From Davmomoto: 1955 Norton Dominator Meets 1974 Kawasaki S3 Mach II… Yes, you can believe your eyes. What you see before you is a 1955 Norton Dominator with a featherbed frame mated to a 1974 […]
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The Onyx: Norton-Harley “Norley”
Cédric Camiade’s Harley-powered Featherbed… When Norton introduced the featherbed frame in 1950, it quickly earned a reputation among circuit and street racers as the best handling chassis on the market. The design originated with brothers […]
235-bhp British Superbike, Reborn: Norton Nemesis V8
Allen Millyard restores the Norton Nemesis V8 for the National Motorcycle Museum… In 1998, at the Dorchester Hotel in London, Norton unveiled what was intended to be the world’s fastest production motorcycle, the 235-bhp […]
Norton Commando 850 Café Racer
A Franco-British Café Racer from FCR Original… French workshop FCR Original specializes in modern neo-retro bikes like the BMW R nineT, Triumph Bonneville, and Royal Enfield twins. So this latest build from the Chauvigny-based shop […]
THE Norton: Commando 750 “Domiracer”
Vintage Meets Modern: Rusty Motor’s Commando Café Racer… In 2014, Norton unveiled the Commando 916 Domiracer, a limited-edition special born from their new Donington factory and named for the Dominator-based race bikes of the 1960s: […]
NYC Trackmaster: Norton Street Tracker
A Commando-powered street tracker from NYC Norton… Kenny Cummings began restoring a 1974 Norton Commando in the mid-1990s, registering the domain nycnorton.com to document the project. He was visiting his father when he mentioned that […]
The One and Only: 1000cc Norvin by Millet Racing
Norton frame x Vincent engine = Norvin… In 1950, Norton introduced the now-legendary Featherbed frame, which quickly earned a reputation as the best handling chassis money could buy. Before long, intrepid builders had began to […]
Period Powerful: Commando 850 John Player Norton Tribute
Union Motorcycle Classics builds a tribute to Peter Williams and his John Player Nortons… In December 2020, the motorcycle world lost one of the greatest GP racer/designer/engineers of all time, Peter Williams. The son of […]
History at 100 MPH: 1951 Norton Manx
The Norton Manx (or Manx Norton) is one of the most successful British racing motorcycle in history. Developed to win the Isle of Man TT, the “Manx Gran Prix” model was originally a special racing […]
NorHD: Norton-Harley Café Racer
Twenty-year-old Makai Wink and family build a Harley-Norton Featherbed barn special! The legendary Norton Featherbed frame has its origins in Northern Ireland during WWII, where brothers Cromie and Rex McCandless developed a rear subframe for […]
