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<blockquote data-quote="Real Rocker" data-source="post: 3418" data-attributes="member: 1033"><p>In 1978 for £900 I bought my dream machine, a Norvin. I now ride an Egli twin & a 500 wideline Featherbed Dominator. Both machines handle like true thoroughbreds. Put the vincent engine in a featherbed & you negate the virtues of both machines & end up with a dangerous mongrel that does not handle. My Norvin tried to kill me 2 or 3 times before I saw the light & invested another £500 in an Egli chassis. What a wonderfull contrivance. I only have to think where I want to go & it takes me there as does the Norton Dominator. The Norvin had to be wrestled round high speed bends & it was always liable to produce skidmarks in the wrong place. Fine if all you want to do is trailer the bike to shows or potter down to the ACE cafe[urrrgh, pass the sick bag mother] & collect admiring looks but for serious road riding it won`t work. You could cut the front down tubes out & pull the engine forward & lower which was done in the sixties when everything was cheap but why wreck a good frame. My Norvin EEM 580 E, was built in Liverpool in 1965 & utilised the standard top engine steady from the Norton twin & the sliding top mount from the Vincent which worked fine because it allowed for expansion. Think about it, I know John Surtees built & raced a Norvin but I challenge anyone to inform me of a Norvin that was raced with any great success. If they were any good, Egli`s would not exist. Dell Boy. P.S When I joined the club in`78 no-one would talk to me because I rode a Norvin. How times have changed, Norvin section & all. I don`t go to club do`s much nowadays because they still don`t talk to me. Perhaps a change of deoderant?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Real Rocker, post: 3418, member: 1033"] In 1978 for £900 I bought my dream machine, a Norvin. I now ride an Egli twin & a 500 wideline Featherbed Dominator. Both machines handle like true thoroughbreds. Put the vincent engine in a featherbed & you negate the virtues of both machines & end up with a dangerous mongrel that does not handle. My Norvin tried to kill me 2 or 3 times before I saw the light & invested another £500 in an Egli chassis. What a wonderfull contrivance. I only have to think where I want to go & it takes me there as does the Norton Dominator. The Norvin had to be wrestled round high speed bends & it was always liable to produce skidmarks in the wrong place. Fine if all you want to do is trailer the bike to shows or potter down to the ACE cafe[urrrgh, pass the sick bag mother] & collect admiring looks but for serious road riding it won`t work. You could cut the front down tubes out & pull the engine forward & lower which was done in the sixties when everything was cheap but why wreck a good frame. My Norvin EEM 580 E, was built in Liverpool in 1965 & utilised the standard top engine steady from the Norton twin & the sliding top mount from the Vincent which worked fine because it allowed for expansion. Think about it, I know John Surtees built & raced a Norvin but I challenge anyone to inform me of a Norvin that was raced with any great success. If they were any good, Egli`s would not exist. Dell Boy. P.S When I joined the club in`78 no-one would talk to me because I rode a Norvin. How times have changed, Norvin section & all. I don`t go to club do`s much nowadays because they still don`t talk to me. Perhaps a change of deoderant? [/QUOTE]
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