Hello everyone,
I've been really enjoying this forum for the past couple months. I keep meaning to post my Norton pics and introduce myself but just now getting to it. I've followed other forums and found the arrogance a bit much for me so I never registered with one before. Plus, I'm a loner and I do it my way. I was building Cafe bikes in Alabama when 8" over Forks by Frank (You've never been forked until you've been forked by frank was their motto.) 6 bend goof bars and King Queen seats was all the rage. I was a Norton, Triumph, Guzzi and Ducati dealer until 1981. In 1986 my son was born with Cystic Fibrosis and I parked my scooters. Up until then I put 15-20K miles a year on two wheels. I was such a cocky little ba&%%#*d that I left Denver headed on a 6 week around the west tour, loaded to the gills with less than a mile on a complete restoration of an e-start. I did the 500 mile service on the side of the road in Wyoming. No leaks and no breakdowns! Just flat tires.
This is what's left of that scooter:
I'm hoping to get the motivation to restore it again since it hasn't even been kicked over since the late 80's.
Here's a pic of a wreck that has 4000 miles on the clock that I have also.
I've been really enjoying this forum for the past couple months. I keep meaning to post my Norton pics and introduce myself but just now getting to it. I've followed other forums and found the arrogance a bit much for me so I never registered with one before. Plus, I'm a loner and I do it my way. I was building Cafe bikes in Alabama when 8" over Forks by Frank (You've never been forked until you've been forked by frank was their motto.) 6 bend goof bars and King Queen seats was all the rage. I was a Norton, Triumph, Guzzi and Ducati dealer until 1981. In 1986 my son was born with Cystic Fibrosis and I parked my scooters. Up until then I put 15-20K miles a year on two wheels. I was such a cocky little ba&%%#*d that I left Denver headed on a 6 week around the west tour, loaded to the gills with less than a mile on a complete restoration of an e-start. I did the 500 mile service on the side of the road in Wyoming. No leaks and no breakdowns! Just flat tires.
This is what's left of that scooter:
I'm hoping to get the motivation to restore it again since it hasn't even been kicked over since the late 80's.
Here's a pic of a wreck that has 4000 miles on the clock that I have also.
It's kinda like ole man Porshe said when people called his bathtub model ugly; "When they understand the function, they will see the beauty". That be me. When I was younger there was one more requirement...it had to make me pee all over myself when I pegged the throttle. (so to speak). My wonderful wife still does that to me! :lol:
