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Post by mekon on Jan 30, 2020 12:54:17 GMT
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Post by Eddie The Bastard on Jan 30, 2020 19:24:13 GMT
You could say they did well to last this long.
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Post by elnoodle the reasonable on Feb 5, 2020 13:56:39 GMT
I haven't read a bike mag in years but it's guaranteed that the shelves of every WH Smiths in the country were absolutely dripping with MCN jizz.
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Post by mekon on Feb 5, 2020 15:09:54 GMT
Funny how triumph cracked the formulae but Norton seems to be about making as few bikes possible with as much wait and aggro for customers as possible.
Watched an interesting YouTube vid about Mclaren cars and they are also utter knobs. You can't even turn up to a showroom in a rival car, no matter how expensive.
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Post by Droog on Feb 5, 2020 15:20:40 GMT
It was set up to sponge cash from the government. Happens all the time. Especially where the Norton name is concerned. People were saying years ago this clown was a crook. In fact I'm pretty sure I even said it on an incarnation of one of our forums within the last 10 years.
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Post by elnoodle the reasonable on Feb 5, 2020 17:15:47 GMT
Totally out the loop on this so had a look at their website and it looks like they had a super expensive V4 and a couple of retro nostalgia type items.
How much were the V4s? There's one on autotrader for £50k. Hardly an austerity spesh.
The retro things looked like they had 60s engine casings and talked of featherbed frames. Who the fuck's that for? Most cunts that get moist about that shit are pishing into a bag and signing their houses over to dodgy care home operators.
Difficult to imagine a more successful revival than Triumph. The bikes were in the shops while the name was still relevant and they built modern machines that were different enough from what bigger Japanese rivals were producing to entice buyers. Once established, they went retro for the American market. And now look at them.
I can't see the point of resurrecting old British bike marques now. Triumph had money and a clever businessman behind them. I don't see anything like that happening again...
...unless John Bloor decides to buy the Norton name... 😉
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Post by mekon on Feb 7, 2020 10:06:39 GMT
Maybe MCN could buy out Norton. Imagine the headlines they'd be able to generate!
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Post by Diego the toe clipper on Feb 7, 2020 12:06:12 GMT
21st century business principles basically dictate that if China hasn't bought up (or tried to) your western legacy company, then it's totally unviable as an ongoing business proposition and you'd better quit while you can.
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Post by philthewindsurfer on Feb 7, 2020 12:35:37 GMT
I do like their internet security though.
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