As seen in this months Classic Bike Guide.

Each to their own I guess, looks like an exercise in futility.

Streuth, eye bleach warning needed!

Looks like a Munch Mammut/Mammoth from the 70’s.

Seen better. Why has a Norton got a Laverda engine?

Bet its “interesting” trying to stop it!

meh. Too many cylinders!

Waste of a decent engine 😉

If it looks right, it is right…………oh.

Anyone using the term “motorbikerist” automatically invalidates any opinion they have or comment they make.
That bike has the sex appeal of a breast feeding Neanderthal.

Assuming the Laverda frame was knackered, for whatever reason, then I think that is fantastic and would love it in my garage.

What would the comments have been like if it was a Trident engine instead? Would that be ok?

The guy who built this has put just about every engine you can think of in a Norton frame and likes doing different stuff.
Just look at the side panels and the way the middle pipe splits.
I like it and obviously the rest of the planet is wrong.

Nah, a Jota engine needs to be in a Jota not some British hunk of pig iron 😆

Betterer init..
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Cant argue with that logic

How’s about these then?

Built by the same bloke.

motorbikerist snobs out in force.

That second Norton wipes the floor with the one in the OP

Look like radiators.

I see a theme running in his builds.

How about sticking a KH750 engine in one, or that Suzi 750 water cooled triple from the 70’s..

Or a CCM 650 single out of a 70’s crosser.. Now I think that would look rather good..

I saw an imaculate rotary (Wankel) engined Suzuki in Taunton the other day.

That would be a RE5, a rare beast.

Nah, a Jota engine needs to be in a Jota not some British hunk of pig iron

Nobody with a clue, would describe the Featherbed frame as ‘some British hunk of pig iron’.
I like the Norley, but frankly, I’m not purist enough to want to ride a powerful bike with drum brakes on the front.
I prefer this, the Dunkley Harton:

http://mas-boim.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/dunkley-harton.html

I’m sure there was a programme on tv recently about the bike in the first pic.

I have yet to see a decent looking British motorbike that’s pleasing to my eye.

I have seen many decent looking Italian & German ones and even a few American ones.

I don’t get the myth that British bikes are something special, sorry if that hurts the internetz. 😆

that Jota looks just as shit as the OP’s

passtherizla should of gone to Specsavers 😉 Jota is a straight up classic.

bikebuoy really? never, not one?

A Norton I would happily own…

😛

Ok, that ^^ there looks kinda nice, really a Norton? Not some kinda homogenised mishmash??

Needs drop bars on it though, see, not quite right is it.. Close.

😉

A Jota is a lovely thing but the engine is too modern for a Featherbed. Vincents look especially nice in them.

Those new Nortons ….. Phwoarrrr!!

Anyone want to buy a kidney?

Regardless of your point of view this is far more interesting than arguing about wheel sizes!

The thing is that the Featherbed frame was the very best available in the 60’s, 70’s and maybe the 80’s. After that period it was more about rose tinted specs than actual engineering. It was designed for a time when 100 bhp was not available to mere mortals.
I think that the original Laverda frame is a far better home for a Jota triple.
I suppose if it is all about the show rather than the go around corners then it’s not a bad effort.
Oh and just to be a contrary git…….
26 inch forever!

A Jota is a lovely thing

Maybe, it its day.

Laverda usually meant that the owner once had money (now converted into buying a very expensive bike and horrendous running/maintenance costs), was very strong (heavy and heavy to ride) and liked to scare himself (they wandered a bit…).

The proddie-racing spec ones were also about the loudest (and especially the twin which a friend had) things this side of a Trident airliner.

After that period it was more about rose tinted specs than actual engineering. It was designed for a time when 100 bhp was not available to mere mortals.

Lets correct you, when the Featherbed was the best handler, 50bhp was the limit for most – even the Honda 750/Kwak 900’s only had 70bhp at best.

Jesus, so much wrong in one thread – 😉

Vincents were designed not to need a conventional frame, just a small spine & subframes at each end.
About as radical as it got at the time – still radical today.
Putting one in a Featherbed is a step backwards – like trying to carve an airliner out of stone.

Both Rex McCandless & Phil Irving would be appalled at the idea 🙂

Ah , but they worked.

b r – Member
The proddie-racing spec ones were also about the loudest (and especially the twin which a friend had) things this side of a Trident airliner.

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Slater Brothers used to advertise the Montjuich with the slogan ‘Amaze your friends and annoy the neighbours’. 😀

I’d love an Alpina, but there don’t seem to be many affordable nice ones left anymore.