David Edwards' P11

What’s former editor David Edwards been up to since leaving Cycle World magazine last year? He tells us he's been putting his free time and severance pay to good use, “Buying cool old mo’cycles!” One of them is this custom 1967 Norton P11 special, a machine designed as a desert racer. The P11 concept started life as a prototype reportedly built by Californian Norton distributor Bob Blair, who installed an Atlas 750cc twin in the lightweight frame of a Matchless G85 CS. The history of Edwards' bike tallies with this: “It was purchased new by a Northern California roadrace/flat-track tuner,...