Norton

I can't remember but I'm sure my brother had one, among others, I remember
hearing something about one that was a 700 something or other, I was given a
ride on that one. I know that at the time it was supposed to be quite a
powerful one. This is going back into the 50's

--
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http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher
http://lachsoft.com/photogallery

"Shane" wrote in message
...
No Joan, unfortunately not. And they don't even make the rotary-engined
Command-er that did so very well in the road racing not so long ago!

Even when we can *still* make something really well the powers-that-be
allow
it to fail.


Shane

"Joan Archer" wrote in message
...
Do they still make them ?

--
Joan Archer
http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher
http://lachsoft.com/photogallery

wrote in message
...
On Oct 22, 3:32 pm, "Heirloom" wrote:
"Norton for Dummies"............what's wrong with that??? Who else
would
anything Norton be for?


Norton for Commandos?

Now that is a bike!

Shane

LOL!! I have goofed on this one before and I will ask him when he gets
back. The Loon knows which one it is....being a *bike freak*. The word
Aerial comes to mind as well.

No, his name is *Renaldo y Jose y Maria y Smith*.....grin.

"Shane" wrote in message
...
I'd guess an ES2 then. Can't imagine an Inter on Jamaica somehow. Last
time
I saw one of those was at Bracknell Motorcycle Auction in about '76.
Or
rather parked outside. I went up on the back of a mate's 350
Matchless. Very
pretty in the stately silver way Nortons of the pre-rocker era usually
were!
And the guy who took me to that auction is the only one besides myself
I
knew from the old days who still rode a Bonnie in the 21st Century.

Yes, do ask him what it was.

Sure his name isn't really Ernesto?

Shane


"Heather" wrote in message
...
I think Ron had a Norton bike in Jamaica......I will have to ask him.
Whatever he had, he messed up and never rode one again. Wussie!!
(G)

Figgs (and we are talking *OLD* here.....this would have been late
'40's)

"Shane" wrote in message
...
No Joan, unfortunately not. And they don't even make the
rotary-engined
Command-er that did so very well in the road racing not so long
ago!

Even when we can *still* make something really well the
powers-that-be
allow
it to fail.


Shane

"Joan Archer" wrote in message
...
Do they still make them ?

--
Joan Archer
http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher
http://lachsoft.com/photogallery

wrote in message

...
On Oct 22, 3:32 pm, "Heirloom"
wrote:
"Norton for Dummies"............what's wrong with that??? Who
else
would
anything Norton be for?


Norton for Commandos?

Now that is a bike!

Shane

Basically, talking about the twins - which it sounds very much like what
your brother would have had, then, there was the 500 Dominator, the 600
Dominator, the 650 SS - and the 700 Atlas - which had a Matchless engine.
Then came the various 750 Commandos and eventually the 850 Commando. All
very wonderful machines!

Joan Archer wrote:
I can't remember but I'm sure my brother had one, among others, I
remember hearing something about one that was a 700 something or
other, I was given a ride on that one. I know that at the time it was
supposed to be quite a powerful one. This is going back into the 50's


"Shane" wrote in message
...
No Joan, unfortunately not. And they don't even make the
rotary-engined Command-er that did so very well in the road racing
not so long ago! Even when we can *still* make something really well the
powers-that-be allow
it to fail.


Shane

"Joan Archer" wrote in message
...
Do they still make them ?

--
Joan Archer
http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher
http://lachsoft.com/photogallery

wrote in message
...
On Oct 22, 3:32 pm, "Heirloom" wrote:
"Norton for Dummies"............what's wrong with that??? Who
else would
anything Norton be for?


Norton for Commandos?

Now that is a bike!

Shane

Heather wrote:
LOL!! I have goofed on this one before and I will ask him when he
gets back. The Loon knows which one it is....being a *bike freak*. The
word Aerial comes to mind as well.


