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  • Kenny Dreer officially resigned as a director on the board of Norton Motorsports


  • Info from Ramp Motorcycle Gearshops

  • Classic Motorcycling: A Guide to the 21st Century
  • BSA CD-Manual
  • Triumph CD-Manual
  • Norton CD-Manual
  • AJS Matchless CD-Manual

  • Main Sponsors Year 2007
    Dick Mann

    BritBike Newsletter #65
    Tip of the month! Read Mann of his time!
    August 2007

    BikerKiss.com - the largest biker personals site! Greetings BritBiker!

    Vintage Motorcycle Days - Ohio are over and it draw a record crowd. 80 BritBiker members joined in on BritBikes Saturday cookout and it was greatly appreciated by everyone. Thanks you all who made it happen again




    BritBike review:<br> Just finished reading Author Ed Youngblood's book about famous racing star #2 Dick Mann, Mann of his time. Being a fan of Dick Mann I did not have a clue really what Dick Mann has achieved both on and of the race course. Thank you Ed Youngblood for writing a book as good as this one. Despite being Swedish I enjoyed reading every page of this book in English and now I know a lot more about The Mann of his time. Get your sample here!

    Next book to read is new to the market. See Classic Motorcycling below by Rex Bunn.


    Ride Safe
    Morgan Johansson
    editor@britbike.com

    Kenny Dreer officially resigned as a director on the board of Norton Motorsports
    To all BritBike Newsletter readers,

    Effective today, I have tendered my resignation to the Norton Motorsports Board. My reasons for resigning are two fold; first I have done all that I could to assist the board to find resolution in an effort to move the company to a next group. Currently this is a continuing process. Secondarily, I believe I have afforded Norton not only my time but my best efforts over the course of the company's existence, and now it is time that I move on. My new company will be "Kenny Dreer Motorcycles". The focus will be Vintage and current Euro based motorcycles, restorations, custom builds, performance upgrading, custom and performance parts. I look forward to seeing a lot of old faces, and making new friends as well. My apologies for the silence.

    I want to take this opportunity to once again, thank all of those many people who believed in Kenny Dreer and Norton. The 961 Norton Commando was and still is everything I dreamed a new Norton should be. Hopefully the stars will have better alignment next time around.

    Best regards,

    Kenny Dreer

    Ed's note: We'll see more coming from Kenny soon and he'll be back advertising his business on BritBike.com

    Visit Kennys old company Norton Motorcycles

    Ramp Motorcycles

    Info from Ramp Motorcycle Gearshops

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    Warranties can be written for Unites States and Canadian customers

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    Classic Motorcycling: A Guide to the 21st Century
    Just published!

    By Rex Bunn

    A different and fascinating new look at classic motorcycling with an international flavour sure to appeal to all owners (and intending owners) of classic bikes worldwide. This is a book about all the things classic enthusiasts need to know, but rarely seem to be adequately covered elsewhere. Things such as how and where to buy a classic, which classic is right for you, the prices of classics and their likely appreciation in future years, how many classics survive and where they can be found, licensing, registration and testing procedures in Australia, NZ, USA and the UK, riding, maintenance, workshop equipment, spares and their availability, projects to improve most classics, clothing and safety and of course the simple joy of riding and enjoying classics! Fully illustrated and clearly written this is an excellent and useful guide for the newcomer to classics as well as the more experienced.

    277 pages, about 125 photos, charts and tables, softback, ISBN 978-0-9547912-8-5 .

    Go to Panther-publishing for further details

    BSA CD-Manual
    The very best BSA compilation ever produced! Buy this CD & You support BritBike.com

    4th Edition The BSA Double-CD

    Covers some 1930's models, the wartime SV, and almost all models from 1945 to 1973.
    HUGE Service Sheet section! This is the "must have" collection for anyone who owns, maintains, restores, or just loves BSA motorcycles.
    Price: US$65.00 includes worldwide shipping

    Read more about BSA CD-Manuals!

    Order Your BSA, Triumph, AJS-Matchless, Norton & Lucas CD-Manuals here!

    Triumph CD Triumph CD-Manual
    The very best Triumph compilation ever produced! Buy this CD & You support BritBike.com

    Triumph Fourth edition The Triumph Double- CD
    The Triumph Collection covers almost every Triumph model from 1935 to 1985, with Spare Parts Lists, Workshop Manuals, Service Sheets, or technical articles. The fourth edition has now grown so large it is a double-CD, over 1GB of material in all.
    Price: US$65.00 includes worldwide shipping

    Read more about Triumph CD-Manuals!

    Order Your BSA, Triumph, AJS-Matchless, Norton & Lucas CD-Manuals here!

    Norton CD Manual Norton CD-Manual
    The very best Norton compilation ever produced! Buy this CD & You support BritBike.com

    The Norton CD is now into its FOURTH EDITION, and covers not just the Commando, but all the so- called "heavy-weight" twins (as opposed to the under- 400 cc twins) and the "classic" singles - the ES2, the International, and of course the Manx. AND, we even have a post- Commando bike covered, with the inclusion of the workshop manual for the rotary-engine Interpol 2. There is a rebuild manual which also covers the LIGHTWEIGHT TWINS, and the Commando section has been added to with another Parts List, Stage 2 Tuning Notes for the 850, and other minor service-related matters. There is of course a complete set of factory- issued Service Sheets for the Commando (over 170 pages worth!). AND we have added a new Maintenance Manual for the 16H, Big 4, 18, & ES2 singles, and more "memorabilia". There is also a NEW Engine Data Base which covers from the 1946 Model 18 to the 1963 Atlas. This is a single-CD set.
    Price: US$65.00 includes worldwide shipping

    Read more about Norton CD-Manuals!

    Order Your BSA, Triumph, AJS-Matchless, Norton & Lucas CD-Manuals here!

    AJS Matchless CD-Manual AJS Matchless CD-Manual
    The very best AJS Matchless compilation ever produced! Buy this CD & You support BritBike.com

    This CD covers AJS and/or Matchless machines from 1926 almost without any breaks right through to 1967 for Parts Lists, plus fifteen workshop manuals or out-of- print service and maintenance textbooks covering much the same period. Both twins and singles are covered, and one of the workshop manuals is a Norton Matchless full-on Workshop Manual that covers ALL models (up to 650 cc twins) from 1957 to 1966. The Norton-engined models are well-covered too in other works, and there are lots of lovely reproductions of sales brochures from various periods as well as some excellent histories of the Matchless marque and engine number details. This is a very complete compilation and a MUST for the AJS/Matchless enthusiast. This is a single-CD set.
    Price: US$65.00 includes worldwide shipping

    Read more about AJS-Matchless CD-Manuals!

    Order Your BSA, Triumph, AJS-Matchless, Norton & Lucas CD-Manuals here!
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