotation so it's still a 4 stroke. Just one that makes power in every rotation.
That's one fabulous machine and soundtrack, at times almost two stroke-like. I'll never forget the sharp, trumpet-like blare of Mazda's RX-792P four-rotor IMSA car immersing all of Laguna Seca with its glorious song. Bouncing off the hillsides, the sound seemed omni-directional in a way that nothing else did. I cannot remember who won that day, my only memory is hearing that Mazda!
Indy cars at Laguna or Superbikes everything sounds good there. But doesn't come close to the sound of Top Fuel at Sonoma thundering through the hills.
I used to marshal at Brands Hatch when these were racing there. Steve Spray was one of the riders. They wore black leathers to match the bikes and we called them the men in black.
@@ThomasDoubting5 very successful. They were difficult to homologate as they are a rotary and dificult to compere to a normal piston engine. So in my opinion they had a slight advantage in power.
Some guy earlier on was criticising me because I'm not interested in electric bikes after commenting on a bike review. And after hearing this amazing machine the thought of silent bikes riding round the TT course just depresses me. If electric is the future of Motorsport over the next 20 to 30 years then count me out. I'm off to my man cave to dig out my old DVDs and watch some Joey Dunlop.
Right there with ya Mark. Oh and the irony; this modern generation(not all, but most) doesn’t have enough passion and interest to support electric racing anyway. Their heads are too busy looking down at a cell phone to know there’s a world around them!
I am behind you 10,000 percent. These are the imbeciles commenting that don't even follow the sport. They would be all too happy to kill the sport with electric bikes. It makes no difference to them they're watching tennis anyway!
Neil Cowan Yay let’s move on to 5g and all get ourselves fried and mutated on a cellular level. And get all kinds of cool cancers so big pharma can treat us with more poisonous crap. And let’s all have electric cars raping the world of rare earth 🌍 metals. And nasty dirty metals in battery cells. YAY PROGRESS
This was actually the HR-3 engine, developed by Mazda. Mazda’s Hiroaki Siroka was working with Nortons Ted Stevens, for most of the late 70’s to early 80’s to develop this engine. Siroka just recently died. Mazda, & Norton owe him so much!!
You actually don't need a tacho. You can feel when the ports stop making power. If you haven't driven or riden a rotary. Do it. The smoothness is something you can only experience to fully understand.
@ this is going to sound crazy but the truth is that I've never had mine running.....it's missing the factory fuel tank and needs a voltage regulator. I've owned it for 22yrs and wanted to use it to race at the Bonneville salt flats. I have a turbo to help the power. My goal was 200mph. At first I thought about using my 75z1 900 but I sold it to a guy as a project for him and his son to rebuild....from Wyoming USA 🔫🤠🇺🇸
@@billallen4793 No shortage of used parts available for them Bill. They won't fit anything else Lol. Will a turbo work on a Wankel engine? They don't work on two strokes as far as I'm aware.
@ I've ridden a few turbo 2stroke sleds!! They work WELL .... way better than nitrous.. especially in the cold... hard to keep the bottle warm without a electronic blanket heater....the turbo's I plan on using are oil bath berring and water cooled so hopefully I can plumb into the Suzuki lines... what has stopped the build is me....I am disabled after work injury...happened in 03 haven't worked on a toy since 05ish after a failed back surgery... I had almost finished rebuilding my old flattracker that was laying in the corner of the shop and I had most of the parts so it got around 90% done ,then went in for the operation. after that walking and standing are hard to do..lol.. it's a kawi bighorn 350 single cylinder, rotary disk, 2stroke... mine's a 72 or 73 I'll have to look...we emptied my last storage semi trailer at the end of December my shop is full so she's out in the snow for the first time in years if ever...my drag boat is even outside covered in snow in the driveway... I only have a 2 car garage now that we moved to town 2 years ago...my wife is disabled now also and we couldn't take care of the property and livestock anymore so we finally found a little house with a garage/shop and my shop is full of what I think is cool stuff...my wife says its silly but I like old things...🤠
Absolutely nothing can replace or mimic the sound of the Norton it's insane Trevor Nation must have thought all his wildest dreams had come true if only to hear that sound on the racetrack again 👍💯🔥🔥👌
I remember seeing these race at Snetterton in Norfolk, they were a bag of spanners in the corners but as soon as they got anywhere near a straight, they were gone, made other superbikes look like mopeds going up a steep hill.
