Great minds think alike!
I have been restoring my '71 Norton 750 Commando that I bought back in '73. It's almost done.
Fred, funny you should mention Isle of Man; I've wanted to to witness the weeklong madness since I bought the Norton back in '73.
I finally went last year. I spent 11 days in England and the Isle of Man during May/June of 2008 on a motorcycle tour that included 7 days camping on the Isle of Man, and took a bunch of pictures. I didn't know that they raced both motorcycles and sidecars; it was all a sight to behold!
You can see some of the pictures that I took at
Isle of Man 2008 TT Races.
The slideshow feature on flickr is pretty cool.
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Originally Posted by Fred Douglass
......Ariel Square-Fours, Vincent Black Shadows and (for me) Velocettes?
I owned (for about a year) a very stealthy (family didn't know about it) Velocette. It was a small, pure-race Isle of Man jobbie and its ORIGINAL "tyres" were V-shaped!
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Wish I still had the thing.
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