Bugger,they are dead in the water.Ah well,who cares - closest I'd get to one is coining the tank of some rich pricks pride and joy.
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Bugger,they are dead in the water.Ah well,who cares - closest I'd get to one is coining the tank of some rich pricks pride and joy.
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Hardcore Biker
poohs i hate it when little guys get squashed. yet another step towards the global domination of just a few manufacturers....
r4q2
Yeah abit sad really, I liked that new commando.
Hardcore Biker
bugger thats got to suck,
Dont sweat the small stuff, It only makes you stressed,
Hardcore Biker
Damn not that I could afford one anyway.
I love the smell of twin V16's in the morning..
Forum whore
now before we feel too sorry for them. Just remember who was responsible for the motorcycle with a rotary engine....
There is no dark side of the moon, really, as a matter of fact. Its all dark...
Forum whore
BSA were responsable for the Norton rotary,that's where it started.
One hell of a ride.
Some Wankel.Originally Posted by froggyfrenchman
Perhaps Norton translates to 'Destined to Bankrupt' in Hindi or something.
straight to the pool room
I feel sorry for existing owners who need the parts back up!!
"Resort to the law so exhausts finances, patience, courage, hope, so overthrows the brain and breaks the heart, that there is not one honourable lawyer who would not give the warning "Suffer any wrong rather than come here".
Charles Dickens
C'mon lets ride....
My apologies. Norton bought the tooling from Sachs.
oh and this link may be usefull-
http://www.nortonmotors.co.uk/
Hardcore Biker
A guy called Mercer, lived in Bradford, northern England, had a BSA Bantam powered by a home built rotary in the 1950s. Many years before the wankel engine. As far as I can remember the bike is in the Dewsbury museum
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I have an old magazine around somewhere with that rotary powered BSA in it,and the story about it.Back in the days of the big upheaval when BSATriumphVilliersNortonMatchlessAJSandahostofothe rs were going under and throwing everything overboard to stay afloat...some guy had been set the task to make a rotary motor...and in the panic they forgot about him.I guess some beancounter said one day - ''Why do we supply a box of 2 ply toilet rolls to shed 47 every week? Go down there and see what they are doing'' And they found he'd been working quietly away for years undisturbed and had that prototype running.He was too far along to stop,I think having sorted the charge cooling,and they continued the development.Norton was just a name to hang on it because BSA and Matchless were out of favour,and Triumph were the bad boys at Meridan doing the communist thing.
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I stand duly corected
There is no dark side of the moon, really, as a matter of fact. Its all dark...
Hardcore Biker
Shouldnt that read "norton goes under-again?"
What a shame, its good to have more manufacturers in the mix.
"channellling the Pleideans"
thats a shame.
I thought long and hard about going on their waitlist for $500USD up front. You got a sweatshirt and a hat also. Glad I didnt now, cos that would have been an expensive hat.
This months Cycle World has a four page feature on one of the production intent 962's, along with the Triumph Scrambler and the Ducati SportClassic.
As for the comment about parts, there are heaps of repro and NOS stuff for "old " Nortons, Kenny Dreer's bike was all new.
Hopefully someone will pick it* up and run with it.
*it being the proprietary design, the name and all the tooling.
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