Anyone see it?

Jean

(I deserve no credit, I saw it on another board)

After you hit the first road bump you're going to need a new front mudguard

Do I get a prize

Jean, with your engineering talents I'm sure you could come up with a solution

Kevin

The gearshift lever is on the wrong side, and there is something very strange about the outline of the timing cover at the bottom??

Dave

Maybe the forks only have one inch of movement!

No kick !

click wrote:After you hit the first road bump you're going to need a new front mudguard

Do I get a prize

Jean, with your engineering talents I'm sure you could come up with a solution

Kevin

Bingo you win the cupie doll

No engineering involved, just copy the other makers design if it's good enough

Something tells me this was done in photoshop and never existed in metal

Jean

PS To Norton, fix it fast, some are making really bad comments about this blunder. If it was done in photoshop, then admit to it, that would be a lot better than letting people think something else has been done the same way elsewhere.

Come on folks, get a grip.

These are a few press shots released well ahead of anything getting delivered. The mudguard doesn't appear to have the right radius for the wheel/tyre combination and it's not fitted well, the back end is further off the wheel than the front. Probably because its not got the production guard fitted, probably because they didn't have one at the time the shots were taken.
If it was photoshopped it would fit properly.

I doubt very much they would ship a bike with a mudguard crashing a against the oil cooler, give the guys at Norton a break.

Front guard Silly me I thought it was that it was missing a side- or centre-stand.

And the decals are going down hill.

its fracking ugly?

Maybe it is just me but the earlier bikes were prettier.

It is not in my shed that's the problem.

Rich_j wrote:Come on folks, get a grip.

These are a few press shots released well ahead of anything getting delivered. The mudguard doesn't appear to have the right radius for the wheel/tyre combination and it's not fitted well, the back end is further off the wheel than the front. Probably because its not got the production guard fitted, probably because they didn't have one at the time the shots were taken.
If it was photoshopped it would fit properly.

I doubt very much they would ship a bike with a mudguard crashing a against the oil cooler, give the guys at Norton a break.

Are you seeing this right? The mud guard is attached to the non-moving upper forks. I believe Olhins have 4.5" of travel so as Kevin said, the 1st bump...

I'd say if it wasn't a photoshop screw up they must have been grinding out some round the clock shifts to complete it for the photo shoot. I think it has to be photoshop as there is no way they came supplied from Ohlin like that. Here's a typical Ohlin inverted style mud guard mount.

http://www.ohlins.com/Our-products/Moto ... ypersport/

Sometimes reputations can be broken with a simple screwup like that, either metal or phoshop, someone made a blunder and the factory should correct it as soon as possible, take a look at one comment on this site http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthre ... 1&page=129 Now it is also public here and the internet has a way to fan the flames to turn an ember in a raging fire, the only way out is to snuff it out by admitting it was done:

1- as a quick lash up for a photoshoot
2- in photoshop and the artist didn't know the top of the forks would not move while the rest of the wheel would
3- your guess is as good as mine
4- We have fired Waldo who is responsible for fender design
5- every Norton comes with a huge life insurance policy and the beneficiary is Norton

Jean

That's pretty hilarious. If you look at the other models, they have exactly the same fender mounting clamp, but they have conventional forks, and it clamps to the slider. Looks like someone just fit the same fender and bracket to the USD forks for the pictures. Lovely.

Ken