Re: Oh, I lurve it

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember
chateauSPAMKILL.murray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (The Older Gentleman) saying
something like:


>Best of all, I remember Mike Jackson, export director of NVT and then
>the bod behind Andover Norton, telling me that Norton almost concluded a
>deal with Yamaha to supply XS650 engines which they were going to drop
>into Commando chassis. They measured it up, and while it was a tight
>fit, it did indeed drop straight in.

Arsebiscuits. At one point in my life I had a Commando frame and an
XS650 lump among all the other junk. It did fleetingly cross my mind to
do something like that, but it was another shelved idea.


>Anyway, at the last minute some honcho at NVT said that if it couldn't
>be done for some (stupidly unrealistic) low price, then it wasn't going
>to happen, and the project was killed. Bloody shame.

It would have been impossible to have underestimated the utterly
short-sighted stupidity of British Motorcycle Industry management. I'm
sure such a design would have sold in sufficient numbers to make it
worthwhile. Of course, the die-hard rice-haters wouldn't have bought it
but plenty would have, if only to support Norton and to get something
reliable for a change.



--

Dave

GS850 x2 XS650SE / SE 6a
.

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