David Garside

David W. Garside is an inventor[1] and former project engineer at BSA's Kitts Green research facility. He is notable for having developed an air-cooled twin-rotor Wankel motorcycle engine which powered the Norton Classic road bike.[2][3] Although the Classic was not the first production rotary-engined bike, it was significantly lighter, smoother, more powerful and better-handling than the contemporary Suzuki RE5.[4]

  1. ^ Garside's patents [1]
  2. ^ The Wankel Rotary Engine: A History By John B. Hege page 137, ISBN 978-0-7864-2905-9
  3. ^ Denniss, Tony (1990). "The Norton Rotary". Retrieved 14 August 2011.
  4. ^ Perkins, Kris (1991). Norton Rotaries (pp 30, 36). The Crowood Press. ISBN 978-1-85532-181-6.