October 21st – Howden Quiz Night

A very successful evening with over 30 attendees from Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire & East Yorkshire branches, the latter stealing the spoils on a very entertaining motorcycle related quiz.

 

September 5th – Meet Up with Notts branch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

July 15th – Informal Bike Night at Barton

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

July 22nd – Informal Branch Meeting

Bruce Green Cup, for most mileage in 2020 on Norton motorcycles,

presented to Peter Shand (Chairman) by Harry Atkinson (Secretary)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

February 20th – Branch Meeting

Bruce Green cup presented to Alan by Chairman & current holder Peter – most miles covered by a branch

member in 2020 by Norton motorcycle(s).

September 22nd – Bike Show, Howden

A selection of pictures taken at the branch’s first motorbike meet at the Waterwheel tearooms

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

August 15th – Branch Meeting, Howden

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

August 12th – USA

From Mark, our honorary member in the USA:

Hi Harry, I thought I should send you a couple of photos of a (sadly) typical Tri State Norton Owners unofficial club ride out featuring my ’62 Atlas mongrel, modern Triumph Thruxton with a Watsonian chair, ’73 850 Commando (with less than 6k original miles on it) and modern BMW. As you can see my Atlas has behaved itself away from home. If it was in my driveway it would be incontinent. Beautiful and backroads tide of about 150 miles.

I also have partially succumbed to my age and dodgy (fortunately left) knee. I too have a modern bike, a BMW F800GT. By today’s standards it’s not a “real” man’s bike, but I find it a very practical all arounder. I just rode it to Quebec City and it delivered me with no fuss. It was great on the back roads that we favored and had no problem cooking along at 80 mph on the interstate. My local club, The Tri-State Norton [Commando] Owner’s Club is putting on next years International [US & Canada] Owner’s Association national rally. Aside from everything else it will be interesting to see if the majority of my club members – who I have never seen on a running Norton – manage to bring one to the rally. Best regards

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

July 26th-28th – Morpeth

The NOC Rampart Rally took place at Morpeth with a variety of events. There were 4 organised runs on Saturday which were rain affected, culminating in most of the rally’s bikes congregated on Morpeth Market Square at 3pm. Our Alan (see photo) got interviewed by a local journalist as he took a fancy to Alan’s 350. Sunday saw the majority head up the road to the Alnwick Steam Railway where they are rebuilding the line down to Alnmouth – they have done 1.5 miles since we were last there in 2013. The third photo is in the centre of Morpeth and was a short cut over the River Wansbeck from the rally site into town – it was intrepidly conquered by our 3 attendees viz Harry, Alan C and Alan S.

 

July 3rd – N. Yorkshire

Malcolm kindly hosted a BBQ for branch members & friends – one of his neighbours brought along a Manx and Steve Webster, ex British, European and World sidecar champion was also present

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

June 15th – Bawtry

Saturday June 15th saw members of the East Yorks branch meet up with the Notts branch at the halfway house of Bawtry. After refreshments, a short ride together northwards towards Thorne occurred.

Pictured l to r are Phil Geeves, Sue Dickinson, Steve Dickinson, Garry Race (all Notts)

and Alan Clarke in the foreground.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

May 13th – Elvington

A Guiness world record for a tuk-tuk was set at Elvington – a 2 way run of just over 74 mph beat the previous record by 6 mph – the original engine has been replaced by a 1300cc Daihatsu engine – a passenger must be carried & a Guiness representative was prsent

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

April 27/28th – Stafford Show

 

1974 JPN 850 Commando – genuine bike with only 18 miles on it.

Shipped to American dealer who rode it round the block then put it in his showroom, where it stayed until being shipped back last year.

The current owner has not started it but has had a scope in the bores and says it all looks OK.

