My Norton 961 gets the Stuart Bodycote treatment 

It's really nice when you are fortunate enough to find an Artisan.

Very good video Simon, very informative and actually scary. After having a Donnington 'factory' visit back in the day and a Solihull Factory visit last year, there is a chalk and cheese difference in facilities and I think about 100 million gbp difference in resources. I actually pointed out a ' lack of penetration' weld defect on a petrol tank during my visit at the time. With that in mind, I am sincerely hoping that i will not be requiring SB assistance or any other 'fettling' on my 961SP if all the media hype is accurate regarding the Solihull Norton improvements. Good luck and Safe riding on your excellent machine

That chap knows his stuff. Excellent service in every sense

Great video Simon, and very comforting to know Stuart is there for us 961 owners!

Thanks for the video, we’ll put together and very informative. Glad you got the bike sorted. The issues identified with your machine reinforce my view that the earlier 961’s are more akin to home-brewed specials than professionally manufactured machines. That’s not to knock them, but the label ‘hand-built machine’ has its drawbacks - small scale production is often less consistent than properly tooled-up production at scale and hands make mistakes that robots tend not to.

Delighted that you have had Stuart work on your Norton and fix all the issues, hope you can really enjoy the beautiful 961 throughout the coming spring, summer season 👍

Thank you for putting up this video... would love if we had someone like Stuart in New Zealand to take care of the 961s.

Morning Proffessori, another great vlog. I'm so pleased your bike has been sorted. But saddened that some of those issues may be factory related . Also, I hope it will help other Norton owners with any problems they may have.

This is a man at ease in his natural environment, it’s amazing the difference in presentation to the interview you did with Stuart were he was a tad camera shy here he is in his element I could watch these sort of clips of a maestro at work for hours! It amused me that as you were praising Stuart for giving the bike a valet, you were riding through a farm entrance covered in manure, I hope you washed the Norton when you got home😅

I don’t think I’d be buying a Norton anytime soon as I think they would all have to go to Stuart to be pdi’d I think Norton should be ashamed of them selves if you haven’t complained to them about it I think they have got off lightly seems like Stuart is a excellent mechanic and knows his stuff and yes he is definitely a perfectionist great video glad your happy now and have 1000’s of miles trouble free journeys ride safe take care 👍👋

Very interesting video lucky you being able to get out still a tad chilly here maybe next week fingers crossed.

What was the total cost? I just bought a 2013 so might ship mine from the U.S. to Stewart.

LOL, as I thought, the 961 is a nice bike, but a Lemon, just like the Zane produced Laverdas. ;-) of which I have 2. Fine Bikes, but so full of it… ;-)

Jeez, the build quality was shocking though. Awful really for such an expensive bike.

They not built very well your just buying the name