The F1 was on the dyno today to set up for the season .
Kev said everything was ok so we are set for another year on the F1.

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Ciao Huw, we chatted few time ago when I told you
that I saw you racing your JPS at the 2000 Manx and
the 2001 Ulster. After that finally I took delivery
of my JPS, one of the ex S.Spray no.20 bikes, from
the National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham where it
was residing from when Norton ceased their racing
activity. You can see the photos of the actual moment when
I retire the bike from the museum on the site
jpsnorton.com on the "gallery" section at bottom of the page. I
hope to bring the ex-works JPS at the TT "Lap of
honour"in 2002!<br>Thanks, and keep on' racing with your
JPS!<br><br>Mauro Borella<br>mbracing61@...

2002 IRISH ROAD RACES DATES  <br> SUBJECT TO
RATIFCATION  <br> DATE VENUE CLUB<br>April 	 <br> 27 / 28 Athea, Limerick MCUI
SC<br> 27 Cookstown
100 Cookstown MCC<br>May 	 <br> 4 Tandragee 100 <br> 18 North
West 200 <br>June 	 <br> 15 Dundrod 150 Dundrod
MCC<br> 	 <br>July 	 <br> 05 / 06 Skerries 100 Loughshinny MCC<br> 13 /
14 Walderstown Fore MCC<br> 20 / 21 Kells  Kells
MCC<br>August 	 <br> 3 Mid Antrim Mid Antrim MCC<br> 9 / 10 Monaghan  North
Monaghan<br> 17 Ulster GP ????<br> 30 Darver Louth
MCC<br>September 	 <br> 1 Darver Louth MCC<br> 7 Carrowdore  Belfast & Dist
MCC<br> 14 /
15 Killalane  Loughshinny MCC

maxton have been on the phone the forks and rear
shock are ready to pick up.<br>I think I will go to
pick them up on Tuesday.<br>That reminds me I need to
check out the stearing head bearings.<br><br>Get ready
the first race will be here soon.

Dear Huw <br>Can you help, are you raceing a
commando in stock Chasis/frame.I am preparing my 850 for
racing (for the promotion of our product MAGNOM to the
classic race and performance market) I have done all the
usual mods and am looking for some tips from anyone who
has been where I am about to go, Handling ,setup
,technique etc can you help. (incidently I'v had the bike 28
years since I was 17, the only thing I hav'nt done on
it is race) Tips from anyone who has raced one of
these sucessfully would be most welcom.

I started working for an international agency
that could pay me during the day and volunteered
nights and weekends for those who couldn't pay like
Amnesty, Oxfam, etc.. I found my niche in writing,
educating and raising awareness and money. I became
involved on the political side as well writing position
papers and speecches that were delivered in your House
of Commons as well as the Canadian one and the US
Senate and Nato council of ministers. I gave seminars on
such sexy topics as the role of multilateral treaty
organizations.As you know in that environment all you have is your
reputation and integrity. So when someone challenges my
integrity and accuracy it stings.<br> <br> The next big
change was when my mother was very gravely ill. Ileft my
job and lovely apartment and moved home. She
recovered and I finished giving a college history course
for her. I got involved in trying to save a very
historic house from demolition - that was front page news
all across Canada for several weeks - quite a story
in itself.<br> <br> my mother and I wrote Collecting
Canada's Past, Prentice- Hall 1974. It was a best seller
and became required reading at the School of Canadian
Studies at Harvard University. Then I met Joseph who was
both a real estate developer and a scientist. We
married in 75. He was very sensitive about Mike so I felt
I had to close that door by not even trying to
following motor sports of any kind. But I did manage to
send Mike several cards every year ( naughty me). <br>
<br>When Joseph died 5 years ago I mourned him and also
Mike whom I had never been able to mourn.<br>For
Christmas a couple of years ago one of my brothers who had
done a high school project on Mike gave me Christopher
Hilton's book, A Man Called Mike. I loved it. I called him
and asked him if he had left out the prediction o f
Mike's death for a reason. I was sure he would have
heard of it, but he hadn't.<br> <br> Being a good
journalist as well as an author he asked me a lot of
questions to prove my authenticity. I gave him information
that I left out of my story (on purpose). He accepted
me and and asked me to start writing things down and
sending them to him for inclusion in a future edition.
That was the genesis of my writing down my story.
Since then I have been on a personal quest to try to
learn who the other 7 young men were. I am pretty sure
one was Gary Hocking based on Mike's comments that
one, a very good friend, tried to beat it ( the
prediction) by switching over to car racing and was killed
shortly afterwards. <br> <br>Like Rip Van Winkle waking
from a 25 year nap I awoke to a world without the
motorcycle GPs as they had been. It is a different world. I
f the 60's with their numerous top rank stars,
factory teams competing in every class, full GP calendar
plus fantastic races every weekend weren't the golden
era, then what was?<br> <br> So now you know that when
I met Mike I knew more about F1cars than bikes - we
had some great conversations about both , plus some
about circuits and suspensions - very much an issue
with the 500 -4.<br>I f you are ever interested I will
tell you some more about Mike and F1 and why I advised
him against going back to it.<br>I always enjoy our
chats,<br> <br>Elizabeth

