You clearly have a lot of knowledge and feel for how to treat an engine the proper way, I want to compliment you for that. Also the fact that you obviously put a lot of time, effort and love in a project like that is wonderful. You created a stunningly beautiful café racer with a sublime running engine, fantastic job. 👍🏼 Great detail; I love how the rear fender wiggles when you turn the throttle, it’s like s dog wagging his tail because he’s so happy to take a walk…… 😃 Great job, well done, nice video, thanks for sharing!
@@AlanTatham-e6w English is not my native language and I’m not specialized in English motorcycles so I think I did a pretty good job telling the person what I thought and I’m sure he understood me. I made a nice and positive comment and this is what I get from you? Be ashamed of yourself! So why don’t you just swim back to your dumb island before we let it drift away. Nobody likes a know-it-all-better, didn’t you KNOW that? you’re a remarkably disrespectful and narrow minded person. I guess I used all the right words now because I’m pretty sure you understand exactly what I mean!
That thing is cool. And you could tell by the way he went methodically through the kickstart procedure that young dude knows every nut and bolt on that thing.
Bonjour, Si cest vous qui l'avez restaurée, bravo, c'est une merveille. Merci de partager votre passion avec nous, jeune motard, le bruit du moteur et son démarrage sont incroyables.
Thanks! It's my friend's bike. He has collected some cool cafe racer parts on the bike and made it look like this. I serviced the engine and put the whole bike in driving condition.
Absolutely brilliant! Well done, young man, and thanks for the clip! My first motorcycle was a 1959 BSA Winged Wheel, so I go back a long way! Nothing like two wheels- just keep the shiny side up and the greasy side down - mind you, that machine will probably never even have a greasy side. Keep it as it is! I am an eighty-one year young South African biker-boy.
Lovely to see another Norvin, I've been fortunate to have seen two in the flesh, both in the UK. As a teenager (19) I was having a drink outside at the Sportsman’s Arms on the A45 and watched a guy park up a white bike and on closer inspection and a chat with the man, got told it was a Vincent 'White Shadow' . Like this bike, just stunning. Thank you for sharing.
@@brianjones4026 If my maths serves me right, that would be 1972. Across the road was Windmill Farm which is now a Pub, restaurant and a golf course. I used to live next door, a couple of fields down lol. Happy days 😄.
Stunningly beautiful motorcycle. It would have been like the purest cafe racer in its day. And you have an excellent starting technique. I have a kickstart-only 500 single and you need to treat it right for a first-time start like that. All the best from Switzerland, Rob
Now that is a proper "Cafe Racer", a beast to look at, to start and stop but so very much better than these weird contraptions we get shown on here! Not too bad to ride, Featherbed frame and Roadholder forks I've covered many dramatic miles with the biggest grin on my chops on my Norvin back in 1967-71.
What a beautiful bike! And whoever set it up, really knows what they are doing - great crisp throttle response and steady, reliable idle. Just lovely....
Lovely bike, beautiful sound too. Back in the 60’s a friend built a Vincent 1000 drag bike and we drew lots over who should kick start it as neither of us wanted to get a sprained ankle!!
'A thing of beauty is a joy forever.' The aesthetics are a large part of what attracted me as a teenager...and the sound of that fantastic push rod V - twin engine. Unmistakable, and what makes a real motorcycle for me. I know they have characteristics that don't suit the modern rider - people lack patience these days - from the last war until the early seventies are the eras I favour. Thank you for this post.
Would have fitted in perfectly outside the "ACE CAFE" the original cafe home to racers back in the 50'S & 60's I remember it well, up the North Circular round the roundabout & back!
