Have registered at PhotoBucket.com. So photos may be forth coming prior to hunting season but no promises. And have recovered from the sticker shock of new pipes & mufflers ... Wonder if Lewis Leathers are still around?
The rebuild is a 1973 Norton Interstate. Bought as a Paul Dunstall Conversion in August 1975 in Red Deer, Alberta at Turple Brothers Motorcycles. Same day I purchased Roger Lovin's book on surviving as a nomad. Rex Turple really didn't want to part with the machine. He was hobbling around the showroom on crutches at the time ... Blood red, black and chrome. The bike, not Rex.
Rode around Edmonton for three weeks and then left for the east coast on Labour Day weekend. That proved to be a bit of an adventure. Think a Norton twin vibrates a bit, eh? Well, so did the Lucas recifier... fell apart just outside Tre Riviere, Quebec at three AM one morning ... or the metal ferrels on the plastic fuel lines that loosened in the parking lot one sunny afternoon in London, Ontario. Neat little puddle on top of the very warm crankcase ... and it wasn't water as the sun was shining.
I'm thinking braided steel lines for everything. Gooseneck heater pipes. Possiblly rearset pegs with flat handlebars. Very much doubt my back or knees will allow rearset pegs but the handling is sooo much snapier in the "the position". The original Dunstall pattern clip-on bars had a funny compound angle to them that not only caused the bars to bump the fairing cut outs but really caused a lot of forarm strain at the time. And the Dunstall double seat had very little padding over the two frame rails ... perhaps I should just buy a large bottle of single malt and lay back on the couch and forget this rebuild nonsence, and get on with watching the movie, "The Long Way Around".
Talk at you later!
The rebuild is a 1973 Norton Interstate. Bought as a Paul Dunstall Conversion in August 1975 in Red Deer, Alberta at Turple Brothers Motorcycles. Same day I purchased Roger Lovin's book on surviving as a nomad. Rex Turple really didn't want to part with the machine. He was hobbling around the showroom on crutches at the time ... Blood red, black and chrome. The bike, not Rex.
Rode around Edmonton for three weeks and then left for the east coast on Labour Day weekend. That proved to be a bit of an adventure. Think a Norton twin vibrates a bit, eh? Well, so did the Lucas recifier... fell apart just outside Tre Riviere, Quebec at three AM one morning ... or the metal ferrels on the plastic fuel lines that loosened in the parking lot one sunny afternoon in London, Ontario. Neat little puddle on top of the very warm crankcase ... and it wasn't water as the sun was shining.
I'm thinking braided steel lines for everything. Gooseneck heater pipes. Possiblly rearset pegs with flat handlebars. Very much doubt my back or knees will allow rearset pegs but the handling is sooo much snapier in the "the position". The original Dunstall pattern clip-on bars had a funny compound angle to them that not only caused the bars to bump the fairing cut outs but really caused a lot of forarm strain at the time. And the Dunstall double seat had very little padding over the two frame rails ... perhaps I should just buy a large bottle of single malt and lay back on the couch and forget this rebuild nonsence, and get on with watching the movie, "The Long Way Around".
Talk at you later!
