Norton Versus Wife

She's not that smart as she has put up with me for this long, no other woman would, she even goes out and gets beer for my fridge, when out shopping she always phones home and ask if I need anything for my shed fridge, thats why she is a cool chick.

So in a way she puts up with me and I put up with her, we both aren't perfect and thats why we get on so well, but then I put up with a lot as well as I have 2 daughters that live at home as well and one is sweet sixteen, thank god I have my man cave.

Ashley

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I got married in 74 and got my MK3 in 75. I've had this picture in my office for years in a frame with the caption: "My wife and my Norton when they were both brand new". She loves me and the bike, and is a great mate. Over the years I've had the cyl head in the dishwasher and various parts in the oven. She always helped.
She and the Nort have aged considerably, but they both look pretty good even now. I'm thankful and love them both.


Jaydee

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jaydee75 said:

I got married in 74 and got my MK3 in 75. I've had this picture in my office for years in a frame with the caption: "My wife and my Norton when they were both brand new". She loves me and the bike, and is a great mate. Over the years I've had the cyl head in the dishwasher and various parts in the oven. She always helped.
She and the Nort have aged considerably, but they both look pretty good even now. I'm thankful and love them both.


Jaydee

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That is a lovely story. I like to hear stories like that.

I remember seeing an ad in the paper:

SOME BASTARD STOLE MY HELMET AND NORTON

NOW LOOKING FOR WIFE

MUST HAVE HELMET AND NORTON

SEND PHOTO OF HELMET AND NORTON

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jaydee75 said:

I got married in 74 and got my MK3 in 75. I've had this picture in my office for years in a frame with the caption: "My wife and my Norton when they were both brand new". She loves me and the bike, and is a great mate. Over the years I've had the cyl head in the dishwasher and various parts in the oven. She always helped.
She and the Nort have aged considerably, but they both look pretty good even now. I'm thankful and love them both.


Jaydee

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This is the "great beauty".
Piero

Just tell her ' cook my dinner then clear off ! '. You've got to get your priorities right.

acotrel said:

Just tell her ' cook my dinner then clear off ! '. You've got to get your priorities right.

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That is such a pucked opinion.. That statement is so wrong in many ways..

Three reasons why a Norton is better than a wife:

1). You can ride your Norton anywhere, but not your wife.

2) A Norton's value increases with age.

3) You can easily trade a Norton, but not your wife.

Also, consider this: girlfriends love Nortons, but wives do not like girlfriends....ergo, wives do not like Nortons. Just being silly...no offense to anyone's wife. I know there are some good ones out there....my second one turned out super!

Slick

I apologise for being cynical, I traded my first wife in for one who is a happy person. However I would say this - me ex tolerated endless boring conversations between hairy adrenalin addicts about things which held absolutely no interest for her. Many times I would get out of bed on weekends at 4 a.m. and drive to race meetings hundreds of kilometres away towing the bike, on my own. I'd race all day and probably fall off a couple of times. Then tow the bike towards home. I would stop on the other side of town from home and ring my wife. By the time I got home she would always have a lovely dinner waiting for me. Then I'd get under the shower and pick the bits of skin off. They were lovely days except for the attitude, isolation and non-resolution of any issue. If you are getting that - walk away as soon as possible.

When we met I had one bike and she had three dogs.
She still has three dogs and I have eight bikes,she got me a bike lifter last Christmas.
I missed out on a Sunbeam S7 Deluxe last week.
Thirteen other bikes totaling well over 200 years of ownership are in storage (overseas)
She said we need a bigger house and a 'very large garage.
I said a bigger property would be better so the dogs have more space to explore.
Life is a two way street.
Communication goes a long way.

It is all about communication. The best sex ever is with someone you really love. I understand where my ex was coming from. In our generation our fathers fought in WW2. Her father was one of the 18 year olds who beat the Japanese at Kokoda in New Guinea. When he came home he was off the planet, and beat my ex when she was young, severely and regularly. Her relationship with men is different from the way most women behave. She is a lovely person, however extremely difficult to live with if you are used to talking, and don't like being isolated.
It is a strange thing however what I remember from my first marriage is road racing a lot, and surf fishing on the 90 mile beach, both usually on my own. I cannot remember much about anything else. The motorcycles will save your soul and keep you sane.

Well here's my story.
I have had my 2 850's since the seventies. Met my wife in the early eighties, married her in '89 and divorced her this year.
During the whole time she wanted me to sell the bikes cuz I was always working on it at the beginning of each riding season spending at least $500 each time.
It was always a head issue whether it was valves, guides or just leaks at the head. It never really was very reliable.
I found Access Norton about 4 years ago and with the help on here I was able to "restore" it frame up and modified and fixed the head problems completely as well as the handling.
It has been a totally reliable bike with 0 break downs for 4 riding seasons and countless miles on the road.
My ex wife never understood the need to be able to hop on the bike and ride or how relaxing it was.
She rode on the back once and that was it.
After 25 year of marriage I am now single. I have both my kids, both of my bikes and a nice shop to work on them.
Work has been real busy, money is rolling in and work has started on the '73. It will be put back to the Dunstall setup.
Never realized how expensive a wife can be until you get rid of one.

