KENNY CUMMINGS

“Vintage motorcycle racing has taught me that you can’t always have absolutes in things,” Kenny Cummings says as he regards the 1936 Norton International sitting on a lift at his third-floor workshop in a massive old industrial building in Jersey City.

Cummings is a racer, a musician, and the gregarious owner of NYC Norton, a two-man enterprise that specializes in high-end Norton restorations and vintage racing.

“I love the ride, I love the race, but I also love the production side of things. There’s very much these fundamentals about it. It’s been a push-pull thing, growing up as an artistic kid,” Cummings says by way of explaining his affinity for both the ordered, objective world of the workbench and the unpredictable world of vintage racing. “Art is-absolutes.”