No fewer than 32 Nortons, representing every era in the history of the famous marque, were transported from the National Motorcycle Museum to this year’s Classic TT Festival.
Huge NMM effort brings Classic TT paddock alive
Everyone involved in the National Motorcycle Museum”s brilliant “Norton – The Rotary Years” parade lap poses with the machines that took part.
Visitors described the huge pop-up museum display as the best ever seen in a TT paddock, with a Norton racing machine to represent every decade from the 1900s to the 1990s.
As if that wasn’t enough, the museum excelled itself with a parade around the 37.73-mile TT circuit on Saturday, August 29 entitled, ‘Norton – The Rotary Years’, in which no fewer than 12 of its revolutionary machines took part.
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As a child Bertie (well, Robert back then… blame his sister for the nickname) was exposed to motorcycles thanks to his uncles. They would show up at his house with a lovely lady as pillion throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
After a naughty time on field bikes (it’s what we did back then) Bertie passed his test in the early 1990s and became a reporter for MCN in 1995, moving to the sports desk and covering World Superbikes in 1996.
With a change to Bike Magazine in 1997, he stayed until 2000 as news, features and road test editor. Moving into PR with Cosworth, Bert was bored with cars and returned to bikes in 2001 with Two Wheels Only, becoming editor in 2002 and leaving to be freelance at the end of 2004.
With almost a decade freelancing, Bertie joined Mortons in 2013 and became editor of Classic Motorcycle Mechanics, a post he’s desperately clung to, to this day. And no, he’s never had a pretty girl on the back of his bike.
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