In 1959 I got my first bike, I was three years old. It was a red tricycle with white-walled tires. I rode it up and down the street in front of our house. Once I graduated to a two wheeler I began a multitude of adventures riding on a collection of hand me down bikes with salvaged parts. It wasn't untill I was 16 that I owned a new bike, it was a chocholate brown Sears ten speed that I saw in the Spring catalogue. My Father kicked in half the money and he wasn't surprised when it was stolen three months later. A couple of years later I was working and got bitten buy the new bike bug again. I went downtown to the top bicycle store in Toronto. The store was busy but the owner was milling about. He asked me If I was looked after yet. I said I had $200 and I wanted a racing bike that was made in Europe. He showed me a blue Bottechia Deluxe and I came back on the following Tuesday to pick it up. I bonded with that bike, often riding it around the empty Go Train parking lot well into the late evening just to keep riding. The Bottecchia travelled back and forth between toronto and Vancouver a couple of times before it was stolen. I rode a couple of more years on hand me downs before I picked up a red Kuwahara mountain bike which I enjoyed for several years before it was stolen when my son rode it to school. When spring came in 93 I bought a black Diamond Back with the bio-pace gears. I lived up at 19th and Lonsdale in North Vancouver and rode to Trimble Park in West Point Grey almost everyday. I loved that bike and rode it into the ground before I bought an inexpensive Raliegh Summit. I had been doing a good deal of riding on the Raliegh when I came across a program that pays upto $500 towards a new bicycle when you scrap an old vehicle. At that point I was driving an old van that I was looking to get rid of. I did some searching of the cycling blogs on the internet and came away with the distinct impression that what I wanted a NORCO CCX. I scrapped the van and took the paperwork to the nearest bike store. Ten minutes later I owned a brand new CCX3. That was three months ago, since then the CCX3 and I have been burning up the pavement & gravel pathways of the lower mainland. I have been thru a set of brake pads allready. I keep it in the dinning room and oil the chain in the kitchen. Without reservation I can say that next to the Bottecchia it is my alltime favourite bike so far. I am planning a cycle tour of Tasmania & Southern Australia next year, but I am reluctant to take the CCX3 but I don't want to do the trip without it.
Happy Riding,
Benny GO GO

I am greatly fond of vast voyages under my own steam, I bought a Norco Indie in April in Cork city and since; I have cycled from the city to Mizen head (furthest southwestmost point of Ireland) to Malin head (northernmost point of Ireland) via most of the wobbley ups and downs of most of the west coast, then from Malin to Dublin, over the sea (by ferry, I have not yet found an adequete peddalo attachment ;)) to Anglesea in Wales, over the mountains of Snowdonia, then south to the Brecon Beacons, past the black mountains, the forest of Dean, to Oxfordshire (saw my folks) then to Glastonbury in Somerset (saw my other folks and rested for a bit,), headed to Poole and ferried over to Normandy, then the wiggley wobbly bits of most of the north coast of Brittany and began heading south to an eventual winter employment in the Pyrennees.
as this was perhaps, dare I say, a little too easy, I have thus determined, as spring rolls along, a route to take me from here to Norway, to Scotland and back to Ireland, with the evental hope of one day cycling around Iceland for as many months is feasible
and all upon a solid, realiable, beautiful machine.
Norco I thank and salute ye!
keep making that which has been the foundation of my dreams and adventures, more than a decent product you have given Possibilities.
regards
Neil

After riding a Trike for two and one half years because back injuries kept me from riding on two wheels...that is until April of this year. I worked with a personal trainer to strengthen my legs, my upper body, and most definitely my core muscles. I increased the miles on my Trike by about 50% per year that also contributed to more core strength. In April of this year I felt that I might be ready to ride upright but felt that a Road Bike with racing geometry would be too tough on the back and I would find myself back on there wheels. The owner of the bike shop suggested I considering a "Touring" setup so I went to the web and did some research. Except for the weight of the frame I could not find a single negative about the concept and convinced myself that it would work. Then it was time to select the bike with the best fit. I rode 5 or 6 models but found myself moving toward the Norco Cabot and after 3 test rides I became the proud owner of a Norco Cabot. I bought the Cabot about April 1 of 2011 and as of early October of have logged over 1700 miles and could not be more pleased. I ride the only Touring Bike in a group of Road Bikes and after some hard months not only do I keep up with the group but often ride at the front of the pack. By the way I started with the Trike at age 64 and the Norco Cabot just short of my 67th birthday.

I have a 1999 Norco Terrene that I rode from Vancouver to Ottawa back when the bike was brand new. I put some race wheels on it and used it in a couple Ironman races. I got another bike in 2003. The touring bike sat in my mom's basement until last year when I rescued it and rode it around BC for three weeks. I realized I loved riding this bike. I sold all my other bikes and just ride this one now. I have it set up with cyclocross tires and low gears. I really do love this bike.