Did I say Americans have no taste? Paranoid would fit though.
I also didn't say only America has Rappers and Pimps or even Hipsters, however they do have plenty of each, so if there are no dealers, where are they going to buy the bikes?
The "chome" isn't al-u-min-ium
it is carbon that has been painted with, and from the Norton sales brousure :using a special silver-impregnated paint which is incredibly difficult to work with . The finished effect looks like chrome.
True Norton didn't design the street, our very own ex heroin addict Henry Cole had something to do with that, I still say it looks good though.
The design team are not bad, the V4 the Superlight and the 961s (didn't an American design that one though?) look good but to paint the V4 to look like chrome, makes it look rank to me. The figures say Norton is £1.6m in the red, so coupled with strugling to supply bikes, then limiting ones that would sell, to a run of 50, pricing the V4 and the Superlight out of the normal persons market and to top it all the Atlas is ugly, and not a Norton but a Zongshen which makes it Chinese, which will affect sales until it is a proven product. It does make me wonder how they are going to prosper. Mind you I did state that I don't understand big business so what do I know?
Now then, back to this taste thing!!!