Norton Motorcycles has signed an agreement with Australia’s Fraser Motorcycles Group to homologate and distribute the Norton 961 Commando range throughout Australia and New Zealand. Fraser is based at Concord in New South Wales.
A Norton spokesman said: “Over the coming months our design and engineering department will ensure the range is fully homologated within the Australia Design Rules, while our partners at Fraser will develop a dealer network. As soon as we are able, we will give guidance on expected first delivery dates. Australia and New Zealand are exciting additions to our distribution network and offer an excellent prospect as we’ve received enormous levels of interest.”
This deal follows shortly after a first delivery of Norton bikes to Canada. But although the revived British brand has achieved EPA and CARB approval for the USA, it has yet to ship any machines to its putative dealer network there.