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    The featherbed frame was a motorcycle frame invented by the McCandless brothers and offered to the British Norton motorcycle company to improve the performance...
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  • type of peatland forming in particular conditions. The featherbed frame, a type of motorcycle frame originally designed for performance racing, named for...
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    1953 it had a single downtube swinging-arm frame. From 1959 it used the Rex McCandless-designed featherbed frame, with upgrades including an improved AMC...
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    the Norton featherbed frame was regarded as the best handling frame. Triton bikes aimed to combine the "best engine" with the "best frame" by replacing...
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    500 cc to 600 cc From 1960 model year, the featherbed frame for all Dominators was altered so that the frame tubes in front of the seat were narrower,...
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    available to export markets as the Model 88 with the Featherbed frame. Later, as production of this frame increased, it became a regular production model,...
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    Moto-Guzzi, Harley-Davidson and Indian) used steel tubing. Examples Norton Featherbed frame Most Ducati Motorcycles Honda CB750 Unlike the development seen in...
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    Bonneville engine in a Norton Featherbed frame. A less common hybrid was the "Tribsa", which had a Triumph engine in a BSA duplex frame. Other hybrids included...
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    the engine continued almost from first to last unchanged, the famed featherbed frame was adopted for the 1953 models. By the 1950s though, the model was...
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    Norton Featherbed frame and a Triumph Bonneville engine. It used the most common and fastest racing engine combined with the best handling frame of its...
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