Wow! That was some engineering for the time, I noticed the the chief designers was an ex Norton engineer, Walter Moore.
This..... This SG is how you build Motorbikes....
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When did Norton release its first twin cylinder, not 1938 ?
You might wonder what Walter Moore brought with him from the factory or was the engine design from his own thinking (along with his assistant Albert Roder)
Maybe he left Norton for a reason.....
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In Australia, we also have the British mindset. None of us can win globally with that. Most of us buy on price, rather than quality. What is good, is extremely good, but it is the minority of product. SG's Norton is a good product, but how much involves Chinese metallurgy ?
BMW doesn't know how to do it very well either. I'm sure they hang together better than the 961, but as a manufacturer they have a very low reliability rating. That was the finding of a large Consumer reliability study, 2011-2015 models.
Yamaha was top.Harley and Triumph were in the middle.
BMW and Ducati scored very near bottom.
Canam, built in my home country, dead last!
Glen
Yamaha was top.Harley and Triumph were in the middle.
BMW and Ducati scored very near bottom.
Canam, built in my home country, dead last!
Glen
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A lot of things simply have to do with leadership. The Japanese are motivated by national pride and the controls are internalised. If you cannot get your workforce motivated to work for the good of their company and themselves, the discipline required to create quality products is often elusive. I don't believe the Japanese have rigid hierarchies in their companies - more is done by teamwork. But their reward system is a puzzle to me. With the British workers, so much has been done to them, I don't know how there has not been workplace assassinations. And Australia is only marginally better, but we are too dumb to know.
