A different take ...

Not quite my cup of tea personally, but an interesting execution with some interesting Norton design cues built into it...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/custom-n...455755?hash=item3d54e7648b:g:tY0AAOSwEEBaTQA~

I hate to be blunt but I remember this bloke raving about how great his bike was and how it was perfect and now, surprise, surprise, it's for sale. No doubt so he can fund his new, even better, custom Norton.

Orrible!!!

engine and gearbox,

The horror, the horror.

Fun to look at and obviously nice work, but I wouldn't want to be tasked with riding it. Isn't riding what any real motorcycle should be about?

Ozark Mountains Norton chopperish thingy - worst of both worlds.
I'm probably guilty of being a grumpy old man... but that thing is shite!!

I love custom bikes but that one just looks horrible, but it's somebody's idea of a good looking motorcycle,the workmanship looks good

someone wanted a Harley vrod

A huge ammount of work, and money but no thanks!

Styling cues from the failed BMW 1200C...

RoadScholar said:

Styling cues from the failed BMW 1200C...

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I have an old friend who has one. It's pretty hard to look at, mostly because it's so outlandish for a stock BMW.

Being from the states it's hard for me to imagine or appreciate a chopper that isn't primative in that "Harley" way. It might be the V-twin thing. But no one in their right mind (just opening old Pandora's box here) would do that to a Vincent. It's even hard for me to contemplate those candied up 'million dollar' bulbous tire Harleys. But maybe it's just what I grew up with. So to each his own.

Definitely NOT a style I would choose, but no question it has been built with far more care than the average chopper.

I hope the engine wasn't modified...

A friend of mine said to me 'at least your bike looks right'. When I built it, it had nothing to do with appearance. It was only ever about functionality, that is why it ended up looking right. There is no other way it could ever have been built. What functions do choppers and bobbers serve ? Appearance is not a function. Every nut and bolt on my Seeley has to be in the right place, otherwise it's function is downgraded. As soon as you start road-racing a bike, you start fixing it. After a few race meetings it usually settles down and you stop breaking and losing bits. The function dictates how the bike will end up looking. When you build a chopper there are no constraints, except it might kill you one day.

I have mates in their early years make and build choppers and hardtail with things they soured around or collecting parts over the years, some of the creations you think you would never be caught out dead on it, but hey the all survived and they sold them for redicless prices that you think the person buying them need to be locked up in a padded cell.
Like myself I was told I was mad at a young age when I convered a near new Commando into the Featerbed frame, I had a plan and knew what I wanted and its one of the best things I ever done to it, do it right the first time and change thing to be even better as time and money allows, the people who thought I was crazy doing it soon change their minds after I took them for a ride on the back pushing it to its limit and they come back shitting themselfs from the way it handled and the ease it did it and with the hot motor changing up to second with the front wheel stand so far off the tar and they are hanging for dear life and me with a grin on my face so wide.
I have only let 2 people I trust ride my Norton and they come back very impress with the way it is and how good it feels, if it wasn't any good I would not have owned it for 43 years now and its even better with all the moden upgrades I have done to it to be even better.

Ashley