Somewhere in my body runs the "hell why not" gene!
Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2011 5:33 pm
Somewhere in my body runs the "hell why not" gene!
And every now and then it breaks free, causing me unspecified amounts of self inflicted greif
but as Delboy would say, who dares wins Rodders! who dares wins. 
So for a while now I have had a longing for an old style, road legal race type bike, something along the lines of an old pre, or post war Manx TT bike, single cylinder, no frills or propper suspension, no brakes to talk of, sprung saddle, something like this....
Yes that's it, that's what I want, a Manx Norton, but hell they aint cheap, or exactly growing on trees
Oh well, one day maybe
But then, a couple of weeks back, as I was drifting through the dark recesses of eBay land, I came across this, so I bid, and won
and a project started taking shape, not an easy project, not a quick project, but it should be a fun project....
It is a 1951 Norton "garden gate" frame the same as they used on the Manx, in fact in 1938 one of these was piloted round the Island at an average 98mph, not many modern bikes can do that today
Since getting this money pit
I have been given...
saddle,
crank cases,
gearbox,
oil tank.
And have bought a set of truly rusty old roadholder forks.
So the fun begins.
And every now and then it breaks free, causing me unspecified amounts of self inflicted greif
but as Delboy would say, who dares wins Rodders! who dares wins.
So for a while now I have had a longing for an old style, road legal race type bike, something along the lines of an old pre, or post war Manx TT bike, single cylinder, no frills or propper suspension, no brakes to talk of, sprung saddle, something like this....
Yes that's it, that's what I want, a Manx Norton, but hell they aint cheap, or exactly growing on trees
Oh well, one day maybe
But then, a couple of weeks back, as I was drifting through the dark recesses of eBay land, I came across this, so I bid, and won
and a project started taking shape, not an easy project, not a quick project, but it should be a fun project....
It is a 1951 Norton "garden gate" frame the same as they used on the Manx, in fact in 1938 one of these was piloted round the Island at an average 98mph, not many modern bikes can do that today
Since getting this money pit
I have been given...
saddle,
crank cases,
gearbox,
oil tank.
And have bought a set of truly rusty old roadholder forks.
So the fun begins.
