P.S. Nortons and Garner have been making statements about their V4 for quite some while now.

Maybe we should start a 'book' on it, and place bids on when it will appear.
Jan 2015 for me.
It doesn't have to run, or race, just appear in public.
Could be like the Nemesis, posthumously.....

We can live in hope. Good luck to them, say I.

This weeks GP Week (available online at http://www.gpweek.com) says that Norton's GP "bid has foundered, with the company facing financial difficulties."

Thats why I said the bike can appear posthumously.
Out of the 'secrets' file in a few years....

However, those stories of financial doom have also been circulating for a while.
Maybe the V4 stuff is to reassure that things are well ?
Sponsors apply here ??

Sponsors won't apply- remember the works Yamahas in GP1 (last years championship winning team!) didn't find one?- and all these tall stories are but a smokescreen. A friend sent me an e-mail: "He was briefly interviewed on the late evening TT programme here; body language said he didn't want to be there/say anything. Almost felt sorry for him."
I heard today the famous designer Terrible Blanche said he wasn't overly excited when not even his first paycheck materialized. I hear there are a couple of suppliers getting nasty..... All rumours you say, but I could name names. It is a small industry- everybody talks to everybody.
I also hear you will shortly read all about it. Within the next couple of weeks, in fact.

Gosip and innuendo! Norton have suffered from it on more than one occasion, and this time is no different.
Mr Gardner soon realised that Terblanche wasn't up to much and got rid of him.
I'd like to be a 961 owner (but can't afford it on my pension) but a V4 Norton will be something else.

marston rhode wrote:Gosip and innuendo! Norton have suffered from it on more than one occasion, and this time is no different.
Mr Gardner soon realised that Terblanche wasn't up to much and got rid of him.
I'd like to be a 961 owner (but can't afford it on my pension) but a V4 Norton will be something else.

Seriously, most overrated motorcycle designer in centuries.

*SIGH* chance i'll be able to get one in 10 years is begining to look somewhat grim.