Vintage Motorcycle Barn Find 97 year old Norton 16H flat tanker lives again! The first rides on my 1927 Norton 16H
Hi team I hope we are all well in todays savingclassicmotorcycles video I’ll be introducing my 1927 Norton 16H flat tanker from the golden age of the original Norton Motorcycles back when Norton had iconic overhead and sidevalve motorcycles in the single cylinder category.
The Norton 16H in 1927 was one of the premier sports touring motorcycles of the late 1920s earlier in the 20’s of Norton Motorcycles the 16H side valve was the premium sports performance single taking records both in Reliability Trials and at Brooklands along with Isle of Man TT Races. With the development of the OHV Race bikes like the model 25 the 16H remained in the Norton Range for sports touring duties as a fast sports tourer.
The Norton range in the 1920s created by Pa Norton who’s favoured mount was another side valve the iconic Big4 single cylinder was for me one of the pinnacle approaches of a motorcycle range built for the expert and the everyday rider while still being affordable.
Often people would buy a motorcycle to go to work on, race and take the family out in a sidecar. While being the truly unapproachable Norton racing wise with motorcycles in the range for everyone something I hope the modern incarnation of TVS Norton return to in the future and realise.
With the highly successful OHV bikes kept in low numbers.
I hope you enjoy the videos from my first experiences with a flat tank Norton filmed over 167 miles of riding in this clip, in the depths of February 2022 watching them back with hindsight as to a fault that’s developing in the filming is funny :) find out more about that in the next video launching tomorrow.
My 16h is all records matching and runs an Amac carb, with the original bars and grips the bars being an optional spec on the factory build sheet.
I’ve since removed the original grips to protect them.
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