NORTON back in production

[grandpaul]

It'll happen, but not 'till next year (I believe) I'd be pleasantly suprised if the first SE buyers took delivery before Christmas (perfect PR ploy, actually)

The good thing for Garner is that he just had to write out a check for the entire Norton entity, then slap up a pre-fab metal building for the new facilities. All they do is text in an order for "X" number of wheels, frames, body parts, injectors, forks, etc., then bolt them all together. it's still unclear who is actually building the engines, and where that's being done. it's certainly not in the teeny tiny pix they put up on the web...

[LeftoverHippie]

Can't stop laughing -

The idea that the Brits (Lucas) makes ECU for a fuel injected model. Is reliability important to anyone?

Sorry this is just too funny.

[dcproofrock]

Originally Posted by grandpaul

It'll happen, but not 'till next year (I believe) I'd be pleasantly suprised if the first SE buyers took delivery before Christmas (perfect PR ploy, actually)

The good thing for Garner is that he just had to write out a check for the entire Norton entity, then slap up a pre-fab metal building for the new facilities. All they do is text in an order for "X" number of wheels, frames, body parts, injectors, forks, etc., then bolt them all together. it's still unclear who is actually building the engines, and where that's being done. it's certainly not in the teeny tiny pix they put up on the web...

I can't be asked to look it up, but the engine builder is a British company that has a good reputaion for they're engines. Garner also owns Spondon, so we don't have to guess where the frames are coming from.

Originally Posted by LeftoverHippie

Can't stop laughing -

The idea that the Brits (Lucas) makes ECU for a fuel injected model. Is reliability important to anyone?

Sorry this is just too funny.

The "Leftover" in your alias is apt.

Lucas, just like the rest of the UK, has moved beyond the post war reconstruction era.
They survived the Thatcher years so I suspect their products are vialble on the world market. I have a new Lucas alternator in my Commando and I ride at night with impunity, and a bright headlight.

[LeftoverHippie]

Originally Posted by dcproofrock

Lucas, just like the rest of the UK, has moved beyond the post war reconstruction era.
They survived the Thatcher years so I suspect their products are vialble on the world market. I have a new Lucas alternator in my Commando and I ride at night with impunity, and a bright headlight.

Ha, LMAO

Take your battery out and try that.

[dcproofrock]

Originally Posted by LeftoverHippie

Ha, LMAO

Take your battery out and try that.

It won't work. I have a Bosch electronic ignition and they don't like it if you don't have a fully charged battery. That's why I had to get a new alternator in the first place. I haven't had to charge the battery for over a year now.

[grandpaul]

Install all Sparx stuff with a good 2MC capacitor, you don't need a battery...

[REIntercepter60]

Hate to mention another publication but Motorcycle Classics had a full spread on the 'New" Norton. I think the black ones are demos on what they want, I'm sure with a little more development it's going to look better, although it's not bad.

[dcproofrock]

Originally Posted by REIntercepter60

Hate to mention another publication but Motorcycle Classics had a full spread on the 'New" Norton. I think the black ones are demos on what they want, I'm sure with a little more development it's going to look better, although it's not bad.

Depending on the angle you shoot from you can make the prototypes look very cool or make them look like they are derived from the Confederate Wraith.
You can always do something about the look of a bike without having to do a total redesign. What concerns me at the moment is the choice of 270deg. timing on the production bike. It sounds like crap. Dreer's bike had 360deg. timing and the drawings used in their earlier press releases showed an engine with 360deg. timing.
Norton faithful that put their non-refundable deposits on the production bike promised at the beginning of summer were sorely disappointed. Now they have been double and tripley disappointed. They have to wait as long as it takes for their bikes and now they are faced with the decision of whether to throw good maney after bad in order to take delivery.

Often with a limited production run there are folks willing to pay extra to buy another depositers place in line in order to get one of the first allotment of bikes or cars. I haven't heard this happening with the new Norton. The market buzz is not what Garner's team is portraying.

I still hope that 'New' Norton can pull it off and deliver a good looking, performing and sounding motorcycle. I'd like to have what Kenny Dreer imagined someday.

[grandpaul]

There's folks that weill argue that a 270 firing crank is the way to go for brute power.

Maney and others (Fallicon?) do them...

[Travman]

It looks like the first Norton 961 has rolled out of their factory.
http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/Ne...61-first-ride/