If I can't have an Egli Vincent, I want a Norvin.
This picture, ripped from Mick Walker's Cafe Racers of the 1960s, is of the Bacon brothers, Alf on the bike, Harry standing behind. The bike is timeless, Alf's fashion sense seems more 1972 than the sixties (nitpicking, I know) and Harry is much too formal for either decade!
The fairing appears to be a Ducati Desmo 750 item, or possibly it's an Avon? Someone knows for sure.
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I know! I know! It's an Avon "bullet" quarter-fairing, as seen (usually with lowers attached on Nortoon's "Domiracer" bikes developed by Doug Hele. For once I won't rattle off every fact and lie I know about the Domiracer project, except to say that it went the way of most of the British bike industry's good ideas; i.e., the o/a budget was about £50, and the effort was prematurely shitcanned. Because Norton thought the Manx racers were good enough to see the company through the '60s and probably the '70s too.
Same fairing was used for the Commando production-class bikes, ten years later.
Airtech makes and sells a faithful copy of the fairing. If you're unfamiliar with Airtech, they make swell vintage (and other) fiberglass and/or plastic stuff for road and race bikes; and they're fine people to do business with; and yes, they pay me to say things like that.
I bet the Airtech link I'm about to glue in below will fail to appear. They can be found on that Google, anyway.
https://www.airtech-streamlining.com/vintage-fairings-seats-fenders-parts/nortoncommando.htm
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