Lucky fella. It’b nice to know more about its acquisition. Awesome machine. Probably the finest cafe racer combo ever created , apart from a slimline Triton Bonnie 650 which I built in 1972 using John Tickle upgrades and Borrani /K81 wheels.
in my day we built "Tritons" for road racing. A 69 Bonneville 120 (lighter crank year) built up with bigger valves, stronger valve springs, a #6 grind cam, polished & balanced con rods, 10.5:1 pistons, aluminum rockers, Dunstall push rods, Dellorto carbs with short velocity stacks between the carbs and head which in turn was ported and polished then the whole crank case polished to facilitate the oil running down to the scavenge screen faster. All this mated to a NORTON "featherbed" frame with double frame over engine and down tubes and engine cradle. We would spend hours refabbing the front ends with reversed leg Ciarriani forks with twin disc brakes and different size bleed ports to control nose dive on extreme braking. Lucas Competition Magnetos .... Avon Trigonex tires .........oh dear; just trying to remember all of the goodies we did to those wonderful machines is give me at 79 a brain burn. Back then Harewood race track owned by Shell oil was still available in Ontario Canada and e would book time and have our own little set to under the guise of testing our kit. Then the Triumph Trident 750 triples and Hoda 750 4's came out and right off the showroom floor they were running us down and we found ourselves looking at their rear ends more than we liked. Those dang Hondas would go like scat and do it over and over again with minimal wrenching while keeping all the Brit bits heading in the same direction was challenging. Wonderful times indeed.
Many years ago (early 1980s) I very nearly bought a Norvin !.. Believe it or not it was on sale at a local country garage near me for MONTHS and was for no money really, they'd wheel it out of the workshop every morning and wheel it back in every night, it was on display to passers-by every day but they just couldn't sell it.. I'd see it every time I went to fill up and one day I decided to ask about it. They started it (it sounded almost identical this one, but it had an open mega exhaust) I even took a test ride, that beast pulled like a train and sounded like a WW2 fighter plane, but like a fool I decided I didn't like the riding position and decided against buying it. It took another three months or so but eventually they did sell it.. I still kick myself to this day !..
@@TheOTvideos No it really wasn't expensive, even going by price levels of the time ! (which makes me kick myself even harder..) I don't remember the exact figure but I do remember thinking it was very reasonable.. and it was peanuts compared to today's Norvin values ! Ironically, maybe it was that which was putting buyers off ?.. Who knows, maybe they thought there was something wrong with the bike ?.. There really wasn't though, I could tell when I rode it that it was well set up and looked after. the only thing I didn't like about it (other than the riding position of course..) was the 'long-circuit' Manx Norton type tank (I prefer the look of the smaller 'short circuit' type.) but that could easily have been rectified !.. At least I can say I've ridden a Norvin, even if it was only for a few miles !
A Norton frame and Vincent engine, a stunning marriage of the two motorcycle's... I love it
Beauty bike!
The first time I've seen a Norvin. What a beautiful bike.
It's a snortin Norton
Sorry my mistake I never heard of that brand motorcycle before
@@pd8206Vincent engine in the Norton frame?
Ask Ogri from Bike magazine!
Egli-Vincent are nicest !!! 👌👌👌
Great to see a young dude interested in classic bikes instead of his mobile phone
Must be a young , rich dude !
This is true 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Wonderful! that bike would have been a king of cafe racers back in the 60s, the envy of every rocker.
Also the 2020's
You clearly have a lot of knowledge and feel for how to treat an engine the proper way, I want to compliment you for that.
Also the fact that you obviously put a lot of time, effort and love in a project like that is wonderful.
You created a stunningly beautiful café racer with a sublime running engine, fantastic job. 👍🏼
Great detail; I love how the rear fender wiggles when you turn the throttle, it’s like s dog wagging his tail because he’s so happy to take a walk…… 😃
Great job, well done, nice video, thanks for sharing!
@@Capt.PitbullDad Thanks!!😊
The English Nortons and Vincents did not have fenders, they had mudguards, please use the English term when talking about English motorcycles
@@AlanTatham-e6w
English is not my native language and I’m not specialized in English motorcycles so I think I did a pretty good job telling the person what I thought and I’m sure he understood me.
I made a nice and positive comment and this is what I get from you? Be ashamed of yourself!
So why don’t you just swim back to your dumb island before we let it drift away.
Nobody likes a know-it-all-better, didn’t you KNOW that?
you’re a remarkably disrespectful and narrow minded person.
I guess I used all the right words now because I’m pretty sure you understand exactly what I mean!
@@AlanTatham-e6w That must have hurt so much...