I'm from the Isle of Man (I'm Manx), and watched these race in the TT many times. If I remember right, one of the first riders on the Rotary Norton was Simon Buckmaster I think his surname was? Then there was Trevor Nation and Robert Dunlop, followed by the late GREAT Steve Hislop - my god, he was something else!! I miss it all so much - those were the days! I remember it happened only once - TWO Nortons went past me together, WHAT a memory, an amazing moment!
Wow that's was an exciting ride I worked on the Mazda rotary in my younger years , the RX 7 was my favorite , they had sedans RX 3 Thank you for sharing , I'm inpressed .
What a wonderful sound. I saw the Mazda RX-792P race at Luguna Seca. It had a 2.6 L Rotary-4 putting out over 650 horsepower! That car sounded awesome. Could hear it coming well before it went past. Sounded like it was ripping the space-time continuum!
Love that bike I watched the 2000 north west when Robert Dunlop won amazing piece of machinery,it's great that guys like this take them to shows etc for us all to enjoy ,it's put a smile on my face.👋🏻👍🏻🇬🇧🙏🏼
This thing is *BANANAS* !! As a fan of the Mazda RX7, I never knew that such a bike existed. The sound of this bike is like music to my ears, definitely a dream bike! Brap brappp
"Lovely bike, kept in fantastic condition" The rev counter, the one thing that you use on track to make sure it stays together, doesn't work "Yeah, apart from that" Strewth.
I am a fan of the Wankel rotary engine have owned various Mazda's over the years. They were nicknamed chook chasers,egg beaters and rotisseries. I new guys who would put these motors in Toyota ta22 celicas, Mazda mx5's and early model small Datsuns. Turbo chargers and fuel injection made big horse power increases. I still own a twin distributer 10a the first rotary once put into a Mazda R100, I was thinking of building a buggy and putting the motor into that. Your video has now changed my mind I will search the motor bike wreckers for a frame that I can use to put this motor into. With my work place closed down because of covid 19 I have the time to begin this project. Thanks so much for posting this video I loved watching and hearing this beast of a bike on the track. Thank to all involved
As a kid watching Rocket Ron race at snetterton park the sound of this down the straight from pit lane was awesome........ and the fire spitting looked cool aswell.
@@randallburgess46 Alot of amateur enthusiasts make the mistake of thinking a Wankel bike and a Rotary bike are the same thing... it's because they don't know anything about the development history of the motorcycle. Any questions lad?
I watched Trevor Nation, Robert Dunlop, and Steve Spray race these on short circuits and the TT back in the day, they never failed to impress or make the hairs stand up on my neck !
Brian Crighton created & developed the Norton rotary - he's now creating a modern 200+bhp lightweight rotary racebike - check out Gilo Industries / Rotron / Crighton racing
@flip inheck That's why they still build them in Great Britain for use world wide in military drones. Two companies in the Great Britain build them, the one Brian Crighton is now using was made by one of these companies
Hey I was only talking to a buddy last week about Trevor nation and Steve spray. Then this popped up I like good coincidences. I was at donnington park and watched them wheelie 1 and 2 across the line. Never forget that weekend ever. Thanks for the post awesome.🏁🇬🇧💯
is it me or does it still sound like a tethered rottweiler? i still have memories of Trevor Nation racing at Donnington. Its the only bike I've ever seen spitting fire but still producing a vapour trail from the fairing . Awsome!!!!