There were no shortage of Ariels. I would guess a Hunter of some sort (350
and 500 singles):
http://www.barkshire.co.uk/bikes/ima...2006%20008.jpg
but there were the square fours:
http://www.britishclassicmotorcycles...4522327139.jpg
another of those old Brit designs that the Japanese emulated decades later
and most people thought was new and daring. Not to take anything away from
the Japs though!




No, his name is *Renaldo y Jose y Maria y Smith*.....grin.

He must have been before his time in so many ways!


Shane



"Shane" wrote in message
...
I'd guess an ES2 then. Can't imagine an Inter on Jamaica somehow.
Last time
I saw one of those was at Bracknell Motorcycle Auction in about '76.
Or
rather parked outside. I went up on the back of a mate's 350
Matchless. Very
pretty in the stately silver way Nortons of the pre-rocker era
usually were!
And the guy who took me to that auction is the only one besides
myself I
knew from the old days who still rode a Bonnie in the 21st Century.

Yes, do ask him what it was.

Sure his name isn't really Ernesto?

Shane


"Heather" wrote in message
...
I think Ron had a Norton bike in Jamaica......I will have to ask
him. Whatever he had, he messed up and never rode one again. Wussie!!
(G)

Figgs (and we are talking *OLD* here.....this would have been late
'40's)

"Shane" wrote in message
...
No Joan, unfortunately not. And they don't even make the
rotary-engined
Command-er that did so very well in the road racing not so long
ago!

Even when we can *still* make something really well the
powers-that-be
allow
it to fail.


Shane

"Joan Archer" wrote in message
...
Do they still make them ?

--
Joan Archer
http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher
http://lachsoft.com/photogallery

wrote in message

...
On Oct 22, 3:32 pm, "Heirloom"
wrote:
"Norton for Dummies"............what's wrong with that??? Who
else
would
anything Norton be for?


Norton for Commandos?

Now that is a bike!

Shane

"Shane" wrote in message
...
Heather wrote:
LOL!! I have goofed on this one before and I will ask him when he
gets back. The Loon knows which one it is....being a *bike freak*.
The word Aerial comes to mind as well.


There were no shortage of Ariels. I would guess a Hunter of some sort
(350 and 500 singles):

Good man!! He is standing behind me and says it was an "Ariel 500
Single" and he bought it here in Canada and it was a 1951 model. Looks
like that picture you posted the link for.

He almost ran into the back of a car and scared himself ****less....so
he sold it. (G)

Heather & the Old Guy
http://www.barkshire.co.uk/bikes/ima...2006%20008.jpg
but there were the square fours:
http://www.britishclassicmotorcycles...4522327139.jpg
another of those old Brit designs that the Japanese emulated decades
later and most people thought was new and daring. Not to take anything
away from the Japs though!




No, his name is *Renaldo y Jose y Maria y Smith*.....grin.

He must have been before his time in so many ways!


Shane



"Shane" wrote in message
...
I'd guess an ES2 then. Can't imagine an Inter on Jamaica somehow.
Last time
I saw one of those was at Bracknell Motorcycle Auction in about '76.
Or
rather parked outside. I went up on the back of a mate's 350
Matchless. Very
pretty in the stately silver way Nortons of the pre-rocker era
usually were!
And the guy who took me to that auction is the only one besides
myself I
knew from the old days who still rode a Bonnie in the 21st Century.

Yes, do ask him what it was.

Sure his name isn't really Ernesto?

Shane


"Heather" wrote in message
...
I think Ron had a Norton bike in Jamaica......I will have to ask
him. Whatever he had, he messed up and never rode one again.
Wussie!! (G)

Figgs (and we are talking *OLD* here.....this would have been late
'40's)

"Shane" wrote in message
...
No Joan, unfortunately not. And they don't even make the
rotary-engined
Command-er that did so very well in the road racing not so long
ago!

Even when we can *still* make something really well the
powers-that-be
allow
it to fail.


Shane

"Joan Archer" wrote in message
...
Do they still make them ?

--
Joan Archer
http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher
http://lachsoft.com/photogallery

wrote in message

...
On Oct 22, 3:32 pm, "Heirloom"
wrote:
"Norton for Dummies"............what's wrong with that??? Who
else
would
anything Norton be for?


