• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Norton Motorcycles are back.

Were they not trying to build them in Oregon or something a few years ago? I tried following them for a while, but they didn't seem to be producing any bikes. Glad to see they're back, again.

If I wasn't so into dirt bikes I would love to have one. I'd take one over a Harley any day.
 
Now if only someone would bring back the Vincent I could finally have a modern rendition of a NorVin.
 
Nice to see they are finally back in business again. The Nortons were a cut above the rest of the Brits. I had a new 850 in 74 and it was withouit a doubt the most fun road bike I've ever owned. Last year I came very close to trading my 08 610 towards a immaculate 73 850 Roadster. Then I finally realized it would be another buike I would polish alot and not ride much.
The parts supply for the old models is so good that new/old bikes are being sold. Many of the parts are moded and actually better than original. There is quite a following.
 
"The usual formula for classic rebirths, old school styling with modern components." Perhaps but perhaps the formula goes like sell stock stock goes to zero.

I have a pretty good pile of 1975 Norton stuff, I did sell the bike I had registered back to the guy I bought it from 9 years later. This version has a bigger bore than stroke unlike my stuff. They did real good making the right side look like the classic one. One of the best things about the Norton stuff I have is that it says in the manual (workshop I believe) pretty much this is designed to be re built by an owner for a very long time. At lest something kind of close to that. I don't know how the trademark stuff legally goes it is my impression they sold off the rights to make spare parts and they have always had the origional logo though I don't think I have bought any spare parts lately.

A for that rotary, someone actually had a norton rotary at a norton owners of america meet like 20 years ago. It had problems with emission regulations and the AMA didn't compute the displacement the way the advertising departmend did and that kind of messed with their racing hopes.

Price: £13,250
Price shown includes the 'On the Road' costs and VAT for the UK. So what does that mean if you back out the VAT and "on the road costs"?
 
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