| Author | Message | ||
     Firstbuell |
who knew? scroll down to this project http://www.ftr-classic-motorsports.nl/FTRPage8.htm anyone speak Dutch? | ||
| Ducbsa |
From Google Translate: Another project we are doing is a Barton. The Barton is a three cylinder two stroke racer based on a Suzuki GT380. In England, for this Suzuki water cooled cylinder heads developed and board up to 500cc. The Barton had 100 hp. This was early 70s racing in England. The block was placed in a frame of a Yamaha TZ, Seeley Spondon or mounted. Barton This is built as a Racer from this period with a Seeley frame. The Seeley replica frame FTR Classic Motorsports made. | ||
| Trojan |
This is slightly worng, although the negine in this particular bike may have begun life as a GT380 the original 3 cylinder Barton was built from a TR500 Suzuki Twin with an extra cylinder grafted onto the side. This was done at around the same time as others were playing with TZ Yamaha twins and turning them into 3 cylilnder race bikes (Ted broad was the most succesful UK builder if I remember correctly). Once Yamaha introduced their own multi cylinder TZ500/700 bikes these 'home built' specials were made pretty redundant unfortunately  Barton later went on to build his own square four cylinder 2 stroke for the Sparton project (Barton engine/Spondon frame), which of course is where the Erik Buell connection comes in  The Seeley frame kits from the very early '70s as very popular with UK racers at the time and were bought as a complete rolling chassis ready for your donor Jap motor (most succesful in the Yamsel of John Cooper). (Message edited by trojan on December 22, 2010) |