 

 

 

 

1953 Norton ‘Silver Fish’ Kneeler 350cc GP Racer

• for more info see http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/2006/04/article/memorable-motorcycles-norton-kneeler/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1955/6 Norton 350 Model F – external flywheel etc

• for more info see https://www.footmanjames.co.uk/blog/classic-nortons-stafford-bike-show

 

 

 

 

March 21st – Branch Meeting

A great branch meeting culminating in slot-car racing – many thanks to Peter for providing the kit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

February 21st – Branch Meeting

Peter receiving the Bruce Green cup for the most branch miles on a Norton – 5.5k last year

December 20th – Branch Meeting

New member Dave’s pre-featherbed ES2 nearing completion

December 15th – USA

At our latest branch meeting 2 days ago, we elected Harry’s friend Marc Riebman as an Honorary Member of our branch – he can be seen below in the hi-viz jacket. Marc has a 650SS and a red Atlas as depicted:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

November 17th – 25th – Motorcycle Show NEC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A race-prepared version of this bike will be raced at the TT by John McGuiness – see video in Snippets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

November 13th – Donington Hall

The new Norton Atlas 650 range was launched this evening before an invited audience in the library at Donington Hall. The proceedings were started with Stuart Garner riding the first production V4SS (no 1 of 200) into the library. There is the road oriented Atlas Nomad which is priced at £10k and the off road Ranger version at £12k. Deliveries are geared for May 2019 onwards from a new 12,000 sq ft factory to be built on-site. There is a special run of Atlas SS limited to 100 machines which will be built first – these are £16k and the pictures below show Nomad and SS (union jack tank). The 650 engine will go into a racing frame to compete at the TT.

Video of these bikes at https://youtu.be/DYCnVGvmWVA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

October 18th – Howden

Chairman Peter conducting the monthly meeting from the comfort of a kiddies high chair

October 16th – Elvington Test Tuesday

Fastest Nissan GTR in the world – 2,200+ bhp – prviously record was 237mph over standing start 1 mile – this car did 242 mph and was still accelerating – so much torque that the back wheels can lose traction changing into top gear at 210mph – more pictures: http://eastyorks.branches.nortonownersclub.org/elvington-16-oct-2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

October 13th & 14th – Stafford Classic M/C Show

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                    October 7th – Goole Waterways Museum

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                     October 3rd – Howden

Wednesday Wheelers enjoyed cuppas and butties at a garden centre

September 29th – Cadwell Park

VMCC BHR racing – plenty of Nortons taking part –

more pictures http://eastyorks.branches.nortonownersclub.org/cadwell-bhr-29-sept-2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

September 27th – Donington Hall

Last BBQ night of the season – 6 x 961s + mk2 850 in attendance – not much activity on the V4 front but we did hear one screaming its head off as it was put through its paces on the dyno – one of the Belgian dealers was also over collecting a couple of bikes

July 4th – Sewerby Cafe

After meeting at Fimber teapot cafe, some of the Wednesday Wheelers rode to Sewerby

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

September 15th & 16th – Elvington Top Speed Weekend

 

 

 

 

 

World’s fastest toilet – it has a working flush – 70.5 mph  over 2-way run

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

World’s fastest shed – 100.67 mph over 2-way run

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

World’s fastest shopping trolley – Chinook jet engine – 91.55 mph max 1-way – 90.8 mph over 2-way run

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1921 Sunbeam 500 3 spd gearbox – achieved 85.6 mph 1-way running on standard petrol

 

 

 

 

 

September

Every bike should carry an adjustable spanner – useful for adjusting tappets etc

 

 

August 16th

Branch Meeting

 

 

August 11th & 12th – George Brown Memorial Sprint, East Kirkby

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

August 5th

Bikes ready for the off in Howden, destination Dick Craven’s motorcycle museum in Stockton on Forest, York

 

 

Presentation at the February AGM of Bruce Green Cup to Peter for the 2nd year running.

A Selection of Photos taken at the July branch meeting

Visit to East Kirby Aviation Day April 30

 

 

 

 

 

2011 Photo Gallery: https://eastyorks.branches.nortonownersclub.org/2013/01/19/2011-photo-gallery

2012 Photo Gallery: https://eastyorks.branches.nortonownersclub.org/2013/01/19/hello-world

2013 Photo Gallery: https://eastyorks.branches.nortonownersclub.org/2013/04/20/2013-photo-gallery

2014 Photo Gallery: https://eastyorks.branches.nortonownersclub.org/2014/01/17/2014-photo-gallery

 

 

 

 

19th March we enjoyed a visit to Markham Grange Steam Museum, the Hi Viz works well certainly outshines the models!

 

Two of the wonderful volunteers at the museum pose for a photo

Crankshaft grinding on a grand scale

Lined up outside cooling down