Wow what a cool bike is this gonna be another indian deal or are they gonna continue to manufacture these for awhile? sounds like they might be very limited in availability. The price must be high it loks awesome. hope they do good its nice to see the old commando lok again. PEACE
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A beautiful bike for sure, but there are too many failed Norton comeback attempts for me to get excited about this one. But I will keep my fingers crossed...
Gunslinger wrote:+1 on a great looking bike. I don't even want to know what the asking price is.
Norton's web site says, "pricing available mid 2009." I'd hate to be introducing an expensive, niche, luxury product in THIS economy. I suspect the new Indian is hitting the same wall. Outside of the Jay Leno/Billy Joel market, I wonder how many people are dropping 35 large on a bike these days.
I wonder how many of those Egli-Vincent and Norvin reproductions Hailwood Restorations sells? IMO, people buying those would be the natural market for these new Nortons.
They did do a limited production run of these back in 2006 if memory serves. I can remember getting all over excited about them on this very board. While I may be married to Hondas I would love a Norton as a mistress...
The pricing strategy back then was roughly equivilant to a top end sportsbike.