I think I first saw these things live at Silverstone and they were firing out these huge blue flames from the exhaust pipe. Probably roasted any rider who was behind
Got banned from racing,cornering & braking not so good but xcel & straight line speeds where breathtaking.Went up to bike muesem just to see them.HISTORY.
It got banned from racing for the same reason Slippery Sam got banned. As Norton had stopped producing bikes the required number of bike could not be built.
Saw these practicing back in the day in Pembrey racetrack, also have a photo of me on Steve Spray’s bike at the NEC show around 1990 ish, awesome machines
Bit ironic that a Norton should have a Spondon frame but thinking about it the featherbed was made by the Irish McCandless brothers and the frame and fork internals of the Commando were Matchless, so post war they never did much of anything in the frame department.
Worked at Mallory park 12 yrs ago , saw a race with these bikes with most of the riders who originally rode them , R Dunlop , Trevor Nation ,, etc cheers shane uk 🇬🇧
Great video I remember a practice day at Mallory park possible 1989 I think Trevor nation and Ron Haslam out on them flames out the exhaust all the time and very quick great days
In 89 it would be Trev and Steve Spray, Haslam joined in 1990 after Spray had been sacked and stayed as lone official pilot when Trev got the boot too.
This has got to be hands-down the best audio recording of a running Norton rotary out there.
Well done, Boxer! You had the mic setup bang-on!
If you like this, have a search on here for 'Wiz Norton Classic TT'' It's Josh Brookes doing a full practice lap on the Norton Rotary.Wiz Norton have uploaded a few video's on here.
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the rev counter and temp gauge "fack it we give up and just listen"
That's how you confirm it's an orginal british motorcycle. The other way takes a bit longer: let it stand for a night, and check if there is a puddle of oil under it.
@@JCGver And if the electrical system fails, then it has genuine Lucas electrics.
As a Norton owner 73 and 75 that's just normal for the gages
@@CZ350tuner Is Lucas the Prince of darkness
Sounds like a leaned out two stroke engine. LOVE IT.
I love how in certain rpm ranges the exhaust pulses combine into what seems to be a single sound and it’s great 👍🏻
Because virtually rotary fire every one revolution. Make it looks like two-stroke
@KC JONES Not 3 firing per RPM. Eccentric shaft only turn 1/3 of rotor turn. You fire trice/revolution but your RPM output also reduced by trice. So you only get 1 bang/revolution as output
kaito lino eccentric shaft turns 3 times per revolution of the rotor. Hence the ability of rotary engines to rev so high.
Rotary's still have clearly defined suck, squeeze, bang and blow sections in it's rotation so it's still a 4 stroke. Just one that makes power in every rotation.
The needle on the tacho has died from excitement!
Rotary like : what a hell RPM is?
Haha, yes it would seem so!
What a machine!
I think the calibration is off
Gareth or like all scitsu tachs the battery died just when you need it :)
Yes, amazing sound as it revs 500-1000 rpm redline!
That's one fabulous machine and soundtrack, at times almost two stroke-like. I'll never forget the sharp, trumpet-like blare of Mazda's RX-792P four-rotor IMSA car immersing all of Laguna Seca with its glorious song. Bouncing off the hillsides, the sound seemed omni-directional in a way that nothing else did. I cannot remember who won that day, my only memory is hearing that Mazda!
Indy cars at Laguna or Superbikes everything sounds good there. But doesn't come close to the sound of Top Fuel at Sonoma thundering through the hills.
@@sickofalldabscensorship721 Been there, it'll rattle your lungs, like a nice massage lol
I used to marshal at Brands Hatch when these were racing there. Steve Spray was one of the riders. They wore black leathers to match the bikes and we called them the men in black.
Great story, thanks for sharing 👍🏻
Was they successful?
@@ThomasDoubting5 very successful.
They were difficult to homologate as they are a rotary and dificult to compere to a normal piston engine. So in my opinion they had a slight advantage in power.
