Quote: ...this is the first bike that I have actually been excited to see revealed in the last decade.
In my case Jerry, it's actually the second bike I've been excited about its reveal in the last decade. The first ones were the new Norton 961s that Brit Stuart Garner took over from Oregonian Kenny Dreer some years back. I love the look the new engine, and the whole bike for that matter.
However, and unfortunately, I have a feeling that just like the ill-fated Gilroy Indian venture and just as Kenny Dreer's Norton venture proved(and as has been mentioned a number of times in this thread already), these sorts of "resurrections" of old motorcycle marques need very deep pockets in order to succeed, and I don't think Stuart Garner is close to being in the same league financially as is John Bloor, let alone Polaris Industries.
And thus I give little hope for Norton's resurrection to succeed, and especially as it appears that Garner's venture has been dragging its feet for some time now over there in Ol' Blighty.
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