Norton for Commandos?

Now that is a bike!

Shane

Does he miss the single cylinder thump? I know I do!

Shane

Heather wrote:
"Shane" wrote in message
...
Heather wrote:
LOL!! I have goofed on this one before and I will ask him when he
gets back. The Loon knows which one it is....being a *bike freak*.
The word Aerial comes to mind as well.


There were no shortage of Ariels. I would guess a Hunter of some sort
(350 and 500 singles):

Good man!! He is standing behind me and says it was an "Ariel 500
Single" and he bought it here in Canada and it was a 1951 model. Looks
like that picture you posted the link for.

He almost ran into the back of a car and scared himself ****less....so
he sold it. (G)

Heather & the Old Guy
http://www.barkshire.co.uk/bikes/ima...2006%20008.jpg
but there were the square fours:
http://www.britishclassicmotorcycles...4522327139.jpg
another of those old Brit designs that the Japanese emulated decades
later and most people thought was new and daring. Not to take
anything away from the Japs though!




No, his name is *Renaldo y Jose y Maria y Smith*.....grin.

He must have been before his time in so many ways!


Shane



"Shane" wrote in message
...
I'd guess an ES2 then. Can't imagine an Inter on Jamaica somehow.
Last time
I saw one of those was at Bracknell Motorcycle Auction in about
'76. Or
rather parked outside. I went up on the back of a mate's 350
Matchless. Very
pretty in the stately silver way Nortons of the pre-rocker era
usually were!
And the guy who took me to that auction is the only one besides
myself I
knew from the old days who still rode a Bonnie in the 21st Century.

Yes, do ask him what it was.

Sure his name isn't really Ernesto?

Shane


"Heather" wrote in message
...
I think Ron had a Norton bike in Jamaica......I will have to ask
him. Whatever he had, he messed up and never rode one again.
Wussie!! (G)

Figgs (and we are talking *OLD* here.....this would have been late
'40's)

"Shane" wrote in message
...
No Joan, unfortunately not. And they don't even make the
rotary-engined
Command-er that did so very well in the road racing not so long
ago!

Even when we can *still* make something really well the
powers-that-be
allow
it to fail.


Shane

"Joan Archer" wrote in message
...
Do they still make them ?

--
Joan Archer
http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher
http://lachsoft.com/photogallery

wrote in message

...
On Oct 22, 3:32 pm, "Heirloom"
wrote:
"Norton for Dummies"............what's wrong with that??? Who
else
would
anything Norton be for?


Norton for Commandos?

Now that is a bike!

Shane

He was half asleep when I asked him your question and he laughed and
said he did miss it.....lol. Haven't a clue what you two are talking
about!!

Figgs

"Shane" wrote in message
...
Does he miss the single cylinder thump? I know I do!

Shane

Heather wrote:
"Shane" wrote in message
...
Heather wrote:
LOL!! I have goofed on this one before and I will ask him when he
gets back. The Loon knows which one it is....being a *bike freak*.
The word Aerial comes to mind as well.


There were no shortage of Ariels. I would guess a Hunter of some
sort
(350 and 500 singles):

Good man!! He is standing behind me and says it was an "Ariel 500
Single" and he bought it here in Canada and it was a 1951 model.
Looks like that picture you posted the link for.

He almost ran into the back of a car and scared himself
****less....so
he sold it. (G)

Heather & the Old Guy
http://www.barkshire.co.uk/bikes/ima...2006%20008.jpg
but there were the square fours:
http://www.britishclassicmotorcycles...4522327139.jpg
another of those old Brit designs that the Japanese emulated decades
later and most people thought was new and daring. Not to take
anything away from the Japs though!




No, his name is *Renaldo y Jose y Maria y Smith*.....grin.

He must have been before his time in so many ways!


