One has to ask, what is the intended purpose?
As rolling art none of them can be beat.
As vintage machinery wonderful.
As a daily driver? Not so much...
As was said a very nice retro café can be built with a modern thumper.
YMMV

Good choice, the Atlas/Norton engine and the featherbed make it a good ride. Had a 68 Atlas 750 that I shoulda kept, nice smooth ride. The Commando, that came later, was nice too.

well, you had me, I thought that was a Triumph motor in a Norton frame.

Yes, sorry I think you're right. I thought that was an Atlas engine but mistaken on that.

Here's a shot of my Atlas, quite similar especially around the tach drive housing., I should've been more observant.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1417039380.jpg

When I was a schoolboy my best buddy Micheal Southwell had a Triton with the norton featherbed racing frame. He was always pissed off that it was neither a Norton nor a Triumph. Ah, to go back in time. My bike at the same time was a special build Triumph Bonneville called a Saint. I also wished it was a real Bonneville. One sold recently for $40,000 - slap my face.

Yes the Norton frame was good but I think the best frame around at the time was the one that held the BSA Triple and then when Triumph bought BSA they made the Trident with that frame.
Mine, post #7 was the newer frame.

And maybe the best looking Triumph ever too.

I really liked that bike, I raced the hell out of it. Nobody paid attention to it, they would ask me if I wanted to race my Bonneville. The Trident was a 750 stock but I had some work done to mine. It handled good and was faster but not as fast as a Kawasaki Z or a Honda Four, it just went through corners so much better.