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 their racing motorcycles that incorporated a swingarm
The Norton Atlas was released in 1962 as the replacement for the venerable Norton Dominator. British motorcycle manufacturers were all targeting the colossal American market, typically by appealing to their love of power and speed.
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 their racing motorcycles that incorporated a swingarm
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Two years ago Erik Christensen sent in some pics of his build, a 1974 BMW R90/6 he built up in Alaska. Erik uses his completed motorcycle builds as props for family photo shoots. It’s a great way of his whole family involved. The Norton itself has 9,000 original miles and has spent it’s last 20 years in ...
The Norton Atlas was released in 1962 as the replacement for the venerable Norton Dominator. British motorcycle manufacturers were all targeting the colossal American market, typically by appealing to their love of power and speed.
I never get tired of looking at these… Those oil lines and rearsets are works of art.
Rocketgarage Magazine, Engine Fuel & Passion since 2007. cafe racer, scrambler, bobber, flat track, motorcycle, lifestyle, endurance, restomod
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 their racing motorcycles that incorporated a swingarm
At first glance, the tank shape suggests that this is a classic Norton Commando, but the upright engine reveals the truth: this is a very well put-together Norton Atlas café racer. When building th…
Rocketgarage Magazine, Engine Fuel & Passion since 2007. cafe racer, scrambler, bobber, flat track, motorcycle, lifestyle, endurance, restomod
The Norton Atlas was released in 1962 as the replacement for the venerable Norton Dominator. British motorcycle manufacturers were all targeting the colossal American market, typically by appealing to their love of power and speed.
There’s a new name to look out for on the custom scene: Federal Moto. It’s a startup workshop from Canada, and this remarkable Norton 850 Commando resto-mod is the company’s first build. The guys behind Federal are friends Shaun Brandt, Randy Venhuis, and Justin Benson. Their purpose is simple: create one-of-a-kind custom motorcycles, with functional riding gear to follow. For their first bike build, the guys wanted to push the envelope of Western Canadian motorcycle culture. “Seventies Japanese bikes are a dime-a-dozen in farmers’ fields across BC, Alberta and Saskatchewan,” says Brandt. “British bikes are much tougher to come by,
Rocketgarage Magazine, Engine Fuel & Passion since 2007. cafe racer, scrambler, bobber, flat track, motorcycle, lifestyle, endurance, restomod
Rocketgarage Magazine, Engine Fuel & Passion since 2007. cafe racer, scrambler, bobber, flat track, motorcycle, lifestyle, endurance, restomod
We've showcased a fair number of Tritons before—and even a Norley—but this is the first time we've laid eyes on a 'Burton.' And it's magnificent. 'Ed's Burton' belongs to London-based Edward Jonkler, and it's the most unorthodox Norton cafe racer we've seen yet. It's not powered by a Triumph or even a Harley Sportster engine—but one from a Buell X1. And a sorted X1 at that—the donor Buell had already been tuned, and kitted with a number of performance parts. “It was a complete riot to ride,” says Ed. “I was literally laughing every time I was on it!” First
The Norton Commando is a motorcycle that probably shouldn't have been as successful as it was. It was released in 1968 using a parallel
The Norton Atlas was released in 1962 as the replacement for the venerable Norton Dominator. British motorcycle manufacturers were all targeting the colossal American market, typically by appealing to their love of power and speed.
Rocketgarage Magazine, Engine Fuel & Passion since 2007. cafe racer, scrambler, bobber, flat track, motorcycle, lifestyle, endurance, restomod
Rocketgarage Magazine, Engine Fuel & Passion since 2007. cafe racer, scrambler, bobber, flat track, motorcycle, lifestyle, endurance, restomod
The Norton Cafe Racer EARLY NORTON CAFE RACER The Norton Manx, the BSA Gold Star and other big singles like them really paved the way, and laid the groundwork for Cafe Racers prior to World War II. After the war, a plethora of new bikes, including fast new vertical twins from Triumph, BSA, Norton, and the rest, attracted adventurous veterans home from the war, and rowdy young upstarts who began street racing. That’s what we call it today, but back […]
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We've showcased a fair number of Tritons before—and even a Norley—but this is the first time we've laid eyes on a 'Burton.' And it's magnificent. 'Ed's Burton' belongs to London-based Edward Jonkler, and it's the most unorthodox Norton cafe racer we've seen yet. It's not powered by a Triumph or even a Harley Sportster engine—but one from a Buell X1. And a sorted X1 at that—the donor Buell had already been tuned, and kitted with a number of performance parts. “It was a complete riot to ride,” says Ed. “I was literally laughing every time I was on it!” First
what started as a few simple changes to an already solid platform, soon escalated into this stunning custom racer.
It's not often a well known custom builder sends me photos of his living room, but seeing as these particular photos included Kim Boyles jaw dropping 1971
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Norton is famed for its featherbed frames, which carried the Manx single to spectacular racing victories in the 1950s. But in the 1960s, Norton wanted to establish its Dominator twin as a race machine. The newer bike was outclassed by the Manx, so engineer Doug Hele created a new frame for the “Domiracer” project. This “lowboy” frame was even lighter than the featherbed, and helped the Domiracer tip the scales at 35 lb (16 kg) less than a Manx. But the project died when the Bracebridge Street race shop closed in 1962. Doug Hele left Norton for Triumph, and it
