In Britain, One’s Past Can Beckon The Future.

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While Triumph is busy releasing their new 2016 modern-classic line, Norton is working on a V4 Superbike.
Triumph is assimilating their classic livery to modern standards, and that includes liquid-cooling. Though the fins on the heads and cylinders do still provide cooling. There are 3 new Bonnies and 2 versions of the Thruxton. The R getting additional braking and suspension upgrades to let you know that it means business. Triumph has added ABS and traction control as well, getting creative with how they pieced the bikes together and drawing design cues from vintage cafe racers.

So, as one olde British marque revives the glory of it’s past, another forges ahead towards the future with a 1200cc beast that it hopes to unleash on the like of Ducati’s1299 Panigale.

Norton plans on a single-sided swing arm, LED lighting, underslung exhaust, carbon wheels, and carbon wheels. It will also be fitted, as the current trend goes, with ABS and TCS. Norton will continue to make air/oil cooled bikes – a trend that even BMW is shunning as of late – based on the 961cc in the Commando.