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    Olliés ODDJOBS

    Dec 04, 2021 4 minutes
    Photos by Gary Chapman, RC RChive

    I have a bit of a thing for those development prototypes that were much vaunted in their day as the ‘Saviours of the British motorcycle industry’. It must be something about seeing examples of these ‘world beaters’ in the motorcycle press every week as a teenager.

    I love the P92 Norton, for example, which wasn’t a Norton at all. It was a BSA Fury / Triumph Bandit frame with a BSA B50 engine in it mounted on Isolastics and fitted with a left foot change and a Norton tank. It failed to sort out

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