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I am lucky I own a orginal 57 Wideline frame and a orginal 60 Slimline frame, I have also seen a few copy frames around, a few well built but have also seen some badly built frames, I can pick a copy frame pretty easy, but if you are going to pay up to $2,000 for a copy you want to be sure its a good copy but you won't know till what ever you build is on the road and of course that will take time to get use to riding it, after building my 850 Wideline Featherbed it took me about 2 to 3 months of riding it to learn how the bike handled and how to push it throught the corners as well learning how far I can stand it up doing long wheelies, I can tell you I can get it to stand straight up without it going to far back where its going to flip, it gets to a point that you can still hold the power on and not flip and with the Norton gearbox you can upshift while on the back wheel and keep the power on.So wheather a copy frame will do this I don't know as I have never ridden one, but there are still a lot of orginal frames to be found, but finding one that is still straight or hasn't been repaired in someway is another thing, you got to know what you are looking at, my 850 Featherbed has been built with 19" wheels and handles great but my 650 Slimline has been changed to 18"rear wheel so won't know what effect that will have as I am still building it and have never rode it but can't wait to try it out.Ashley
I am lucky I own a orginal 57 Wideline frame and a orginal 60 Slimline frame, I have also seen a few copy frames around, a few well built but have also seen some badly built frames, I can pick a copy frame pretty easy, but if you are going to pay up to $2,000 for a copy you want to be sure its a good copy but you won't know till what ever you build is on the road and of course that will take time to get use to riding it, after building my 850 Wideline Featherbed it took me about 2 to 3 months of riding it to learn how the bike handled and how to push it throught the corners as well learning how far I can stand it up doing long wheelies, I can tell you I can get it to stand straight up without it going to far back where its going to flip, it gets to a point that you can still hold the power on and not flip and with the Norton gearbox you can upshift while on the back wheel and keep the power on.
So wheather a copy frame will do this I don't know as I have never ridden one, but there are still a lot of orginal frames to be found, but finding one that is still straight or hasn't been repaired in someway is another thing, you got to know what you are looking at, my 850 Featherbed has been built with 19" wheels and handles great but my 650 Slimline has been changed to 18"rear wheel so won't know what effect that will have as I am still building it and have never rode it but can't wait to try it out.
Ashley