When I was about 12-13 ( 1960) I decided I wanted
to be a mechanical engineer. I was fascinated by the
ways things worked and why. At some point I fell in
love with cars and racing - particularly Formula One
racing. There was a time when I could have drawn maps of
the great GP circuits. I was engrossed in the details
of circuit design. My thinking progressed to F1
suspensions, tires, circuit pavements and safety design -
barriers, restraints etc.. I went to marshals school at
Mosport, nearly fainted during the first aid film and so
they put me on signaling, communication and
timekeeping. I worked at several races and also participated
in car rallies as a navigator. <br> <br>During high
school I was allowed to attend engineering classes at
the University of Toronto. At 15 I was the youngest
and the first female student member of the Society of
Automotive Engineers. My best male friend raced motorcycles
and so I went to races with him. I was well on my way
to a career in engineering. Who knows I might have
been a F1 team manager! LOL!<br> <br> Then at 18 I had
the car accident that changed my life. I died,
briefly and was revived ( well, I guess that is obvious
LOL). everything changed for me. I knew then that I had
to devote my life to humanitarian projects - a major
career change. I threw myself into that with my
customary enthusiasm. But it didn't pay very well.<br> <br>
BMF, best male friend, Derek was by now a Honda,
Ducati and BSA dealer. One of the our top local racers,
Al Johnson, wanted to retire and sell his Yamaha,
Triumph, Norton dealership. Contracts prevented Derek from
owning both so he asked me if I would like to run it for
the extra income. So for two years I was a yamaha,
Triumph and Norton dealer! I had a racing a motocross
team and belonged to the same club as Mike Duff ( as
he was then).<br> <br> Naturally I went to all the
races that my teams were in. But I didn't follow the
European racing scene - it was so far away and I was
juggling two careers and family commitments. <br><br>By
1967 I had to resign from the day to day operation of
the dealership but stayed on as nominal owner. You
can bet I took a lot of teasing from Mike when I
finally 'fessed up and showed him my business card - he
accused me of being a secret agent for Phil Read -
jokingly of course.<br> <br>One of the last things that I
did related to motorcyle competition was that I had a
very small role in organizing the Canadian national
motocross team that competed against the US in a challenge
match in '67( and won). By the end of the summer I had
nothing more to do with racing of any kind.<br> <br> It
was Derek who took me to the reception where I met
Mike . and It was Derek who made me read all the
magazine articles about the factory teams before we went.
My negative pre-impression of Mike was a combination
of what I read and what I picked up from some of the
local racers who were frankly green with envy over the
the factory teams and eager to spread anything
negative.

Hello,<br>My name is Keimei Takagi and live in
Japan.<br>I found your homepage while I was looking
for<br>Norton F1's information.<br>I love Rotary engine so
much.<br>I used to own 2 Mazda RX-7s (1982 and 1989).<br>And
I admire the company of Norton and the owners of
this<br>special bike.<br>I was trying to find and buy Norton F1
in Japan however,<br>I found nothing about the bike
so far. Most of people<br>don't even know there
existed the bike with rotary engine.<br>Is Norton F1 a
popular bike on used bike market in your country?<br>If
the price is good I don't mind importing it to
Japan.<br>If you know anything please let me know.

Deliverd forks to maxton today.<br>They are there
for minor work, and a check over. It has been a few
years since the forks were looked at.<br>they promised
to get them ready in good time before Cookstown.only
time will tell if the rest is ready by then!