Shane



"Shane" wrote in message
...
I'd guess an ES2 then. Can't imagine an Inter on Jamaica somehow.
Last time
I saw one of those was at Bracknell Motorcycle Auction in about
'76. Or
rather parked outside. I went up on the back of a mate's 350
Matchless. Very
pretty in the stately silver way Nortons of the pre-rocker era
usually were!
And the guy who took me to that auction is the only one besides
myself I
knew from the old days who still rode a Bonnie in the 21st
Century.

Yes, do ask him what it was.

Sure his name isn't really Ernesto?

Shane


"Heather" wrote in message
...
I think Ron had a Norton bike in Jamaica......I will have to ask
him. Whatever he had, he messed up and never rode one again.
Wussie!! (G)

Figgs (and we are talking *OLD* here.....this would have been
late
'40's)

"Shane" wrote in message
...
No Joan, unfortunately not. And they don't even make the
rotary-engined
Command-er that did so very well in the road racing not so long
ago!

Even when we can *still* make something really well the
powers-that-be
allow
it to fail.


Shane

"Joan Archer" wrote in message
...
Do they still make them ?

--
Joan Archer
http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher
http://lachsoft.com/photogallery

wrote in message

...
On Oct 22, 3:32 pm, "Heirloom"
wrote:
"Norton for Dummies"............what's wrong with that???
Who else
would
anything Norton be for?


Norton for Commandos?

Now that is a bike!

Shane

Heather wrote:
He was half asleep when I asked him your question and he laughed and
said he did miss it.....lol. Haven't a clue what you two are talking
about!!



Being kicked up the arse by God!

Or. Supposing we're talking about an engine of sufficient 'bang', which is a
combination of cylinder capacity and piston compression ration: a four
cylinder (or more) layout such as the modern car has, and most modern bikes
have, divides said bang into smaller, more rapidly delivered thumps than you
get from the single cylinder layout.

A fairly high compression twin cylinder engine - such as in the rock'n'roll
era Triumphs, Nortons and BSAs, to name just most of them, still packs a
punch but is perhaps the perfect compromise between what can become
uncomfortable after a while and what can seem so sanitised as to put one to
sleep. Of course, a 750cc Triumph (or a 1000cc triple or 1200 four) is like
having two or more 350cc single cylinder engines beneath one - but the thump
is delivered in more rapid succession than on a single, and that effects how
one 'feels' about the ride.

Kind of funny to think about it, as we have long talked of the old
(pre-Japanese) machines having 'soul', when actually I suppose it is we who
have it, just the bike brings it out! Like an elation bubbling up as you
realize - or remember - there is a valuable facet of being, normally absent
in everyday life. Helps you experience life in the Now, I suppose, to wake
from your somnambulist existence. What motorcycling is about.

I think a 350 is about the lowest capacity single you can have without
raising the compression ration that triggers this bang-induced paradigm
shift, while a high compression 250 is too raw, the thump being so jarring
as to be distracting. A big twin or multi delivers a different stimulus (you
appreciate I'm wildly hypothesizing here!), but it seems to me that this is
something to do with frequency, as in the number of bangs within a timeframe
having the potential to alter consciousness (perhaps as a form of
autosuggestion, though that is more likely in a car :-)); you know, because
a twin of twice the capacity and the same compression at the same rpm
delivers two thumps to the single's one and the only difference is they're
closer together in time and somehow that makes them more bearable?

Maybe that is what to be concious is: to be propelled from one degree of
altered state to another and that at any given moment we are not precisely
who we were just before. Anyway, there is nothing quite like riding a 350 or
500cc old Brit single cylinder motorcycle, and that part, at least, is not
raving!

Shane


Figgs

"Shane" wrote in message
...
Does he miss the single cylinder thump? I know I do!

Shane

Heather wrote:
"Shane" wrote in message
...
Heather wrote:
LOL!! I have goofed on this one before and I will ask him when he
gets back. The Loon knows which one it is....being a *bike
freak*. The word Aerial comes to mind as well.


There were no shortage of Ariels. I would guess a Hunter of some
sort
(350 and 500 singles):

Good man!! He is standing behind me and says it was an "Ariel 500
Single" and he bought it here in Canada and it was a 1951 model.
Looks like that picture you posted the link for.

