My cheap lease comes up in March next year, so I'm thinking about what to do (obvs. I'm not going to pay the £12k residual). Now I love the bike but Norton just seem to have dumped them with no after sales support. I took mine into Silverstone Norton last week of an annual service and they really had no clue what they were doing, and as far as I can tell none of the techs even have a bike licence since the lonely sales guy had to take it for its test ride.
When it went in it had a problem with cutting out when warm which I asked them to look at. When they handed it back I asked what they'd done and they said they hadn't looked at that as they didn't know how to do it. It still does it which makes it almost unridable, it cut out today while I was turning right at a junction. There's no manuals apart from the home-made ones on Access Norton, and it sounds like they offloaded all the parts to KrazyHorse who then sold them all cheap. I'd like to get that fixed so I can at least get a few more miles on it, but they seem to have discontinued all their old dealers.
I'd say it could well be the case it's easier to keep an actual old Norton on the road than a 961!
When it went in it had a problem with cutting out when warm which I asked them to look at. When they handed it back I asked what they'd done and they said they hadn't looked at that as they didn't know how to do it. It still does it which makes it almost unridable, it cut out today while I was turning right at a junction. There's no manuals apart from the home-made ones on Access Norton, and it sounds like they offloaded all the parts to KrazyHorse who then sold them all cheap. I'd like to get that fixed so I can at least get a few more miles on it, but they seem to have discontinued all their old dealers.
I'd say it could well be the case it's easier to keep an actual old Norton on the road than a 961!