: Ridernews web site <br>Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001
17:49:47 +0000 <br><br><br><br>Hi Huw hows things ? just
finished reading your tale on ridernews web <br>site
<br>very good it just goes to prove that once you get
involved in this <br>sport it <br>soon gets a hold of you.
Hope all is well roll on 2002 race season <br>without
<br>any f&m hopefully all the best for the new year
regards Bill Peacock

Nice to see somebody actually racing a norton F1,
<br>Unfortunately I dont own one, when they were around i didnt
have the <br>money, now i have, and virtually all F1
seems to be owned by collectors <br>who regard it as a
investment.<br> <br>I saw the JPS norton team at a ducati
clubrace in assen, and wanted one <br>ever since.<br><br>I
will keep dreaming, if i ever see one sale i might be
tempted to get <br>rid of the guzzi V7sport.

Huw<br>Thanks for the reply<br>By telling
interested people is a good start and as soon as we can get
<br>a<br>manufacturer to build them they will be available as ideal
bike engines<br>Kind regards and seasons
greetings<br>Laurie:)

True Rotating Internal Combustion
Engine<br>Archer TRICE gets full US patent with UK, European and
Japanese patents pending<br>thought this may be of
interest and you may be able to assist us with this
project<br>WWW.archerengine.dabsol.co.uk<br>Thanks for having a look<br>Kind
regards Laurie:)

I am really writing to enquire whether you
currently <br>make any use of, or indeed have heard of,
Deep Cryogenic Treatment(DCT) <br>as an aid to
performance and reliability for competition applications.
<br>DCT is not well known in the UK, but essentially, it
is a thermal <br>treatment for metals that greatly
improves their operational life and <br>performance, and
can be applied to anything from a pair of brake discs
to a <br>whole engine and gearbox. The results are
very interesting. Brake <br>discs last some 2-300%
longer in competition conditions, engines produce
<br>5-10% more power, whilst wearing less and being
substantially more <br>reliable. The process has been around in
the States for 18 years or more <br>and is
extensively used by 7 out of the top ten NASCAR teams for
<br>example. Try looking up “Cryogenic Treatment“ on the Web
and you will find <br>dozens of firms in the States
offering this process. Or follow this link <br>to just one
firm www.300below.com to see the claims being made. We
<br>have been working in this country in a small way for
the last 4 years or <br>so, and have many satisfied
racing clients including some Formula 1 <br>teams and
top level international rally teams. Our experience
fully <br>substantiates the claims being made by the
American firms, and I think the <br>main benefit in your
particular field would be in essence to reduce the <br>costs
of racing, because valuable and difficult to source
parts can be <br>made to last longer and break less. If
you would like further <br>information, please e-mail
your contact address and I will send a small pack
<br>of information for your consideration.

> Found your web site through Norton owners
club mag,I<br>&gt; would be interested in helping out
if possible. I<br>&gt; was<br>&gt; a mechanic in
past for 6 years cars only though!I<br>&gt;
now<br>&gt; run a support team in IT industry, prefer<br>&gt;
spannering<br>&gt; but it pays better. I have also been acting as
a<br>&gt; race<br>&gt; marshall at classic bike meetings
and have always<br>&gt; been<br>&gt; keen to get
involved, to old to race (44)or rather<br>&gt; have left it
to late! suprisingly I don,t own a<br>&gt;
norton<br>&gt; I have a Moto Guzzi but have always been keen to
get<br>&gt; an F1( hence membership of NOC)let me know if
this<br>&gt; is<br>&gt; of interest.

MANX GRAND PRIX 2002 <br>The Manx Motor Cycle
Club look for ward to welcoming back to the Manx all
competitors, sponsors and fans for the 2002 Manx Grand Prix
Races. <br>Practice commences on Saturday 17th August
with racing the following week. The programme will be
as it would have been this year. <br>Monday 26th
August Newcomers Races <br>Classic Senior<br>Wednesday
28th August Classic Junior/Lightweight <br>Junior Manx
Grand Prix<br>Friday 30th August Lightweight/Ultra
Lightweight Manx Grand Prix <br>Senior Manx Grand
Prix<br>Regulations for the Meeting will be available from the Race
Secretary, Caroline Etherington, M.M.C.C. Race Office,
Grandstand, Douglas towards the end of February 2002.

The plan is to do as many races as I can.<br>All the southern Irish road races
and a trip to the manx as usual.<br>What a suprise !!

take a look now then there are some new photos as requested.

