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18-03-18, 10:07 AM | #1 |
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A video for a snowy Sunday
As it's such lovely biking weather here's the 1989 Snetterton 'Race of Aces,' with the cream of the UK riders at the time on the best 750 superbikes: GSXR750s, FZR750s and Honda RC30s.
Oh, and the two JPS Norton rotaries, which were built in a shed. Of course, they're only 588cc (depending how you measure capacity, of course ). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7ZE7Yd-U9w |
18-03-18, 05:56 PM | #2 |
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Re: A video for a snowy Sunday
I saw the Nortons race that year at Snetterton. Somewhere I have a picture of Trevor Nation's bike with a winners garland on it from after the race. As he was a spectator at the Race of Aces I must have gone to an earlier meeting.
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Re: A video for a snowy Sunday
I just watched the video. Wierdly, at the point that the Norton streaked down the back straight, I realised that I had watched this program when it was first broadcast.
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It's reckoned the 1989 bikes were good for 140bhp at the gearbox sprocket, which is a bit more than the Japanese proddy 750s at the time |
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