Now that’s a headline I never thought I’d type before! The seller of this bike built it after falling in love with the Norton Manx while watching an AHRMA race, but he wanted to ride on the streets. He had just bought a KLR650, and…well, you can guess the rest.
In the seller’s words: “My friend had a couple authentic Manx Racing frames laying around so I borrowed one to see if my recent KLR purchase would be suitable as I was very impressed with the power and stone solid dependability of it. I don’t know if it was dumb luck or it was meant to be, but after a few measurements I was certain of the fit.
So I was off to England to order a Manx Frame after finding out Norton Andover was still selling them. Owning the company Legendary-Motorcycles and marketing Café Racer seats and tanks I was off on designing the parts necessary to build kits based on using as much of a donor KLR as possible including wire harness, electronics, controls triple tree, forks, brakes, hubs, etc.”
The seller modeled it after a ’54 Norton Manx but it’s titled in Florida as a kit bike – it utilizes not just the engine from a KLR but also the forks, cooling system, brakes, and ignition. It’d be interesting to see someone walk out to this with a Kawasaki key! The seller is the owner of Legendary-Motorcycles and he uses it as a display bike for some of his products. Looks like at some point he was marketing the conversion kit as a product but this is the first I’ve ever heard of it:
So, what do you think? I tried searching for a video to hear what this sounded like but came up empty.
Find this KLR-powered Manx for sale in Leesburg, Florida with an opening bid of $4,500 and a BIN of $11,850 here on eBay.