Come on, we're waiting for new photos, we know you've got some!!!!!!!

the F1 will be on the Norton Owners Club stand at <br>the classic mechanics show
I will be arround somewhere probably in the bar if not on the stand

Killalane 2001<br>The last road race of
2001<br>Arrived Friday night<br><br> Practice<br>F1 started up
ok.Then in assembly area someone said the bike was
leaking water! They were wrong It was Petrol,the float
needle was sticking!A hefty thump with Norton service
tool It stopped and off to practice 5 laps <br> went
ok but suffered from a high speed weave,as witnessed
by spectators!<br>84 mph best lap<br>Race
Day<br>Trying to cure high speed weave. <br>Handling better,but
may be too hard now. got lapped.<br>Enjoyed it a
lot!<br>Back next year.

The Ulster GP 2001<br> I have never ridden at the
Dundrod circuit it has always clashed with
something.<br>When I arrived on Thursday afternoon I didn’t relay
know what to expect from the event.<br>After setting
up camp I went out for a few laps on a road bike,
the Video that I had been studying for the past few
weeks did not relay do justice to the speed and circuit
knowledge required to ride round this track at 100%.
<br>Only 5 laps of practice didn't allow me enough time to
get going. This circuit has a lot of blind corners,
which can be taken flat out if you know where you are
going. <br>After some debate I was allowed to start at
the back of the grid.<br> My race started and was red
flagged before I got off the line (5 riders down just
round the 2nd corner only minor injuries). After the
restart I had a good race finished up not last by not
much! <br> I think I enjoyed myself it was an
experience I will never forget that's for sure.<br>Andy
Wilson had just finished his F1, he rode the bike for
the first time in practice, and it had a few teething
problems and consequently failed to qualify for the race.
A shame because I was looking forward to a race
with him. It's only a mater of time before I will have
some real competition out there IM sure!

Pierce Dynomomiter tuning 01248470296<br><br>Norton Rotary Enthusiasts
Club.<br><br>John Williams.<br><br>Graham Willshaw (Startright)<br><br>Ronan
Fin<br><br>Haroun.

2001 Big Bills <br><br>UGP FERRY £160 Billie Nutt
did us a favour Stena price more like
£360<br><br>Tyres £270 Dunlop d208<br><br>Skerries ferry £150 Lewis
Llanerchymedd<br><br>Walderstown ferry £150 Lewis<br> <br>Fuel Skerries £50 AV
and
derv<br><br>Fuel Walderstown £70 AV and derv<br><br>Pads,"carbon
tech" £50 Ernie coats

Re.: Your S.O.S. for help - I'm
interested<br>&gt; <br>&gt; Dear Huw,<br>&gt; <br>&gt; My name is
Haroun Horchani (just call me<br>&gt; Haroun...) I'm 28,
half Irish <br>&gt; and half Tunisian, and I live in
Dublin. My<br>&gt; mate, John Marshall (also <br>&gt;
lives in Dublin but is from Belfast) told me he<br>&gt;
mailed you recently <br>&gt; and that I might be
interested in doing the<br>&gt; same...<br>&gt; <br>&gt; He
told me about the Norton site a couple of<br>&gt;
months ago and I nearly <br>&gt; creamed myself at the
photos of your stripped<br>&gt; down rotory engine in
<br>&gt; pieces... I love engines - any kind. I
always<br>&gt; had an awe for <br>&gt; Wankel/rotaries in
particular although I've<br>&gt; never touched
one...<br>&gt; <br>&gt; I would love to help you in any way I
could<br>&gt; around the paddock. I go <br>&gt; to as many road
races as I can (seen quite a<br>&gt; lot of you so far
this <br>&gt; year!!) and, well, just reply to this
mail if<br>&gt; you need a hand.<br>&gt; <br>&gt; By
the way I can do or learn just about<br>&gt; anything
(in terms of <br>&gt; technical mechanical shite) on
a bike... Been<br>&gt; into bikes since age
13.<br>&gt; <br>&gt; Sincerely,<br>&gt; Haroun

