Rotax Engined Norton?

DonOR

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Sometimes I wake up in the early morning, thinking of the oddest things... no not dancing girls, not this morning anyway.

It was a number of years ago, I think I remember reading about a european outfit that had bought the Norton name, and was in the process of developing a roadster, powered by a big (650?) Rotax single. Is this my imagination or a vague memory? I wonder what happened to it all....

Cheers,

Don
 
I often wake up/ not fall asleep thinking of such crazyness. Check out my posts on the reality of some of these.
 
Whatever it was, it became part of the conglomerated reconstituted Norton empire now owned by Stuart Garner.
 
Don,

it is included under the Models section on the UK Norton Owners website, the BMW F650 engine as supplied by Rotax was used.
Joe Seifert, who is now Andover Norton, was behind it but his then company sold whatever rights he had to the Norton name to Kenny Dreer so he stopped making bikes.
 
Is Siefert German? Because I vaguely recall some German guy producing an air-cooled Rotax single-powered "Norton" naming-rights special.
 
DonOR said:
Sometimes I wake up in the early morning, thinking of the oddest things... no not dancing girls, not this morning anyway.

It was a number of years ago, I think I remember reading about a european outfit that had bought the Norton name, and was in the process of developing a roadster, powered by a big (650?) Rotax single. Is this my imagination or a vague memory? I wonder what happened to it all....

Cheers,

Don
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We talked with Joe Seifert (you know him here as ZFD) for several hours and got the real story about his efforts to make a new Norton bike. If you stay patient you'll get to hear about it in the documentary. Sorry to make you wait. But it is a good story. :mrgreen:

And there are some great pictures of the bike(s).
 
grandpaul said:
swooshdave said:
grandpaul said:
Whatever it was, it became part of the conglomerated reconstituted Norton empire now owned by Stuart Garner.
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Not sure if this is true.
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Certainly not, if it was a Rotax!
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What I mean is that Garner has not consolidated all of the Norton enterprises. Andover Norton is not owned by Garner. I don't think the efforts to create a Norton by Seifert went to Norton America when they bought the European trademark rights from Joe.

And it wasn't a Rotax motor, at least on the prototypes I saw.
 
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