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[ChipBeck_imp]

I should have known better. Yeah I was talking about the 650 and even though you posted W800 I wasn't sharp enough to realize it was a new bigger engined model. I stand corrected. You can probably answer another question. My objection to the shaft can drive wasn't it's looks, it was that the original Bonneville's didn't have that. I know another vintage bike did. What was it??

Chip

I'm not sure if we're playing trivia now, or if you just don't know! I'm not sure about any parallel twins that might've had the bevel drive, but I know classic Ducatis did at one time.

As far as the Bonnies not having the bevel drive, well, even the old W series Kawasakis in the 60s didn't have it, so who knows why Kawi incorporated it into the W650/800. I'd like to think so they could one-up the new Bonnie when it came out, but that's just what I'd like to think...

I didn't know and couldn't find a British bike with a shaft (bevel) driven camshaft although I could have sworn I'd seen one in the past. I knew Ducati used them. It was bugging me so I did a little research and finally found it. The bike photo I saw a long time ago was a late 1940's to early 1950's Norton 500cc single which had a bevel drive on the right hand side of it's cylinder.

Chip

I didn't know and couldn't find a British bike with a shaft (bevel) driven camshaft although I could have sworn I'd seen one in the past. I knew Ducati used them. It was bugging me so I did a little research and finally found it. The bike photo I saw a long time ago was a late 1940's to early 1950's Norton 500cc single which had a bevel drive on the right hand side of it's cylinder.

Chip
I vaguely remembered something along those lines, but had no idea it was a Norton single.

Took a while but I found a decent photo of one. This is a 1951 Norton 500cc single. A pretty good looking bike. I bet one of these would cause quite a stir if you rode to your local "Cars & Coffee" on it.

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