That thing is cool. And you could tell by the way he went methodically through the kickstart procedure that young dude knows every nut and bolt on that thing.
I was thinking the very same.
Yes great starting technique 👏
What a great sounding bike. Lovely kickstarting.
Bonjour,
Si cest vous qui l'avez restaurée, bravo, c'est une merveille.
Merci de partager votre passion avec nous, jeune motard, le bruit du moteur et son démarrage sont incroyables.
Thanks! It's my friend's bike. He has collected some cool cafe racer parts on the bike and made it look like this. I serviced the engine and put the whole bike in driving condition.
Lovely bike , Norton frame , Vincent engine 👌 sweet 😋
Used to like the Tritons in my day .❤
I'm 61 years old and I still have my 71 Honda CL350 Cafe. Beautiful bike man.
Absolutely brilliant! Well done, young man, and thanks for the clip! My first motorcycle was a 1959 BSA Winged Wheel, so I go back a long way! Nothing like two wheels- just keep the shiny side up and the greasy side down - mind you, that machine will probably never even have a greasy side. Keep it as it is! I am an eighty-one year young South African biker-boy.
Such a brilliant combination, Norton featherbed frame and a shiny Rapide engine! Stunning. Need one in my Garage now! 👌
Perfect Bike, Perfect Sound, Perfect Start and for sure a Gentlemen, because off moving out of the picture to get better view on this beautiful Bike 👍
@@marcusmitschka3290 Thanks!😊
It wags its tail when you blip the throttle! It's so happy!!
Love the throaty sound, drop dead beautiful bike. Enjoyed this vid enormously, thank you.
Lovely bike with a great sound!
Great sound... Is it a joke ? 🤣W
Absolutely brilliant ! The guy certainly knows his stuff with this wonderful machine....
I want one. Nicest bike I have seen for a while.
Beautiful machine, love the deep throaty gurgle of the engine
Lovely to see another Norvin, I've been fortunate to have seen two in the flesh, both in the UK.
As a teenager (19) I was having a drink outside at the Sportsman’s Arms on the A45 and watched
a guy park up a white bike and on closer inspection and a chat with the man, got told it was a
Vincent 'White Shadow' . Like this bike, just stunning.
Thank you for sharing.
well well i know well this legendary drinking hole ! what year would that have been !!
@@brianjones4026 If my maths serves me right, that would be 1972.
Across the road was Windmill Farm which is now a Pub, restaurant and a golf course.
I used to live next door, a couple of fields down lol. Happy days 😄.
That start up routine looks like a dark art.
Bike sounds fantastic!
Ogri’s bike!
Beat me to it.
So loved Ogri . His Girlfriend was gorgeous. Mitzi ??
Stunningly beautiful motorcycle. It would have been like the purest cafe racer in its day. And you have an excellent starting technique. I have a kickstart-only 500 single and you need to treat it right for a first-time start like that. All the best from Switzerland, Rob
Awesome start up procedure. Well done.
1st one I’ve ever seen! Love it! I have ridden a couple of different Nortons belonging to a friend of mine. Nice machine!
これは美しい。走る芸術品です。素敵なサウンドです。
Now that is a proper "Cafe Racer", a beast to look at, to start and stop but so very much better than these weird contraptions we get shown on here! Not too bad to ride, Featherbed frame and Roadholder forks I've covered many dramatic miles with the biggest grin on my chops on my Norvin back in 1967-71.
What a bike! Fantastic.
What a beauty, Cafe racer! 🥰👍
What a beautiful bike! And whoever set it up, really knows what they are doing - great crisp throttle response and steady, reliable idle. Just lovely....
What a beautiful motorcycle !!!😮
That legend of a motorcycle..... is the motorcycle.... all retro motorcycles want to be!
Was für ein extrem schönes Motorrad! LG von einem alten Motorradfahrer aus Linz an der Donau-Österreich/Austria!🇦🇹😎👍💪🍀🐺
Absolutly stunning.
Just the sound brings back memories of "back in the day".
That's ogris bike put a star on the seat.
Thankyou!
