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- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!quadsys!roland
- From: roland@quadsys.com (Roland Besserer)
- Subject: Re: Norton Plans
- Message-ID: <BxyDyM.1n9@quadsys.com>
- Organization: QUAD Systems
- References: <BxrwnA.C13@quadsys.com> <BxtK68.Ey0@fulcrum.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 07:54:21 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- In article <BxtK68.Ey0@fulcrum.co.uk> rct@fulcrum.co.uk (Richard Taylor) writes:
- >>
- >>Does anyone know what Norton's current status is? I thought they were supposed
- >>to release a street version of their successful rotary racer.
- >>
- >
- >The (sporty) Norton F1 has been available for about 2 - 3 years, and was
- >updated about a year ago. A third version has been shown in the UK national
- >bike rag, Mototrcycle News, and may (?) be unveiled this December at the UK
- >Bike Show, for sale next year.
- >The current version is around 8,500 pounds, and is not particularly fast or
- >light. Approximately 140 mph top speed. I've only ever seen one of these in
- >public, at a race meeting. Very rare indeed.
- >
-
- I know that the original rotary sprt bike had a number of severe shortcomings
- that significantly decreased it power output. The 1993 model is supposed
- to fix all that. If the price stays below 10,000 pounds I'd consider one.
-
- I get all the British bike rags but it's been real quite around Norton
- lately and I was wondering if the went belly up again.
-
- >Norton as a company are financially unsound, and have been hanging on by the
- >skin of their teeth for the last two years. It ins't clear that they will
- >survive the current recession.
-
- That's my primary concern. No telling how long they'll be around. I had
- great hopes a couple of years back, but unlike Triumph they seem to have
- a real hard time.
- --
-
- Roland Besserer
- QUAD Systems
- roland@quadsys.com
-