I remember Trevor Nation winning the MCN Superbike class in '89.
@@MarkSiosal
Yep, thanks for reminding me.
Those were the best days as a race marshal I ever had.
Some guy earlier on was criticising me because I'm not interested in electric bikes after commenting on a bike review. And after hearing this amazing machine the thought of silent bikes riding round the TT course just depresses me. If electric is the future of Motorsport over the next 20 to 30 years then count me out. I'm off to my man cave to dig out my old DVDs and watch some Joey Dunlop.
Right there with ya Mark. Oh and the irony; this modern generation(not all, but most) doesn’t have enough passion and interest to support electric racing anyway. Their heads are too busy looking down at a cell phone to know there’s a world around them!
I am behind you 10,000 percent. These are the imbeciles commenting that don't even follow the sport. They would be all too happy to kill the sport with electric bikes. It makes no difference to them they're watching tennis anyway!
And thats how it should be. Maybe Sadly. I get the nostalgia but the world moves on.
@@henry8333 there is no 10000 percent... and you call other people imbeciles?
Neil Cowan Yay let’s move on to 5g and all get ourselves fried and mutated on a cellular level. And get all kinds of cool cancers so big pharma can treat us with more poisonous crap. And let’s all have electric cars raping the world of rare earth 🌍 metals. And nasty dirty metals in battery cells. YAY PROGRESS
love the two strokes but a rotary is even better ♥️
Lovely to see and hear this being ridden not just sitting in a museum 😎👍🏻
Just brilliant. You had to be there to appreciate just how fast and loud these legends were !!
This was actually the HR-3 engine, developed by Mazda. Mazda’s Hiroaki Siroka was working with Nortons Ted Stevens, for most of the late 70’s to early 80’s to develop this engine. Siroka just recently died. Mazda, & Norton owe him so much!!
Well put good Sir, i will second that.
but they all owe Felix Wankel more.....
@@crozwayne but thats like thanking Henry Ford, for the Bugatti’s W16!
R.I.P Genius.
Genuinely - how tis video hasn’t blown up, I’m never understand.
Brilliant audio, Boxer.
Yeah, tell me about about it. It's tough going getting a the views these days!
Super cool! I have owned a Norton 1971 Commando (rebuilt as a Combat engine) for 40 years. I love Nortons!
I was lucky enough to see and hear these race st the IoM TT in the mid 90's.
I saw them at Cadwell Park in the early 90s awesome days
You actually don't need a tacho. You can feel when the ports stop making power. If you haven't driven or riden a rotary. Do it. The smoothness is something you can only experience to fully understand.
@ I still have a re5!! Mine's a 75 model with the funny dash....from Wyoming USA 🔫🤠🇺🇸
@ this is going to sound crazy but the truth is that I've never had mine running.....it's missing the factory fuel tank and needs a voltage regulator. I've owned it for 22yrs and wanted to use it to race at the Bonneville salt flats. I have a turbo to help the power. My goal was 200mph. At first I thought about using my 75z1 900 but I sold it to a guy as a project for him and his son to rebuild....from Wyoming USA 🔫🤠🇺🇸
Yes yes yes
@@billallen4793 No shortage of used parts available for them Bill. They won't fit anything else Lol. Will a turbo work on a Wankel engine? They don't work on two strokes as far as I'm aware.
