Ron Wood Norton flat track racer

We can’t get enough of Ron Wood’s beautifully prepared flat track racers. Jamie Waters’ bike was featured in Sideburn #3; it's one of two big-tube framed Nortons built by Wood, and it’s also one of the few Nortons to make an impact on the AMA Flat Track champs. According to Waters, the bike “won the Ascot Championship three years running in the mid-seventies, and is full of Ron Wood’s and CR Axtell’s best stuff”. (Axtell was a noted cylinder head and flow bench specialist.) Norton's support faded away soon after, the result of business crises at home, and the 750...