He almost ran into the back of a car and scared himself
****less....so
he sold it. (G)

Heather & the Old Guy
http://www.barkshire.co.uk/bikes/ima...2006%20008.jpg
but there were the square fours:
http://www.britishclassicmotorcycles...4522327139.jpg
another of those old Brit designs that the Japanese emulated
decades later and most people thought was new and daring. Not to
take anything away from the Japs though!




No, his name is *Renaldo y Jose y Maria y Smith*.....grin.

He must have been before his time in so many ways!


Shane



"Shane" wrote in message
...
I'd guess an ES2 then. Can't imagine an Inter on Jamaica somehow.
Last time
I saw one of those was at Bracknell Motorcycle Auction in about
'76. Or
rather parked outside. I went up on the back of a mate's 350
Matchless. Very
pretty in the stately silver way Nortons of the pre-rocker era
usually were!
And the guy who took me to that auction is the only one besides
myself I
knew from the old days who still rode a Bonnie in the 21st
Century.

Yes, do ask him what it was.

Sure his name isn't really Ernesto?

Shane


"Heather" wrote in message
...
I think Ron had a Norton bike in Jamaica......I will have to ask
him. Whatever he had, he messed up and never rode one again.
Wussie!! (G)

Figgs (and we are talking *OLD* here.....this would have been
late
'40's)

"Shane" wrote in message
...
No Joan, unfortunately not. And they don't even make the
rotary-engined
Command-er that did so very well in the road racing not so long
ago!

Even when we can *still* make something really well the
powers-that-be
allow
it to fail.


Shane

"Joan Archer" wrote in message
...
Do they still make them ?

--
Joan Archer
http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher
http://lachsoft.com/photogallery

wrote in message

...
On Oct 22, 3:32 pm, "Heirloom"
wrote:
"Norton for Dummies"............what's wrong with that???
Who else
would
anything Norton be for?


Norton for Commandos?

Now that is a bike!

Shane

I hope you realise that you've completely lost her now Shane g

--
Joan Archer
http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher
http://lachsoft.com/photogallery

"Shane" wrote in message
...
Heather wrote:
He was half asleep when I asked him your question and he laughed and
said he did miss it.....lol. Haven't a clue what you two are talking
about!!



Being kicked up the arse by God!

Or. Supposing we're talking about an engine of sufficient 'bang', which is
a combination of cylinder capacity and piston compression ration: a four
cylinder (or more) layout such as the modern car has, and most modern
bikes have, divides said bang into smaller, more rapidly delivered thumps
than you get from the single cylinder layout.

A fairly high compression twin cylinder engine - such as in the
rock'n'roll era Triumphs, Nortons and BSAs, to name just most of them,
still packs a punch but is perhaps the perfect compromise between what can
become uncomfortable after a while and what can seem so sanitised as to
put one to sleep. Of course, a 750cc Triumph (or a 1000cc triple or 1200
four) is like having two or more 350cc single cylinder engines beneath
one - but the thump is delivered in more rapid succession than on a
single, and that effects how one 'feels' about the ride.

Kind of funny to think about it, as we have long talked of the old
(pre-Japanese) machines having 'soul', when actually I suppose it is we
who have it, just the bike brings it out! Like an elation bubbling up as
you realize - or remember - there is a valuable facet of being, normally
absent in everyday life. Helps you experience life in the Now, I suppose,
to wake from your somnambulist existence. What motorcycling is about.

I think a 350 is about the lowest capacity single you can have without
raising the compression ration that triggers this bang-induced paradigm
shift, while a high compression 250 is too raw, the thump being so jarring
as to be distracting. A big twin or multi delivers a different stimulus
(you appreciate I'm wildly hypothesizing here!), but it seems to me that
this is something to do with frequency, as in the number of bangs within a
timeframe having the potential to alter consciousness (perhaps as a form
of autosuggestion, though that is more likely in a car :-)); you know,
because a twin of twice the capacity and the same compression at the same
rpm delivers two thumps to the single's one and the only difference is
they're closer together in time and somehow that makes them more bearable?