@ I've ridden a few turbo 2stroke sleds!! They work WELL .... way better than nitrous.. especially in the cold... hard to keep the bottle warm without a electronic blanket heater....the turbo's I plan on using are oil bath berring and water cooled so hopefully I can plumb into the Suzuki lines... what has stopped the build is me....I am disabled after work injury...happened in 03 haven't worked on a toy since 05ish after a failed back surgery... I had almost finished rebuilding my old flattracker that was laying in the corner of the shop and I had most of the parts so it got around 90% done ,then went in for the operation. after that walking and standing are hard to do..lol.. it's a kawi bighorn 350 single cylinder, rotary disk, 2stroke... mine's a 72 or 73 I'll have to look...we emptied my last storage semi trailer at the end of December my shop is full so she's out in the snow for the first time in years if ever...my drag boat is even outside covered in snow in the driveway... I only have a 2 car garage now that we moved to town 2 years ago...my wife is disabled now also and we couldn't take care of the property and livestock anymore so we finally found a little house with a garage/shop and my shop is full of what I think is cool stuff...my wife says its silly but I like old things...🤠
1990 Trevor Nation Cadwell Park in Lincolnshire.... amazing sound .... i even bought a JPS Norton golf brolly. Those were the days
Absolutely nothing can replace or mimic the sound of the Norton it's insane Trevor Nation must have thought all his wildest dreams had come true if only to hear that sound on the racetrack again 👍💯🔥🔥👌
🙌🏻
RIP Robert Dunlop. One of the greats!
Incredible it didn’t even go over 1k rpm imagine if it made it all the way to 13/14k
I know, if it can do this at tick-over just imagine what it would do once it was in the power band 🤪
lol
Bia Tch r/wooooooosh
The tach is broken, jeez.
@@DeinBramage trolled...
Beautiful sound & very well ridden considering how unique this bike is!
I remember seeing these race at Snetterton in Norfolk, they were a bag of spanners in the corners but as soon as they got anywhere near a straight, they were gone, made other superbikes look like mopeds going up a steep hill.
A bike engine that was built to rev and you have the camera watching a tach that doesn’t work😂
i mean, it is a british bike, so you should be thankful it runs at all.
@@nemo5335 those Rotary Nortons won a lot of races
@@pashakdescilly7517 yeah, with an entire team of mechanics and thousands in spare parts.
Cheeky!
@@nemo5335 like the other factory race teams
I'm from the Isle of Man (I'm Manx), and watched these race in the TT many times. If I remember right, one of the first riders on the Rotary Norton was Simon Buckmaster I think his surname was? Then there was Trevor Nation and Robert Dunlop, followed by the late GREAT Steve Hislop - my god, he was something else!! I miss it all so much - those were the days! I remember it happened only once - TWO Nortons went past me together, WHAT a memory, an amazing moment!
A beautiful bike that actually says “Vroom!” Love it !
Me and my family used to follow these bikes around the country in the Ron haslam era. Good memories.
Awesome watched them race the domestic championship in the UK thing of beauty.
Amazing machine, beautifully maintained! Thanks Steve for sharing it with us :)
Wow that's was an exciting ride
I worked on the Mazda rotary in my younger years , the RX 7 was my favorite , they had sedans RX 3
Thank you for sharing , I'm inpressed .
What a wonderful sound. I saw the Mazda RX-792P race at Luguna Seca. It had a 2.6 L Rotary-4 putting out over 650 horsepower! That car sounded awesome. Could hear it coming well before it went past. Sounded like it was ripping the space-time continuum!
Love that bike I watched the 2000 north west when Robert Dunlop won amazing piece of machinery,it's great that guys like this take them to shows etc for us all to enjoy ,it's put a smile on my face.👋🏻👍🏻🇬🇧🙏🏼
That's quality hoonery right there. NRV 588. Lovely stuff 👌
OMG!! Imagin a new, modern and powerful 2021 Norton rotary motorcycle... daamn it wud be sooou cool.
I used to have a huge poster of Trevor Nation riding the JPS Norton my wall when I was a kid, always been a dream of mine to own or even ride one!
Wow, that’s a sound I have never heard from a motorcycle. Thanks for this thrilling video.
yo ever hear 2 stroke motorcycle ?
This thing is *BANANAS* !! As a fan of the Mazda RX7, I never knew that such a bike existed. The sound of this bike is like music to my ears, definitely a dream bike! Brap brappp
Wow, that sound is fxxxing fabulous! Great ride
Lovely sound thank you. I love pieces on bike history.
