Ron Wood Norton flat track racer
We can’t get enough of Ron Wood’s beautifully prepared flat track racers. Jamie Waters’ bike was featured in Sideburn #3; it’s one…
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Norton has been causing riders to drool for well over a century now. Launching in 1902 and winning the inaugural Isle of Mann TT race in 1907, the Norton serves as the other half of the iconic ‘Triton‘ (a Norton featherbed frame combined with a Triumph Bonneville engine).
The company’s Dominator and Commando models, in particular, are the stuff of design and pop culture legend. The Commando even made an appearance in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. After a brief restart for the brand in the early 2000s, new ownership has reintroduced these legendary roadsters with a new line built in Leicestershire.
A classy French Norton Wasp racer
I love this Norton Wasp because it has an understated, almost monochromatic beauty. It belongs to a member of the Coyote Racing…
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Matt Machine’s Norton Atlas bobber
The Norton Atlas tends to get overshadowed by the Commando, which superseded it in 1968. Which is somewhat unfortunate: the Atlas had…
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Chanel motorcycle
The fashion websites were buzzing yesterday with news of a Chanel shoot on Rue Royale in Paris: It’s apparently for the press…
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The ‘new’ Norton Commando 961 SE
Norton has revealed a few more details of the long-awaited Commando 961, and an image from a shoot held four months ago.…
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Norton 99 Dominator
When Laurent Tomas of the Coyote Racing Team bought this Norton five years ago, it was in a sorry state of repair.…
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Norton Ala’Verda 850
This delicately beautiful cafe racer uses a Laverda trellis frame and a late-production, modified Commando 850 engine. It was built by French…
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Norton Manx 30M
I’ve just had a lovely email from Marian Simms in New Zealand, the daughter of Australian racer John Simms. “He has more…
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