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[RVF400]

Thought you might like to see these.


http://deejay51.com/...ebikes_Pg_2.htm
http://deejay51.com/...ebikes_pg_3.htm
http://deejay51.com/...ebikes_pg_4.htm
http://deejay51.com/...ebikes_pg_5.htm
http://deejay51.com/...ebikes_pg_6.htm
http://deejay51.com/...ebikes_pg_7.htm
http://deejay51.com/...l_racebikes.htm
http://deejay51.com/...bike_museum.htm

[tonyed]

Thought you might like to see these.


http://deejay51.com/...ebikes_Pg_2.htm
http://deejay51.com/...ebikes_pg_3.htm
http://deejay51.com/...ebikes_pg_4.htm
http://deejay51.com/...ebikes_pg_5.htm
http://deejay51.com/...ebikes_pg_6.htm
http://deejay51.com/...ebikes_pg_7.htm
http://deejay51.com/...l_racebikes.htm
http://deejay51.com/...bike_museum.htm

Interesting.

I did not realise the CR93 was a two valve head, always assumed it would be a four valver as per 50cc CR110. Perhaps Yendor AKA Rodney can clarify.

Cheers.

PS as with Yendor is Yentob as in Alan Yentob really Alan Botney? Although he was born into a Iraqi jewish familly I am not sure if Alan is really an Iraqi name.

Perhaps Pa Nortons' real christian name was not Ron.

Edited by tonyed, 31 October 2011 - 17:33.

[fil2.8]

Thank's for that , lovely ................................and you , Tony !!!

Edited by fil2.8, 31 October 2011 - 17:34.

[Herr Wankel]

Interesting.

I did not realise the CR93 was a two valve head, always assumed it would be a four valver as per 50cc CR110. Perhaps Yendor AKA Rodney can clarify.

Cheers.

PS as with Yendor is Yentob as in Alan Yentob really Alan Botney? Although he was born into a Iraqi jewish familly I am not sure if Alan is really an Iraqi name.

Perhaps Pa Nortons' real christian name was not Ron.

CR93 was 4 valves per cylinder Tony

HW (ex CR110)

[GD66]

If we're splitting hairs, the CYB72 had twin carbs, not a single carb as well.
But a ripping set of pics from Deejay : his Castrol Six Hour stuff is worth a look too if you go to his website.

[philippe7]

Here the link to the chapter in question http://deejay51.com/...road_racing.htm.

Just scroll down the page to get to the older stuff - 6 hours, but also Laverton, Surfers or Lakeside - with quite a few of our forum members pictured : Stu, Jeff, Murray, Vaughan....

[ghinzani]

I never knew the NR500 story carried on into 1983, I assumed it all finished at the end of 81. Does anyone know if the carbon frame 83 NR500 raced?

[exclubracer]

I never knew the NR500 story carried on into 1983, I assumed it all finished at the end of 81. Does anyone know if the carbon frame 83 NR500 raced?

Me also, I was at Copse corner in '79 when Mick Grant tested the straw bales on lap 1, I thought afterwards that this was a project that Honda would have preferred to forget...

[philippe7]

I never knew the NR500 story carried on into 1983, I assumed it all finished at the end of 81. Does anyone know if the carbon frame 83 NR500 raced?

Not sure.... Ron Haslam took part in a couple of Grand Prix in 1982 on the NR 500 ( certainly Assen, Spa and Silverstone - the latter well documented as the last outing of a 4-stroke before the advent of Moto GP ) , but was that still the same steel-framed machine as used in 1981, or already a carbon-fibre model ? What is certain is that the NR didn't race in any Grand Prix in 1983, but that doesn't mean it didn't take part in local races in Japan - or elsewhere...

Edited by philippe7, 07 November 2011 - 05:11.

[philippe7]

Two very good pics of Ron Haslam on the 500 NR in 1982 on Manfred's site

Assen http://www.highsider...aslam_82_01.htm

Spa http://www.highsider...aslam_82_02.htm

[rd500]

the nr won a big international at suzuka but iam unsure of which year that was 82 or 83,it was before it was retired for good. was the one spencer had at silverstone not an alloy frame in 82?

[bobness]

Kengo Kiyama won the Suzuka 200km race in 1981, mainly due to some clever strategy, rather than outright speed. Spencer won a heat at Laguna in 1981 too, but the 1982 season was pretty much a wind down, as the NS500 was out in force by then.
From a press shot i found on the web, I think the 1982 bike was a tubular steel framed one. The first time theis frame was raced in Europe was june 1980 at Doningtom Park, I believe?
I've not heard from anywhere that the 1983 carbon fibre bike ever raced, but was more of a "design project" for HRC's engineers in Japan.

[ghinzani]

Thansk chaps, so a bit like their stillborn F1 cars of the 90's, a behind the scenes project. Shame cos the power output quoted on that site isnt much different to the NS.

[bobness]

It's abit of a thing for me.
I have plenty of articles, cuttings and photos. And the odd jigsaw...
One day I'll stitch them all up in a document.

[Graham Clayton]

Here is a nice picture compilation of the Honda multi-cylinder bikes of the 60's:



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