Many thanks too. 🙌🏻🙌🏻
"Lovely bike, kept in fantastic condition"
The rev counter, the one thing that you use on track to make sure it stays together, doesn't work
"Yeah, apart from that"
Strewth.
And a temperature gauge - these run on the verge of boiling point - and a sticking clutch... well prepared Dave..
what a lovely sound and bike.
I've heard of this motor for years, awesome to hear it for the first time.
They do sound amazing
Dream bike for sure. That wheelie coming out of the corner was very satisfying!
I am a fan of the Wankel rotary engine have owned various Mazda's over the years. They were nicknamed chook chasers,egg beaters and rotisseries. I new guys who would put these motors in Toyota ta22 celicas, Mazda mx5's and early model small Datsuns. Turbo chargers and fuel injection made big horse power increases. I still own a twin distributer 10a the first rotary once put into a Mazda R100, I was thinking of building a buggy and putting the motor into that. Your video has now changed my mind I will search the motor bike wreckers for a frame that I can use to put this motor into. With my work place closed down because of covid 19 I have the time to begin this project. Thanks so much for posting this video I loved watching and hearing this beast of a bike on the track. Thank to all involved
As a kid watching Rocket Ron race at snetterton park the sound of this down the straight from pit lane was awesome........ and the fire spitting looked cool aswell.
This thing sounds like a demented banshee. I love it. Cool wheelie at 6.16 too 🤘
I never knew Norton made a rotary engine! Awesome! Great video.
They didn't... Norton only made Wankel engines.
@@sandervanderkammen9230 that’s what a Wankel motor is, it’s a rotary engine. Look at the title, Norton Rotary
@@randallburgess46 Wow! You not a real motorcycle enthusiasts at all are you?
@@randallburgess46 Alot of amateur enthusiasts make the mistake of thinking a Wankel bike and a Rotary bike are the same thing... it's because they don't know anything about the development history of the motorcycle.
Any questions lad?
@@sandervanderkammen9230 you are a fool. A "rotary engine" and "wankel engine" are the same thing. The terms can be used interchangeably.
Nice! A dude next door has a full restored Kawasaki 750 triple 2 stroke, sounds awesome.
Superb!
Some nice classics in the background too
4:34 love how the rev gage is not working! But we can hear it for sure. Sweet!
I watched Trevor Nation, Robert Dunlop, and Steve Spray race these on short circuits and the TT back in the day, they never failed to impress or make the hairs stand up on my neck !
Robert Dunlop's bike! What a piece of history! Lucky guy!
This is not Dunlops bike, his machine was reframed with a Spondon chassis and single sided swing arm in 2008.
That's gotta be the coolest bike I've ever seen
Pretty bloody awesome bikes
Definitely cool. I didn't know that there was a rotary motorcycle engine made. Great video. Thanks
OMG what a beautiful sound!
Truly A Classic Sound...Badass & Raw lndeed, Sir! Ain't NOTHING Like lt Made Today, Thats For Sure!
Great coverage! Love to see another manufacturer do a modern rotary bike.
Brian Crighton created & developed the Norton rotary - he's now creating a modern 200+bhp lightweight rotary racebike - check out Gilo Industries / Rotron / Crighton racing
@flip inheck That's why they still build them in Great Britain for use world wide in military drones. Two companies in the Great Britain build them, the one Brian Crighton is now using was made by one of these companies
Wankel engines were an evolutionary dead end... no longer manufactured in series production anywhere in the world.
@@craigarnold457 Gilo doesn't even make the Wankel for it's paragliders anymore.
Hey I was only talking to a buddy last week about Trevor nation and Steve spray. Then this popped up I like good coincidences. I was at donnington park and watched them wheelie 1 and 2 across the line. Never forget that weekend ever. Thanks for the post awesome.🏁🇬🇧💯
And they would have been FAST down the straight at Donnington too!
