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Speaking about the USA market only. Unfortunately the market has already soured on Norton along with a small network of soured dealers. You might find one dealer who might want to sell them as long as they aren't a service nightmare. The new version would need to be 100% well ok 99% flawless to get back any credibility on the 961. Using technology from 1999 is not the way to do it. I mean even some modern fuel injection would be a step up. We have taken apart a lot of the 961's and you can immediately see how poorly they are made. So much is design flaws that keep getting duplicated instead of fixed. Its not just small changes that need to be made, its a complete shift. Then once you do that you are back to getting the bike approved for a US Market which means passing CARB again. Will they go through all the trouble just to sell a handful of motorcycles? You can't answer that until you actually know how many they sold here in the first place. We have talked to some of the original dealers and the numbers sold don't add up to much. In fact no one actually knows how many are even in the USA. Also look at the classifieds over in the UK. Many new bikes still sitting for sale and last I looked 20-30 used on the market place that haven't moved muchThe look of the motorcycle is what draws many in but to have something that is so inconsistent from one motorcycle to the next is just crazy. Its like the Delorean of motorcycles.
Speaking about the USA market only. Unfortunately the market has already soured on Norton along with a small network of soured dealers. You might find one dealer who might want to sell them as long as they aren't a service nightmare. The new version would need to be 100% well ok 99% flawless to get back any credibility on the 961. Using technology from 1999 is not the way to do it. I mean even some modern fuel injection would be a step up. We have taken apart a lot of the 961's and you can immediately see how poorly they are made. So much is design flaws that keep getting duplicated instead of fixed. Its not just small changes that need to be made, its a complete shift. Then once you do that you are back to getting the bike approved for a US Market which means passing CARB again. Will they go through all the trouble just to sell a handful of motorcycles? You can't answer that until you actually know how many they sold here in the first place. We have talked to some of the original dealers and the numbers sold don't add up to much. In fact no one actually knows how many are even in the USA. Also look at the classifieds over in the UK. Many new bikes still sitting for sale and last I looked 20-30 used on the market place that haven't moved much
The look of the motorcycle is what draws many in but to have something that is so inconsistent from one motorcycle to the next is just crazy. Its like the Delorean of motorcycles.
