History has a strange habit of repeating itself. Exactly ten years ago, give or take a few days, we featured a twin-engined Norton called ?Double Trouble.?
And now we have an even more incredible Norton, following the same format, called ?Double H.? It looks vintage but it?s a recent build, and uses mostly Commando rather than Atlas engine parts. It?s also supercharged, because nothing succeeds like excess.

?Double H? is the work of Herb Becker, a Norton racebike guru who lives in Ontario. It?s a tribute to the legendary Hogslayer drag bike, which beat the Harley-Davidsons to take home four Top Fuel World Championships.
Photographer Douglas MacRae managed to track Herb down and extract a few details about the build. ?Double H is not just a mockup, but a full running bike that could make a pass,? Doug reports.
Herb is a tool and die maker by trade, which has given him the next-level machining skills and mechanical knowledge required for a build like this.
?I was into drag racing cars for many years,? he says, ?and remember admiring John Gregory’s ?Hogslayer? twin engine Norton build. It ruled NHRA top fuel drag racing in the 70s, with T.C. Christiansen riding.?

?I never thought that drag racers got the respect they deserved for their builds. Later, I got into building road race Nortons, which won at Daytona several times and took the [1998] AHRMA Sportsman 750 championship.?
Herb later restored Norton and Triumph drag race bikes, but really wanted to see a ...