My Norton Print

I am myself a biker for more than 40 years, I had many motorcycles, and some mythic ones as the Laverda 750 SF, I kept 20 years, The R 100 RS BMW, and some others, but had I never been the owner of a mythic Norton Manx, just in dreams ! About the title, You have to You must hear and pronounce it in a certain way, for it is only in this way that I hear it! It was years ago, (35 years can be!) I was driving on the highway with my Laverda 750 SF and I saw in my rearview mirror a motorcycle that was following me and that for a long time. Intrigued I ended up stopping. He was an Englishman, flying an old Norton. As I speak English I was able to chat with him. He knew his machine by heart, was able to disassemble it entirely on the side of the road! He came from Birmingham and rode through France without any specific purpose. What I remember from him is his way of saying "My Norton" it was really inimitable and very fun! With his accent of Birmingham very marked, it gave "My NOOOrTONN" the r being almost completely swallowed. It is stupid but there are details like that in the life that definitely marks, and this encounter with this biker so sympathetic, who confessed to follow my motorcycle because of the noise it made that he found amazing! (Ma Laverda had a two escape in one free, it was a real concert !!!) Then there is in this image that I created on computer, a second source of inspiration. It was in 2009, my parents were just deceased, and I was returning to France after two years spent in the usa, in the house of my parents now uninhabited but full of memories. In the attic, I found a model of the Protar brand, and I remembered the toy that I insistently asked my mother, I was 12 or 13 years old. There was only one shop in Paris where one could find this model and my mother had brought me there, it was at the other end of Paris, so a whole expedition. I brought this model home, and it was a real wonder, with many details more real than true! I spent a lot of time but managed to patiently build this model which was really very successful. And then, years later, I found in a box, in the attic of my poor parents deceased, this model in several pieces. I repaired it, digitized directly with a scanner and I obtained very interesting images, although very far from my usual paintings. Here is the story, which is for me full of diverse but strong emotions, and maybe it will pass

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:12 W x 8 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:17.25 W x 13.25 H x 1.2 D in

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