Old Bike Australasia - June 03, 2018

42 :OLD BIKE AUSTRALASIA

VAN VEEN

StoryAlan Cathcart

PhotosKyoichi Nakamura

VAN VEEN OCR 1000 ROTARY

Rotary

Revival?

Around thirty years ago

rotary-engined motorcycles

seemed set to be the next

big thing, after the Norton

RC588 scored a Wankel-

engined bike’s greatest

victory by winning the 1992

Senior TT in the Isle of Man.

ROAD TEST