Walderstown 2001<br>We went to Walderstown, a
week after Skerries still suffering the after
shock.<br>I had never raced at this track it only being the
second time the race of the south has been held on this
track and a lovely track for a rotary norton, a long
straight before the first corner 2 miles long not too hard
on the brain.<br>Fore club have always run a good
race meeting and this has got to be one of the best in
the south and a real chance to get some speed
up.<br>Practice turned out quite eventful when someone fell off
in front of me coming out of the hairpin I nearly
went up a slip road a few times (the breaking markers
were definitely too late for me) definitely Norton
territory though.<br>Race day I bought front pads from
Earny Coatis (£50) I didn’t put them in. There was no
practice time to bead them in.<br>Out in the First race of
the day Standing for the national Anthem and all
that!<br>1 warm up lap, re form on the grid and off really
slick no messing around. Had a really good race good
position into first corner so important as the back
section is narrow they cant get past, Runing nearly Isle
of man gearing (over geared Really) good grip all
round (fast). I finished in front of a few that beat me
at Skerries.<br>In open race (B open) I sat at the
back of the grid with Liam Mc Aleer and Phil Archer
and cargo got a flyer of a start headed our group
into first corner held them off fore 2 laps and then
had some ace racing with riders I trust! All well
till I go up the slip road (my F1 cant stop as well as
a 250 RS Honda) I was nearly in Athlone before
getting it turned round. Nevermind I had a go really
enjoyed it and I'm sure I will be back next
year.<br><br>This tribute to Joey from Jordan<br>Many years ago
there was a man, a man who was born to ride. A man who
was born to make a difference. A man who separated a
man from a child in motorcycling. It's your man Joey
Dunlop. From his first race on a tiger cub in Northern
Ireland 1966 to his last in Estonia 2000.<br> Just over
60,000 people came to his tragic funeral, in a small
town in Ballymoney in the James Duff church. He was
missed by the whole world. Ireland and Great Britain
miss him.<br> He is also missed on the 37.47 mile
course the Isle of man TT. Setting the unbeatable record
of 26 TT wins and 3 man of the year
1998,1999,2000.<br>From early in his career he learned to master the
sport. He was the big red apple on the red apple
tree.<br>He put the race in racing. In my own words all and
anyone who has heard the word motorcycling will miss
him. We will never witness his like again.<br><br>By
Jordan Leonard

My Skerries.<br>Skerries Road Race the first race
of the year after a long winter. I had to stay at
home for the Dundalk meeting.<br>We arrived late
Thursday night. Getting thoroughly disinfected at the
port, , the man looked inside the van and said it would
all have to come out, so the bikes could be
disinfected. Fair enough ( we were all real happy just to be
there) out it all had to come. If foot and mouth gets to
Skerries I'm sure it "wasn’t me "<br>Practice went ok,.
Untill I saw Liam Mc Aleer fall off. I know Liam of old
and have had some of my best road race dices with
him, It just puts you off when you see someone you
know in the hedge again. <br>I have been to Skerries
plenty of times and know my way around fairly well the
trouble is everyone else knows the way round and with a
chicane after the jump and the alterations to Dublin
corner there are even fewer places to pass, Never mind,
it's fun to ride round skerries so that's what
happened, I just rode round qualified on the back of the
grid.<br>Race day the support race is the first race of the day
and after my poor performance in practice Im on the
back row, with 2 waves going off in front those 10
second intervals feel longer then off we go I had a
fairly good race with a guy on a GSXR 750 till he pulled
in with" handling difficulties "then a clear run to
the flag, eccept when the leaders came past which
gives me the best seat in the house to watch the race
for a bit. <br> I'm constantly being told no one
cares where I finish just so long as it keeps going
round, because they all listen for the noise. A real
surprise to find that my picture was on the front of the
program,it made one of my sponsors (Dara Brady) very happy,
He had just bought a stack of programs without
looking at them and got the shock of his life to see his
name there.<br>The presentation in theYacht was kept
short ( so club could join in the celebration ) I can
just about remember getting a lift back .I had no
trouble sleeping in a tent that night!

Hi.<br>My name is Huw Huws I have been racing at
pure road races in Ireland and the isle of man since
1993.<br>I race a 1990 f1 rotary in the modern class and a
1972 commando in the classic race.<br>Im on the net
looking for helpers,if you ever fancied helping out a
race team get in touch all sorts of things need
doing.<br>Or just want to talk Nortons no problem!<br>Just get
in touch,please dont be shy <br>Thanks for
listening<br><br>nortonroadracing.com

I have created a new site at <br>nortonroadracing.com