Oh my gosh!!! That is absolutely the coolest bike I've ever seen! The sound is awesome, and the looks......nothing better.
Absolutely beautiful!!
Nortonのフレームにヴィンセントのエンジンでしょうか センスが素敵です！
Utterly beautiful what a credit to all involved. Magnificent.
Работа двигателя, просто потрясающая. 👍
What a beautiful bike , never heard of them
NORton frame
VINcent engine
Looks great sounds great,enjoy it my man you got something special there.
@@paulkielty3800 Thanks!! This is my friend's bike that I built for him, but maybe I will build a similar one for myself in the future🤔😉
Lovely bike, beautiful sound too. Back in the 60’s a friend built a Vincent 1000 drag bike and we drew lots over who should kick start it as neither of us wanted to get a sprained ankle!!
'A thing of beauty is a joy forever.' The aesthetics are a large part of what attracted me as a teenager...and the sound of that fantastic push rod V - twin engine. Unmistakable, and what makes a real motorcycle for me. I know they have characteristics that don't suit the modern rider - people lack patience these days - from the last war until the early seventies are the eras I favour. Thank you for this post.
Very nice to see what could have been, finally together.
Nice bike and sounds good too.
Beautiful bike, great sound!👍
It just sounds so crisp, and its road stance is just perfect. If I were a biker I'd want one!
Norvin and Triton my two favourite bikes of all time.
Should be called a Vinton !!
@@stephenbutler3333 I don't mind what it's called it's still probably the best looking bike ever built.
It's beautiful, but google Egli Vincent.
North Wind ?
Love the sound of that bike it's magnificent!
Bravo young man that is one hell of a machine.
Just bought a pretty tired Egli but have ridden it a few miles - man do they go!! Absolutely wild. Enjoy
Would have fitted in perfectly outside the "ACE CAFE" the original cafe home to racers back in the 50'S & 60's I remember it well, up the North Circular round the roundabout & back!
Such a SWEET ride!! Thanks for Sharing!!!
รถสวยมาก
Bloody dream machine and as you know how to start it so well, I guess you deserve to ride it...but you are one lucky SOB my friend. 😛
The sound off that and morre is fantastic
Lucky fella. It’b nice to know more about its acquisition. Awesome machine. Probably the finest cafe racer combo ever created , apart from a slimline Triton Bonnie 650 which I built in 1972 using John Tickle upgrades and Borrani /K81 wheels.
That is just a beautiful looking bike, as an x Triton owner I think you’ve done everything spot on.
That truly is a lovely thing. That young man knows it very well indeed. First kick. Lovely.
in my day we built "Tritons" for road racing. A 69 Bonneville 120 (lighter crank year) built up with bigger valves, stronger valve springs, a #6 grind cam, polished & balanced con rods, 10.5:1 pistons, aluminum rockers, Dunstall push rods, Dellorto carbs with short velocity stacks between the carbs and head which in turn was ported and polished then the whole crank case polished to facilitate the oil running down to the scavenge screen faster. All this mated to a NORTON "featherbed" frame with double frame over engine and down tubes and engine cradle. We would spend hours refabbing the front ends with reversed leg Ciarriani forks with twin disc brakes and different size bleed ports to control nose dive on extreme braking. Lucas Competition Magnetos .... Avon Trigonex tires .........oh dear; just trying to remember all of the goodies we did to those wonderful machines is give me at 79 a brain burn. Back then Harewood race track owned by Shell oil was still available in Ontario Canada and e would book time and have our own little set to under the guise of testing our kit. Then the Triumph Trident 750 triples and Hoda 750 4's came out and right off the showroom floor they were running us down and we found ourselves looking at their rear ends more than we liked. Those dang Hondas would go like scat and do it over and over again with minimal wrenching while keeping all the Brit bits heading in the same direction was challenging. Wonderful times indeed.
Superbe Moto !! trés belle réalisation . cordialy to France !
I've been drooling over Vincents since the late sixties, seen about a half a dozen here in the US, never got to ride one.
Fantastic piece of machinery.
Extra 👍for the one kick start.
