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Norton motorcycles to make a return

http://www.nortonmotorcycles.com/compan ... ?newsID=20

Yeah read or herard that somewhere, whether it's a financially viable return is another story...

Do they come with the built in oil leaks, non functioning electrics and all those other quality points of british bike building?

rooster wrote:Do they come with the built in oil leaks, non functioning electrics and all those other quality points of british bike building?

That's why I titled it "for us oldies"........... ya know , the ones with mechanical abilities who are used to tinkering about on the road side with a bit of a cigarette box for a feeler guage not a farkin air conditioned garage full of electronic whizzy ma thingies

You can have them

Rossi wrote:

rooster wrote:Do they come with the built in oil leaks, non functioning electrics and all those other quality points of british bike building?

That's why I titled it "for us oldies"........... ya know , the ones with mechanical abilities who are used to tinkering about on the road side with a bit of a cigarette box for a feeler guage not a farkin air conditioned garage full of electronic whizzy ma thingies

A bit of cigarette box - bloody flash bastard - we had to grow a fingernail if we needed a feeler guage. Our nut and bolt storage system was a set of cleaned jam jars with the lids nailed to the under side of a shelf and you needed an entire set of imperial spanners to complete the simplest task.

Rossi wrote:Norton motorcycles to make a return

http://www.nortonmotorcycles.com/compan ... ?newsID=20

I wish I had a dollar for every time I have heard this !! (Nortons were made in the US a few years ago, and they looked pretty good actually.....)

I'm with you Rossi, the young'uns these days wouldn't know a feeler guage from a set of points !!!! If its any harder than plug'n'play, well give it to a mechanic at $140 an hour !!!!

u dont charge 140 an hour do you gos???

depends on the customer !!

(normally less than half that for working on the old girls...)

Well i had a week to enjoy a 850 commando when i was a lot younger and apart from the shit my ankle got when it decieded to kick like a mule when starting it was great through those adelaide hills The only thing i had a problem with was the first ride going to change up a gear oooppps rear wheel lock up and a stupid backto front gear box

I must be getting old ..... I'd have one, and I know how to use a feeler gauge and what a set of points looks like

Inchometric or milloperial ???

You know your old when you are fluent in Whitworth sizing / still have a roll of cork gasket in the shed (just in case) have a points file and magneto spanners buried in the bottom of your toolbox somewhere and still think these new fangled disc brake thingies are a touch "savage"

You know your 'experienced' when you see these things as valued treasures in the ol man's shed

IsleofNinja wrote:......You know your old when you are fluent in Whitworth sizing / still have a roll of cork gasket in the shed (just in case) have a points file and magneto spanners buried in the bottom of your toolbox somewhere and still think these new fangled disc brake thingies are a touch "savage" ......

let me see......Old or Not.

Whitworth sizing ? NFI at all, *phew* wipes brow, thats none out of one...

Roll of cork gasket ? hmmmm no (that shit is up at the old mans place ) thats none out of two.....

Points file ? I think there is one buried in the bottom of an old tool box somewhere..... - 1 out of three

Magneto spanners ? not on your nellie, I have no wish to commence any relationship with Lord Lucas - The Prince Of Darkness. Thats one out of four so far...looking good .....

New fangled disc brakes a touch savage.......Hell Yeah !! Epic fail. Thats 2 out of five.....

I guess that makes me.................NOT OLD !!! YAY !!!!!!

now can someone fetch my pipe and fluffy slippers.........

Gosling1 wrote:[now can someone fetch my pipe and fluffy slippers.........

que someone witha copy of gos's slippers from the Oxley

Earlier in the year there was an article in AMCN about the Norton rotary racebikes and a return to racing with it in the BSB. I also remember something about the Norton factory being built over a section of the Donnington race track (Melb hairpin?).