Bloody hell. It certainly eats distance! Spectacular.
the tacho is hiding in the 16 - 24k rpm range
Saw this bike back in the day. You could hear it before you saw it !
What a sound! sheer pleasure.
That was so exciting loads of power
Jesus, what a sound
is it me or does it still sound like a tethered rottweiler? i still have memories of Trevor Nation racing at Donnington. Its the only bike I've ever seen spitting fire but still producing a vapour trail from the fairing . Awsome!!!!
It sounds amazing on the track and Steve was riding it appropriately too
I think I first saw these things live at Silverstone and they were firing out these huge blue flames from the exhaust pipe. Probably roasted any rider who was behind
@ian cain
That _had_ to be intimidating 😁
Is it "normal/OK" to keep watching this video over and over just so you can listen to that beautiful engine? I don't care what people think!
Dynamite. Awesome riding along.
Got banned from racing,cornering & braking not so good but xcel & straight line speeds where breathtaking.Went up to bike muesem just to see them.HISTORY.
It got banned from racing for the same reason Slippery Sam got banned. As Norton had stopped producing bikes the required number of bike could not be built.
Very special bike
Great video
what a sound, perfect.
Saw these practicing back in the day in Pembrey racetrack, also have a photo of me on Steve Spray’s bike at the NEC show around 1990 ish, awesome machines
I remember the first time I ever saw a rotary bike in 2010. It was a Suk Re5. That thing shook the earth. Scary machines they are
I remember watching JPS Norton’s come first and second all the time when I was a kid, at brands hatch and donnington park .
Amazing how it idles all the way around the course with such speed.
Robert Dunlop war eine Legende
Sound is Amazing
That was the first bike I ever wanted. I was only a kid at the time but it stuck with me. Wish they weren't so rare and expensive now.
They are rare because Wankel bikes were a failure... Norton went bankrupt because Wankel engines.
Sweet rotary insane sound.
Wow the sound is awesome
ive never really wanted to own a motor bike, or a rotary powered car, but damn... this thing i would own in a heartbeat what a beauty
Bit ironic that a Norton should have a Spondon frame but thinking about it the featherbed was made by the Irish McCandless brothers and the frame and fork internals of the Commando were Matchless, so post war they never did much of anything in the frame department.
Michael Egan the Modern failed Norton came out of Spondon, infact Garner bought into spondon then bankrupted it buying the Norton name
Rex Mc Candless and co were not Irish.
Saw the first creighton norton at Darley Moor awesome
lovely sound
I love how the tachometer doesn't even work and when he got scared and laid off when it started to pop a wheelie so great!!!
He only just got the bike before the event. It’s all fixed now
I have actually risen a Norton Interpol rotary engine bike in the army amazing machine
Super peace of history no doubt !
Very cool.
Oh, and I like that 1 foot high concrete barrier wall.
Pure bliss
Love Adelaide’s track! Beast of a bike
its sounds like a RX7 without exhoust awesome sound! Love rotarys!
My dream bike since they first appeared.
Worked at Mallory park 12 yrs ago , saw a race with these bikes with most of the riders who originally rode them , R Dunlop , Trevor Nation ,, etc cheers shane uk 🇬🇧
That would have been amazing to watch!
Great video I remember a practice day at Mallory park possible 1989 I think Trevor nation and Ron Haslam out on them flames out the exhaust all the time and very quick great days
In 89 it would be Trev and Steve Spray, Haslam joined in 1990 after Spray had been sacked and stayed as lone official pilot when Trev got the boot too.
When everything on streetbike mag front cover had either spondon or Harris
Brilliant, watched Ron Haslam & Trevor Nation racing these bikes in anger at Cadwell Park in my younger days🥰
Over the mountain!
I remember seeing these race at Cadwell Park in the 90s they where awesome
This bike looks like it just wants to run. Superb.
Love the Adelaide streets :)
Wow excellent sound
Amazing bike💖👌
I would love to hear a flyby😍