Maybe that is what to be concious is: to be propelled from one degree of
altered state to another and that at any given moment we are not precisely
who we were just before. Anyway, there is nothing quite like riding a 350
or 500cc old Brit single cylinder motorcycle, and that part, at least, is
not raving!

Shane


Figgs

"Shane" wrote in message
...
Does he miss the single cylinder thump? I know I do!

Shane

Heather wrote:
"Shane" wrote in message
...
Heather wrote:
LOL!! I have goofed on this one before and I will ask him when he
gets back. The Loon knows which one it is....being a *bike
freak*. The word Aerial comes to mind as well.


There were no shortage of Ariels. I would guess a Hunter of some
sort
(350 and 500 singles):

Good man!! He is standing behind me and says it was an "Ariel 500
Single" and he bought it here in Canada and it was a 1951 model.
Looks like that picture you posted the link for.

He almost ran into the back of a car and scared himself
****less....so
he sold it. (G)

Heather & the Old Guy
http://www.barkshire.co.uk/bikes/ima...2006%20008.jpg
but there were the square fours:
http://www.britishclassicmotorcycles...4522327139.jpg
another of those old Brit designs that the Japanese emulated
decades later and most people thought was new and daring. Not to
take anything away from the Japs though!




No, his name is *Renaldo y Jose y Maria y Smith*.....grin.

He must have been before his time in so many ways!


Shane



"Shane" wrote in message
...
I'd guess an ES2 then. Can't imagine an Inter on Jamaica somehow.
Last time
I saw one of those was at Bracknell Motorcycle Auction in about
'76. Or
rather parked outside. I went up on the back of a mate's 350
Matchless. Very
pretty in the stately silver way Nortons of the pre-rocker era
usually were!
And the guy who took me to that auction is the only one besides
myself I
knew from the old days who still rode a Bonnie in the 21st
Century.

Yes, do ask him what it was.

Sure his name isn't really Ernesto?

Shane


"Heather" wrote in message
...
I think Ron had a Norton bike in Jamaica......I will have to ask
him. Whatever he had, he messed up and never rode one again.
Wussie!! (G)

Figgs (and we are talking *OLD* here.....this would have been
late
'40's)

"Shane" wrote in message
...
No Joan, unfortunately not. And they don't even make the
rotary-engined
Command-er that did so very well in the road racing not so long
ago!

Even when we can *still* make something really well the
powers-that-be
allow
it to fail.


Shane

"Joan Archer" wrote in message
...
Do they still make them ?

--
Joan Archer
http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher
http://lachsoft.com/photogallery

wrote in message

...
On Oct 22, 3:32 pm, "Heirloom"
wrote:
"Norton for Dummies"............what's wrong with that???
Who else
would
anything Norton be for?


Norton for Commandos?

Now that is a bike!

Shane

Ha! Not surprising if I'm going on about compression *ration*! I've never in
my life confused ratio and ration and I certainly wasn't thinking *ration*
when I typed it - but unusually I ran the spoilpicker before sending;
however, it didn't find anything, so I can't blame the stoolchicken!

Shine

Joan Archer wrote:
I hope you realise that you've completely lost her now Shane g


"Shane" wrote in message
...
Heather wrote:
He was half asleep when I asked him your question and he laughed and
said he did miss it.....lol. Haven't a clue what you two are
talking about!!



Being kicked up the arse by God!

