The steel monocoque frame used the engine as a stressed member, all designed to save weight, and it worked. The 1988 Norton Classic Rotary was much lighter than its only other Wankel competitor, the ...

After the slow-motion trainwreck that was the demise of the British motorcycle industry in the 1970s, only the beleaguered Meriden Co-Op (reduced to practically cottage industry-levels of Triumph ...

The F1 Sports was the swansong of Norton Rotary motorcycle production, representing the peak of the development at the time. It came about through the frustrating experiences of German importer Norton ...

To German financier Joe Siefert and partner Richard Negus nothing compares to a motorcycle with a rotary engine. So the pair have bought the stock of rotary parts of Norton cycles with hopes of ...

I’ve been passionate about motorcycles ever since I started riding dirt bikes in childhood and now I’m doing my best in blending mechanical engineering with motorcycle journalism. There have been many ...

Once you get into the rotary engine life, you'll either want to stay forever or run away as far as you can. But the more you get to drive these engines, the more addictive they become. I still ...

The story of how the "rotorbike" offshoot of Norton spent 26 years operating from an old bacon factory at Shenstone, Staffs, is complex. Sadly, although the marque was once famously "unapproachable", ...