There's not much to like about the front end and th rear end takes up a shit ton of space.
The fuck is with the truck tyres?
Cool motor.
It was built for Reg Pidmore
Well known BMW racer from the states and 1978 AMA Superbike Champion
His boy Jason was pretty useful as well.
Here is the bike with its cloths on at the IOM.
Rob North (himself a very useful sidecar racer back in the UK) was known for building pretty simple but highly functional designs, so there must be a reason for its layout.
1/ It seemed like a good idea at the time.
2/ Someone paid him to do it.
3/ There was a single seater race car laying around which had had an accident wiping the left side off it.
No - but there's a genuine ex works North trident lives in ChCh. How to tell it's the real deal ? Widened Triumph triple clamps.
Bronze welded - and agricultural. Frame's bronze welded too. Current owner wanted to do copies so made up a jig - and it was immediately apparent that as Jelly has remarked above - the two sides weren't the same.
And I knew the guy who bought it in the UK and brought it home with him.
All the first ones apparently had the head angle wrong as well, they were all the same head angle, just the wrong one.
from memory the fab yokes were for the disc version.
there is a pic of them in a classic bike mag i have somewhere.
Because the bikes were limited run all the parts like tanks were handmade so it didn't mater to Rob if they differed.
The later disc wheels were made in halves bolted together and the discs were supposed to be from a Triumph dolomite machined down.
The frame jig was only made from scap bits and bobs as the chassis was to be a one off funded by Percy Tait with Triumph kicking in a few quid.
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