INTERVIEW
NORTON MOTORCYCLES OWNER STUART GARNER
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Superbike, officially, they've
been prepared to work with
Norton?
They were always very help-
ful previously, but now that they
have another focus [on MotoGP]
they have a little bit more ca-
pacity to be even more helpful.
We've swapped engineers, and
we've had a few Norton people
go to the factory in Italy to learn
more about the electronics
package, and the engine plat-
form in general, and that's been
super helpful. One thing that has
come back from the riders is that
the RSV4 motor is super quick,
but it's been difficult to cali-
brate it to tame the substantial
horsepower it produces. That's
bad enough on a billiard table
flat short circuit, but it presents
a whole new level of difficulty
when you're racing on public
roads, with all the lumps and
bumps in the surface that the
Island gives you.
It's important to point out that
our test rider is 2009 Senior
TT winner Steve Plater, so he
knows what he's doing. Steve's
been helping refine the Nor-
ton package, but we were in
Norton's "production line" at
work in its new facility.