Or. Supposing we're talking about an engine of sufficient 'bang',
which is a combination of cylinder capacity and piston compression
ration: a four cylinder (or more) layout such as the modern car has,
and most modern bikes have, divides said bang into smaller, more
rapidly delivered thumps than you get from the single cylinder
layout. A fairly high compression twin cylinder engine - such as in the
rock'n'roll era Triumphs, Nortons and BSAs, to name just most of
them, still packs a punch but is perhaps the perfect compromise
between what can become uncomfortable after a while and what can
seem so sanitised as to put one to sleep. Of course, a 750cc Triumph
(or a 1000cc triple or 1200 four) is like having two or more 350cc
single cylinder engines beneath one - but the thump is delivered in
more rapid succession than on a single, and that effects how one
'feels' about the ride. Kind of funny to think about it, as we have long
talked of the old
(pre-Japanese) machines having 'soul', when actually I suppose it is
we who have it, just the bike brings it out! Like an elation
bubbling up as you realize - or remember - there is a valuable facet
of being, normally absent in everyday life. Helps you experience
life in the Now, I suppose, to wake from your somnambulist
existence. What motorcycling is about. I think a 350 is about the lowest
capacity single you can have
without raising the compression ration that triggers this
bang-induced paradigm shift, while a high compression 250 is too
raw, the thump being so jarring as to be distracting. A big twin or
multi delivers a different stimulus (you appreciate I'm wildly
hypothesizing here!), but it seems to me that this is something to
do with frequency, as in the number of bangs within a timeframe
having the potential to alter consciousness (perhaps as a form of
autosuggestion, though that is more likely in a car :-)); you know,
because a twin of twice the capacity and the same compression at the
same rpm delivers two thumps to the single's one and the only
difference is they're closer together in time and somehow that makes
them more bearable? Maybe that is what to be concious is: to be
propelled from one
degree of altered state to another and that at any given moment we
are not precisely who we were just before. Anyway, there is nothing
quite like riding a 350 or 500cc old Brit single cylinder
motorcycle, and that part, at least, is not raving!

Shane


Figgs

"Shane" wrote in message
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Does he miss the single cylinder thump? I know I do!

Shane

Heather wrote:
"Shane" wrote in message
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Heather wrote:
LOL!! I have goofed on this one before and I will ask him when
he gets back. The Loon knows which one it is....being a *bike
freak*. The word Aerial comes to mind as well.


There were no shortage of Ariels. I would guess a Hunter of some
sort
(350 and 500 singles):

Good man!! He is standing behind me and says it was an "Ariel 500
Single" and he bought it here in Canada and it was a 1951 model.
Looks like that picture you posted the link for.

He almost ran into the back of a car and scared himself
****less....so
he sold it. (G)

Heather & the Old Guy
http://www.barkshire.co.uk/bikes/ima...2006%20008.jpg
but there were the square fours:
http://www.britishclassicmotorcycles...4522327139.jpg
another of those old Brit designs that the Japanese emulated
decades later and most people thought was new and daring. Not to
take anything away from the Japs though!




No, his name is *Renaldo y Jose y Maria y Smith*.....grin.

He must have been before his time in so many ways!


Shane



"Shane" wrote in message
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I'd guess an ES2 then. Can't imagine an Inter on Jamaica
somehow. Last time
I saw one of those was at Bracknell Motorcycle Auction in about
'76. Or
rather parked outside. I went up on the back of a mate's 350
Matchless. Very
pretty in the stately silver way Nortons of the pre-rocker era
usually were!
And the guy who took me to that auction is the only one besides
myself I
knew from the old days who still rode a Bonnie in the 21st
Century.

Yes, do ask him what it was.

Sure his name isn't really Ernesto?

Shane


"Heather" wrote in message
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I think Ron had a Norton bike in Jamaica......I will have to
ask him. Whatever he had, he messed up and never rode one
again. Wussie!! (G)

Figgs (and we are talking *OLD* here.....this would have been
late
'40's)

"Shane" wrote in message
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No Joan, unfortunately not. And they don't even make the
rotary-engined
Command-er that did so very well in the road racing not so
long ago!

Even when we can *still* make something really well the
powers-that-be
allow
it to fail.


Shane

"Joan Archer" wrote in message
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Do they still make them ?

--
Joan Archer
http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher
http://lachsoft.com/photogallery

wrote in message

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On Oct 22, 3:32 pm, "Heirloom"
wrote:
"Norton for Dummies"............what's wrong with that???
Who else
would
anything Norton be for?


Norton for Commandos?

Now that is a bike!

Shane