{"id":1591,"date":"2011-02-18T16:26:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T16:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shaundejager.com\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2011-03-27T23:27:38","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T23:27:38","slug":"norton-lives-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shaundejager.com\/road-safety\/norton-lives-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Norton Lives Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelonelyrider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/norton01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"norton01\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thelonelyrider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/norton01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I recently had the privilege of attending the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kahunapowersports.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kahuna Powersports<\/a> launch  party for the return of the Norton. Norton motorcycles have  been around  since 1908 and are part of British pop culture. They have a  long  heritage and have caught the eye of many riders since before most  of us  were born. Unfortunately, Norton was another victim of economic   hardships and closed their doors in 1976. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelonelyrider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/961se.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thelonelyrider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/961se-300x216.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well\u2026the Norton lives again and are coming to Canada with the  Commando  961 SE. Now before you get your hopes up for getting the  Special Edition  model, you should know that there will be a very  limited supply of only  20 bikes\u202618 of which are already spoken for.  Ok\u2026grab some tissues  because there will be a few other models released  later this year. A  base model 961, the Cafe Racer and the Sport models  will all be  available by June of 2011. But you should act fast if you  are thinking  about getting one of these fine machines because once  again, supply will  be limited and demand will be high even though the  cost will be around  $20,000CDN (not including freight, PDI, taxes,  etc).<\/p>\n<p>The Commando 961SE shown above is a pretty sexy looking machine but   there will be some subtle changes once we see it on Canadian roads   thanks to the Federal certification process that all vehicles have to go   through before they are brought into the country in volume. One  obvious  change will be the front end, where the Canadian version of the  bike  will be sporting \u2018upside down forks\u2019 as opposed to the  traditional ones  shown in the picture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelonelyrider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/norton02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"norton02\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thelonelyrider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/norton02-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Norton paid a lot of attention to detail as they modernized their  bike  and although they held true to the aesthetic looks of the bikes  made in  the \u201970\u2032s, everything is completely modern and they didn\u2019t go  cheap on  their choice in parts. Brembro brakes, Ohlins suspension,  carbon fiber  fenders &amp; chain guard, and steel braided brake lines  are just to  name a few.<\/p>\n<p>So for all those Norton and cafe racer fans, get your finances in  order  and get into a dealership soon to place your order. If you\u2019re in   Ontario, go check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kahunapowersports.com\/%60\" target=\"_blank\">Kahuna Powersports<\/a> to place your deposit. These  bikes will move fast so if you want one, you had better act fast!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had the privilege of attending the Kahuna Powersports launch party for the return of the Norton. Norton motorcycles have been around since 1908 and are part of British pop culture. They have a long heritage and have caught the eye of many riders since before most of us were born. Unfortunately, Norton was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,38],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pedVzR-pF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shaundejager.com\/road-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shaundejager.com\/road-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shaundejager.com\/road-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaundejager.com\/road-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaundejager.com\/road-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaundejager.com\/road-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1606,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaundejager.com\/road-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions\/1606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shaundejager.com\/road-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaundejager.com\/road-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaundejager.com\/road-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}