If you knew all this then why didn't you at least let everyone know on this site and the Norton Owners club site, it might have saved some people a lot of anguish, never mind money ?
I have made my opinion of Mr.G. known to all and sundry but also found, as a member of the NOC at the time, that posts critical of the great new hope for the rebirth of the British motorcycle industry (no, not Triumph, stupid!) were deleted about as fast as one could type & post them.
I also have at least four letters I sent to the editor of Roadholder in the last few years, none of which was ever printed.
All Norton enthusiasts seemed to be in a trance and reacted allergic to anybody destroying their dreams. As I said before he saw us, Andover Norton and myself, as a threat and even posted a nasty commentary on our facebook page.
He told lies about us and our licence contract he inherited from Dreer/Curme/Norton America whom I still see as the only honest party in the Norton game in the last 3 decades and who were, tellingly, ignored by the worthies in the UK because they weren't "English".
The same worthies then lapped up all the lies Garner told them, then repeated them to me with rolling eyes: "He will terminate your licence!" "He will bankrupt you!" "He says he will ruin you and take your company over!", happily ignoring that Garners empire was clearly doomed in 2008, when he was director of 11 companies, 9 went bust and the assets of what he left were less than ¼ million.
I did look him up and tell people but half didn't want to know, the other half was afraid of being taken to court for libel. Also happily ignoring Andover Norton was well-funded by my family and always profitable as opposed to a far more imposing empire in Downington Fall with an array of Aston Martins all funded, unkowingly and unwillingly, by British OAPs as an "investment".