Norton Motorcycles - Bust

Discussion in 'Taylor's Tittle-Tattle - General Banter' started by Clive_ofthe_Kremlin, Jan 30, 2020.

  1. Clive_ofthe_Kremlin

    Clive_ofthe_Kremlin Squad Player

    Didn't even know they were still going to be honest, but delighted to hear that another manufacturer of these noisy and dangerous death machines has gone to the wall.

    The sooner they're banned from the streets altogether, the better.
     
  2. hornetgags

    hornetgags McMuff's lovechild

    Shut up moron.

    Rejoicing in people losing their livelihoods is pretty disgusting.

    As a bike rider myself, you'll find it's crappy car drivers who lack awareness are biggest cause of bike accidents.
     
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  3. Diamond

    Diamond First Team

    [QUOTE="hornetgags]
    As a bike rider myself, you'll find it's crappy car drivers who lack awareness are biggest cause of bike accidents.[/QUOTE]

    Driving through Harefield last week I witnessed a tw*t on a bike with 2 passengers on the back, no helmets, dodging in and out of traffic, going the wrong way over the roundabout and generally living bl**dy dangerously. I fully expected to see them lying in a ditch further up the road.

    Was that you?
     
  4. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

    Explosion of powered scooters imminent...
     
  5. hornetgags

    hornetgags McMuff's lovechild

    Driving through Harefield last week I witnessed a tw*t on a bike with 2 passengers on the back, no helmets, dodging in and out of traffic, going the wrong way over the roundabout and generally living bl**dy dangerously. I fully expected to see them lying in a ditch further up the road.

    Was that you?[/QUOTE]

    Nope. I've done my time riding in the wet, snow and ice...it isn't fun and when you have cars tailgating you because you're riding defensively...it becomes more dangerous. Just riding down a street at 20mph, a van just pulled out on me, I glanced the side of it and dislocated my shoulder keeping the bike upright. Luckily there were no parked cars or I'd gone through a windscreen.

    So only in Spring and Summer for me and I cruise...not interested in going Mach 2.
     
  6. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    Yeah, but people are ****s in cars everyday of the week on every road. Not sure what your anecdote tells us about bikes. That t*at would be reckless on a motorbike, in a car or on a pushbike.
     
  7. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    Motorbikes are fun, but I wouldn’t ride one nowadays. I think the roads are simply too crowded and bike riders too vulnerable. Not fair, but no one gets to stop the motor car.
     
  8. Robert Peel

    Robert Peel Squad Player

    Those absolutely boil my pis*. Pathetic overgrown toddlers trying to be cool.

    Are they illegal to use on roads? The Bible basher over the road has one and I'd love to shop him.
     
  9. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    Here in Shoreditch they are de rigueur. Every hipster *****, too lazy to walk 400 yards from Old Street or Liverpool Street station to their converted warehouse office powers along on them.

    No wonder we have an obesity crisis when people are avoiding even the tiny bit of moderate exercise they might have in their life.
     
  10. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

    Yeah I think so.
     
  11. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

  12. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    Yep roads or pavements. Private land only
     
  13. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    Much as I hate them, legalisation should allow legislation, which is a good thing

    IMO any powered vehicle should require registration and insurance to be used on the roads and anything with less than 3 wheels require a helmet to be worn. So that included the inaccurately titled hover boards and Segweys as well.
    Powered vehicles should not be allowed on the pavement unless they are bona fide mobility scooters.

    We've had one death and countless incidents already.
     
  14. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

    In my experience the users of these zip on and off roads and pavements as they see fit, taking the shortest route to where they want to go. Personally, I would be happy for them to take their chances on the roads when it becomes legal if they stay off the pavements, but the problem will be the same as for cyclists I assume: they will not be licensed.
     
  15. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    Carry a pocket full of pea shingle around with you. Very useful if thrown infront of one of these hipstermobiles.
     
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  16. Robert Peel

    Robert Peel Squad Player

    I've just shopped him via the Crimestoppers website.

    Where's his god now?
     
  17. fewer.
     
  18. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    I do it on purpose to annoy.

    Maybe I'll do it less times in the future.
     
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  20. hornetgags

    hornetgags McMuff's lovechild

  21. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

  22. Nortons were always horrible leaky things - faced with competition from smooth Japanese four cylinder bikes, with typical British club-hammer and gaffer tape engineering ingenuity, rather than build a better engine than the jack-hammer vibrating nightmare they had, they put in wobbly rubber engine mounts and pneumatic handlebar grips. That iteration of Norton (which merged with Villiers and Triumph in a British Leylandesque attempt to save the industry) rightly went to the wall. There was another ill-fated attempt to revive the marque, and then this Stuart "Bassini" Garner comes in with another rescue. It has as much to do with the old Norton as Mini has with Morris, which was probably a good thing, but the history of boutique motorcycle makers trying to sell £30k bikes is littered with failures; it was probably a scam all along.
     
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  23. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

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  24. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Let's see if he's prosecuted. If not, that could be the proof he's been looking for all his life....
     
  25. Robert Peel

    Robert Peel Squad Player

    I want him taken away in handcuffs. Anyone who rides one of these pathetic, lazy, attention-seekermobiles deserves a spell at her Majesty's pleasure.
     
  26. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    Does he vape (I hate that word) as well? If so, ship him off to Guantanamo.
     
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  27. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    Didn't they get a multi-million pound 'loan' from the Bank of Taxpayer a few years back?

    EDIT: Yup (form the grandian article - Cable's quote is particularly telling):
     
  28. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

    I think you've got your sights too low. You want anti-terrorist armed police abseiling through his upstairs windows in the middle of the night or he's basically getting away with it.
     
  29. Timbers

    Timbers Apeman

    My dad has a lovely Triton in his collection, where he combined the best of both worlds, a triumph engine, with Norton frame. Lovely bike, but he won't ride any of them on the road now or his off road ones. Managed to convince him to slowly sell all of his bikes as just sitting their wasted, his Steve McQueen inspired Matisse is amazing. That's staying! The amount of Villiers engine parts we sold last year for scrap was amazing, silly how much the scrap value is as much as what they would be worth to fix, sort and then sell.
     
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