Gorgeous !! this makes you want to be a biker
Tolle Maschine! Allein der Sound ist der Hammer! 😎👍
Beautifull, simply lovely. Thank you for shearing👍👏🇳🇱
A fabulous, of me until now, unknown retro MC and a nice performance of the guy
Wow! . That’s beautiful!
I'd be mad if I was your neighbor, and you didn't wake me up before you started that awesome bike!
V2エンジンのNorton初めて見ました美しい✨
1970のNortonなら乗ったこと有りますよ😃
ah, lovely. in fact, too lovely! i'm glad i have an old sporty; something that i'm not too worried about dropping.
Lucky kid . What a pleasure it must be to ride that thing on a two lane hwy, late at night with no other traffic around.
Runs and sounds great 👍
A very careful starting procedure 😁. I had a Gold Star that often tried to break my ankle 😂
I never heard of Norvin. Looks and sounds cool
Many years ago (early 1980s) I very nearly bought a Norvin !.. Believe it or not it was on sale at a local country garage near me for MONTHS and was for no money really, they'd wheel it out of the workshop every morning and wheel it back in every night, it was on display to passers-by every day but they just couldn't sell it.. I'd see it every time I went to fill up and one day I decided to ask about it. They started it (it sounded almost identical this one, but it had an open mega exhaust) I even took a test ride, that beast pulled like a train and sounded like a WW2 fighter plane, but like a fool I decided I didn't like the riding position and decided against buying it. It took another three months or so but eventually they did sell it.. I still kick myself to this day !..
@@jjrider6758 I understand that it annoys you, and maybe that bike wasn't even that expensive back then?😩😩
I think a lot of us missed the chance to buy a beautiful bike, because of less money, family , house or other reasons.
And we all regret !
@@TheOTvideos No it really wasn't expensive, even going by price levels of the time ! (which makes me kick myself even harder..) I don't remember the exact figure but I do remember thinking it was very reasonable.. and it was peanuts compared to today's Norvin values !
Ironically, maybe it was that which was putting buyers off ?.. Who knows, maybe they thought there was something wrong with the bike ?.. There really wasn't though, I could tell when I rode it that it was well set up and looked after. the only thing I didn't like about it (other than the riding position of course..) was the 'long-circuit' Manx Norton type tank (I prefer the look of the smaller 'short circuit' type.) but that could easily have been rectified !.. At least I can say I've ridden a Norvin, even if it was only for a few miles !
Lovely bike, beautiful sound....who the hell wants electric motorcycles or cars!
That engine was always looking for a better frame, both dynamically and aesthetically. Beautiful job!
@@towerdave4836 Thanks!
Egli made a superb frame for this engine.
@@keithgoodrick-meech3921I saw an Egli Vincent for sale in Jurby IOM.£65000.My mate said that's cheap for one of them!
Finding the compression sweet spot for firing it up is a bit tricky.Old bikes had this problem I think.
Sounds nice. I'm sure your neighbours agree with me...
I see he was checking for oil flow when he first cranked it up. Just like we did with old Indians!!
A work of art.
Is John Willers still alive? I remember an article in Motorcycle Mechanics featuring a Norvin that he built.
Amazing Combination of two iconic bikes.
✌️
Makeet saundit, ja vielä makeemman näköinen pyörä.
Lovely sound but what are the two flip-up-caps, on the fuel tank?
@@wm.traynor1143 fuel tank/oil tank
@@TheOTvideos Ah! Thank you😊
Saw a race years ago Egli Vincent against a TZ350 Yamaha I’ll never forget that sound of the Vincent down the back straight.Pukecohe race way 1972 NZ
Beautiful. The essence of a cafe racer…. And that sound….
Preciosa Norton, las café Racer.....✊
Wow, love the sound!
Excellent! I'd like it twice if I could.
That does more for me than my wife ever could lol
Fab machine. Head protection is why I'm still here.
One of the sexiest bikes ever.
where does Norvin come from? Beautiful engine.
NORton frame
VINcent engine
Phantastisch, Kompliment und meinen Respekt 🔧🤩👍
Gorgeous and sacrilege at the same time
Super - Bike ! Greetings from Germany !
Outstanding. 👍🏻