Trouble at Mill

All Hype reaLLY , NOT THAT iM IMPRESSED . if THEY PUT ONE ROUND THE I.o.M. , or any bankety RACE circuit , for that matter , IN EAREST . As in W.F.O. then ' someone ' would be convinced it goes .

Reading the tech report in whatever it was , as to DESIGN criteria , mostly I wondered why .But then , looked at a dog eared RIII yesterday , thought the frame was in the way , ankles and extractors , IF
it was going to be stripped and assembled as a hill climb / circuit racer . Decided I wasnt being fed a straight line as to its history , and would probably screw the gearbox out of it running 250 Hp . SO
thought Stuff It . The 3500 Rover F'bed would be Three Quarters the weight . Knees might be an issue . Anyone got a spare trans , thatll do ?
 
Matt, we don't know whether to put you in the design dept, the marketing dept, the sales dept or the advertising dept.

But we think you are saying slap any old thing together, and it will sell.

With genius like that, how can we go wrong.... ??!!
 
having read all the post's here , i cannot come to any conclusion, But just remember this new Norton is a new concept that will have some teething problems.
The Old Commando had a few..widow maker frames,exploding Combat engines etc......and that was from a company who had built bikes for 50 years!

Mayby the New Commando will be sorted..
S Garner is not a old hand in the motorcyce game, But doe's that matter? only is underling's will make or break the company , it's A GOOD BRAND NAME, mean while Stu will be carring his orange box around, he's lucky that the flock preached to have poor hearing :!: My advise would be "leave the ship to the old deck hands" You ain' No Nelson Boy!!
 
Perhaps, in the many, many pages of this thread someone may have brought up this thought before: If it didn't have the name Norton on it, would anyone have noticed the bike at all?
 
powerdoc said:
Perhaps, in the many, many pages of this thread someone may have brought up this thought before: If it didn't have the name Norton on it, would anyone have noticed the bike at all?
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Couldn't agree more.
 
What bike? I`ve seen a photo shop, a shop photo`d & Al Crashcart on one [may have been poor old K.D.s bike] but he may have been CGI`d too...
 
Could'nt agree more!
If i owned the Vincent name and re-badged Hondas...with the VINCENT logo...would they be vincents?
The New Commando is not a Norton ,its a new concept that S Garner as jumped onto the Market ..with the Norton Logo .
People talk about it as though its a Norton, but these are the same people that give good money up front for something they may never own... if you want a Norton go the the Holland Norton Works , I rest my case.



powerdoc said:
Perhaps, in the many, many pages of this thread someone may have brought up this thought before: If it didn't have the name Norton on it, would anyone have noticed the bike at all?
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I have an early Norton Dommie, all iron motor, the 1st design from the late 1940s.
The 70's Commando AND the 961 and the Dreer Nortons are most definitely descendants.

You may not like your childrens children and other descendants, you can ignore tham or deny them all you like, but they are descendants and related flesh-and-blood nethertheless.

And the 961 still (distantly) looks like the iron 1940s Dommies...
 
Norton rose from the ashes briefly and died in Oregon. Those are Aprilia's w/ Norton logos. Word on the street is that it costs 20,000 to not own one of them.
 
Snorton74 said:
Norton rose from the ashes briefly and died in Oregon. Those are Aprilia's w/ Norton logos. Word on the street is that it costs 20,000 to not own one of them.
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Have you LOOKED at what a 961 is ?

The Aprilia connection was the V4 in Spondon frame that raced at the IoM - nothing to do with 961 production Commandos at all.

And, hey, HD got Porsche to design them a motor.
Seen a V-rod prowling around the streets, those things can go, for a cruiser style bike.
And, they don't go bang !
 
Pity they dont still make 99s . & 16 Hs . These commie Urals need some oposition .

Thought the bike shop showroom down the road to be full of 12 yr old wet dream bikes .
Aprilla engine only thing looking like it originated in a engineering works , other than perhaps
the front suspension and wheels/ brakes, maybe . :(
 
H.D. got volkswagen ( They Dont Go Bang . ) to REdesign theyre motor . ( prototype )

Norton :shock: Whosiewotsit COULDVE got COSWORTH to do a decent 1200 4V d.o.h.c. twin , maybe .Bugger the 'unit ' construction.

Blankety Victorys look like BSA or Horch or . ? like that . No independant engines left. No motorcycles MANUFACTURED in ENGLAND .
The Parlimentary bell ringer , pre war to recent , :shock: Was the spie / subverseve / manipulator . :oops: BSAC TSR2 victim also .

CRIKEY . PARANOID people are chaseing me . :(
 
Do they have lights on them . :D
After we'd exhausted the G.P. drivers associations brains trust on Automobiles & techniques , we started on WHATS THE BEST Motorcycle .
( Load of somewhat alcholically befuddled G.P. drivers @ 10 P.M. ) - we = 5 stropy 9 / 10 yr old ' waiters ' .

" Er , M.V. Augoosta , um er theres Gileras "
CAN YOU GET THOSE
"No" "Er "
What about ones you can get ( 8 yrs old here )

Universal and unanamous G.P. Drivers simultaeneously " NORTON. um.er . Manx Nortons ,( Brabham )Yes " (Thinking how do I get out of here and ways to escape ) "
Actually sufficently imbubed to not realise its ' time for us ' to leave . :lol:
 
Cosworth build a Norton, Matt? Would they be up to the Challenge? - L.O.L.
In general, car engine designers make bike mills as overweight lumps with poor rideability.
 
Did you see the thread where someone did, a few years back - and discovered that some of the motor parts were not so new. The heads, in particular.....
 

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