Sunburst: NYC Norton’s dazzling 1972 Norton Commando
If you live on the east coast of the USA and you need work doing on your Norton Commando, there’s only one…
Read more »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.
If you live on the east coast of the USA and you need work doing on your Norton Commando, there’s only one…
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Read more »The Handbuilt Motorcycle show rocked Austin, Texas earlier this month. As the name implies, the show was filled to the brim with…
Read more »The term ‘café racer’ has become so abused, it’s lost virtually all meaning. (Okay, we’re occasionally guilty too.) So let’s go back…
Read more »There’s a new name to look out for on the custom scene: Federal Moto. It’s a startup workshop from Canada, and this…
Read more »The idea was simple: take the best engine and the best frame of the time, and combine them. In the 60s, that…
Read more »Every manufacturer has a skeleton in its closet, and in Norton’s case, it’s the Hi-Rider. Arguably the first factory-produced custom, it looked…
Read more »Think of a Triton, and you probably imagine a sleek, silver-and-black special from the 1960s. A product of its time, infused with…
Read more »We get quite a few Tritons sent in to Bike EXIF—maybe one every couple of weeks. I’m a big fan of the…
Read more »We first happened across this amazing Norton Commando eight months ago. It’s now gracing the pages of Tank Moto, a super-stylish magazine…
Read more »Kuala Lumpur, capital of Malaysia, is not where you’d expect to find a 1960s-style cafe racer. But this Sportster-powered machine would look…
Read more »At 84 years old, this Norton CS1 is the oldest motorcycle still being raced in the UK on a regular basis. It…
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