another legendary bike at the national motorcycle museum is the double engined norton top fuel bike of ian messenger and derek chinn, i almost missed this slice of english drag racing history amongst the packed hall's, my heart skipped a beat when i saw it, it must be 30 year's since i've seen this machine, i alway's marvelled at how massive it looked, but, when i saw it again i couldn't believe how small it was, two norton twin's, shorrock's blower and massive s.u. carb's, all linked together with a plumber's nightmare of braided hoses, proper dangerous............
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