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I didn’t think Norton was still making bikes. This is one sexy bike.
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Norton Atlas Nomad, chassis and all fabricated components now in manufacture at our UK factory. #Norton #Motorcycles #welding #manufacturing #autumn (at Andromeda Galaxy)
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From my photoshoot for BikeEXIF of the ‘Sunburst’ Seeley Norton streetbike from NYC Norton ©Douglas MacRae
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Look for my photoshoot on BikeEXIF today of the ‘Sunburst’ Seeley Norton built by NYC Norton ©Douglas MacRae
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Racing my ‘72 Norton at Mid-Ohio last month, I won two races -Doug
Racing my ‘72 Norton Commando a few weeks ago to two more AMA#1 plates at Mid-Ohio Vintage Motorcycle Days. New Becker-built 750 short stroke motor with new Fullauto head worked great. Mosport(CTMP) coming in a few weeks. Racing pics by Joe Hansen
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‘Dyno Don’ runs my new, Herb Becker built 750 Norton short stroke motor with big valve Fullauto head on the dyno in preparation for the AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days races this weekend -Douglas MacRae
Look for my photoshoot up today on BikeEXIF of the Ron Wood Dell’Orto Norton flat track race bike from Jamie Water’s collection; this bike won Norton’s last Grand National victory at Ascot in ‘78 ridden by Alex Jorgensen ©Douglas MacRae
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Look for two of my photoshoots in the 2017 BikeEXIF calendar, the Walt Siegl Bol d’Or MV Agusta and the ‘Sunburst’ Seeley NYC Norton ©Douglas MacRae
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John Surtees (1934 - 2017).
Surtees was the son of a south-London motorcycle dealer. His father Jack Surtees was an accomplished grasstrack competitor and in 1948 was the South Eastern Centre Sidecar Champion. He had his first professional outing, which they won, in the sidecar of his father’s Vincent at the age of 14. However, when race officials discovered Surtees’s age, they were disqualified. He entered his first race at 15 in a grasstrack competition. In 1950, at the age of 16, he went to work for the Vincent factory as an apprentice. He first gained prominence in 1951 when he gave Norton star Geoff Duke a strong challenge in an ACU race at the Thruxton Circuit.
In 1955, Norton race chief Joe Craig gave Surtees his first factory sponsored ride aboard the Nortons. He finished the year by beating reigning world champion Duke at Silverstone and then at Brands Hatch. However, with Norton in financial trouble and uncertain about their racing plans, Surtees accepted an offer to race for the MV Agusta factory racing team, where he soon earned the nickname figlio del vento (son of the wind).
In 1956 Surtees won the 500 cc world championship, MV Agusta’s first in the senior class. In this Surtees was assisted by the FIM’s decision to ban the defending champion, Geoff Duke, for six months because of his support for a riders’ strike for more starting money. In the 1957 season, the MV Agustas were no match for the Gileras and Surtees battled to a third-place finish aboard a 1957 MV Agusta 500 Quattro.
When Gilera and Moto Guzzi withdrew from Grand Prix racing at the end of 1957, Surtees and MV Agusta went on to dominate the competition in the two larger displacement classes. In 1958, 1959 and 1960, he won 32 out of 39 races and became the first man to win the Senior TT at the Isle of Man TT three years in succession.
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