« Reply #23 on: February 22, 2014, 09:51:21 pm »
Alex Jorgenson was the king of Ascot on that Norton. It's got a very trick 3" tube backbone frame. I'm not sure if it was the frame or the 85 hp that made the bike so awesome...I suspect a bit of both + a take no prisoners rider. Ron Wood was and still is one of dirt track racings real innovators and he's tried a lot of different frame ideas over the decades. I guess if the 3"tube frame was a standout innovation everyone would have copied it. As it is though it's a great one off that combined with a ball tearer engine and a great rider won the Ascot Championship 3 years running.
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