Nice one, good to see this manufacturer starting to compete and brink the Norton name back into the public imagination.

Best of luck to you all at Norton for the TT.

MMM I don't get it?? A new Norton?.. with a Spondon frame and a Aprilia engine. A Norton made tank and wheel spindles thats it?? Can the older lot help me are Spondon an old sparring buddy of Norton?? I know the rotary had a Spondon frame but it did have a Norton engine at least. Back in the day were the Manx Nortons Spondon framed?? I guess I need to do some reading up,but i could of made that if I had the money and Spondons phone number. I know I'm going to get an ear bashing but its like Honda making a new bike with a Kawasaki frame and a Suzuki engine.

I can't help thinking they could have put an ally tank on an Aprillia ART and acheived the same or better. This is a strange choice for the Norton company as it has no relevance to their current range. Maybe Norton are contemplating following the Bimota route and marketing a range of bikes with another suppliers engine? There must be an underlying reason for this odd departure from their current philosophy.

It's still OK if it's an Aprilia-engined Moto Guzzi racebike or an Aprilia-engined Gilera racebike, but an Aprilia-engined Norton racebike????WTH??Whatever happen to the much rumoured Norton's own V4 engine??

"The bike features a Spondon chassis with Ohlins suspension front and back, Brembo brakes and an Aprilia RSV4 engine."

what is British and what is Norton about this bike?

although I am pleased to see the Norton name back at the TT, I too am puzzled about the bike using an
Aprilia engine when they are supposed to be developing
a new in house V4,

Sad that we live in this marketing world nowadays: it doesn't matter where something is built or who built it in fact, as long as you have the all important BRAND on it! What's next? Norton branded SYM scooters anyone?

Norton returns to the Isle of Man TT


With someone else's bike.

Sorry, this is just sickening and disgraceful. For facks sake, whey even bother making the tank and spindle then?!? Apparently all they needed was the right decals.

'the hard edge style appeals to Norton far more than the energy drink and lycra clad world of homologated road bike racing'
I could take this quote seriously if it was a norton,to me the aprilia engine is exactly what Garner is criticising.