Guido said:

I Never realized how expensive a wife can be until you get rid of one.

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Amen to that!

My wife only married me because I (1) had a Ducati, and (2) would stoop to fixing her H***a for the 'usual considerations'

She no longer has the H***a, and as for the 'usual considerations'...

Getting divorced can be expensive if you get silly and fight - the lawyers win. When I split with my ex, I had come home from work one day and she said 'I think I want a divorce'. I immediately said 'you've got it'. So we sat down and split everything right down the middle - house, furniture, superannuation, savings - everything. No lawyers involved. Three months later I woke up in my new town house wondering what the strange feeling was that I had. I WAS HAPPY !
I am telling you this because the common idea about divorce is that it should always be a big mess. I suggest if it happens, we should be rational about it.
I've remarried, and my wife complains that I don't take her out on the back of a big Harley. You cannot please everyone, and I simply happy that she is so tolerant. She gets her turn, these days we both cuddle grand-children.

10 years ago my wife laid down the law, she told me to either sell the Norton or get intimate with it, make it right and ride it, sell that heavy Honda ST1300 and spend the money on your Norton!

I chose intimacy, rewired everything, belt primary, new clutch hub and basket, Buchanan's built wheels,
had motor completely rebuilt, found Matt at CNW and showered him with money for Brembo front brake,
CNW head steady, CNW hydraulic clutch, then finally sold the single Mikuni and fitted flat slides from Jim.

What a relief to have it all together just right and what a learning experience

Many of us now older guys have it pretty good, beautiful and reliable Nortons and wonderful wives!

Refreshing to read how well it can work out iup/3dn. Alicia and I go round and round on home priorities in fair fights but she's interested enough in my interests to ask questions on this and that cycle or other stuff and help out w/o much fuss. We both learned lesion on having THE STATE as a 3rd party in licensed relationships so pure common law rules our roost. We picked April Fools Day as anniversary date for how such a life time joke it is for an uncompilable couple as us to get along 23 yr. No way can I convince her to ride on back with me as proof how smart she is.

Thought Processing:



Husband’s call:

"Honey it's me. I don't want to alarm you but I was hit by a car as I was leaving the office. Paula brought me to the hospital. They have checked me over and done some tests and some x-rays.

The blow to my head was severe. Fortunately it did not cause any serious internal injury. However I have three broken ribs, a compound fracture in the left leg, and they think they may have to amputate my right foot."

Wife’s Response:


"Who is Paula?"

I believe the double by-pass op, and the three strokes I've had were due to high cholesterol due to the stress of my work and my former relationship. I'd say though that I am a better person for the experience. One other thing, through all of that sort of thing we sometimes should be selfish and do something just for ourselves. My racing career was pretty horrible, however I would not have missed it for the world. The memories and my current bike keep me alive during the rare bad times these days.

Ugh Alan back in 1914 and again in 2004 it was found by far the most predictive thing on someone's death by brain or heart stroke from vascular blockage was how much padding it took under head so they could lay out flat on x-ray buckey w/o much discomfort. Conclusion in 1914 was brain stem impingement from old neck injury wearing out with ongoing bad posture was primary cause of atherosclerosis. 2004 study didn't care, they were only paid to find the most cost effective predictor of impending death. You can not hold a thot in your head or a feeling in your heart w/o it affecting the neck and jaw muscles, so mental-emotional stress just piles up on bad posture decay. Throw in bad diet and genetic problems digesting or detoxing to accelerate the deadly decay process faster-worser. Combined these factors help shut down higher brain functions to so people tend to react from spinal cord level more like reptiles than people which magnifies the wear/tear process dramatically. Long term life solution is regrowing neck and eating the high mineral food and supplements. If not for this my wife and I would of shot each other in our sleep if not wide wake in a fight but we got our necks-brain stems ahead of that level of decay so we fight fair and never in turmoil with each other at bed time, or we are beat up mess next day.

I don't just ride cycles to limits testing reality. There's an old joke about using wife's stuff to fix something and she confronts ya over and ya just tell her - "Hey its easier to ask forgiveness than permission". About 10 yr ago I said that on purpose to my Alicia, woowwee none for me for a season. Last pm I finally got around to pouring liquid metal into a brake line to prevent kinks on bending it. I'd waited til wife off to bed to start process in kitchen but the light made her come checking on me - mid pour mess- to see I'd used a SS cup and a saucer - oh my she was hot- stood over me with hands on hips glaring - but I held my mean tongue, somewhat explaining it'd all come off like wax and then proved it so she eyeballed it all closely but eventually relaxed and that was that to get another memorable detail on my mistress Ms Peel done. It took her 6 yrs before she believed me about the neck and mineral issues but last couple decades she's my best salesman to new patients calling up. Prior failed relationships took enough out of me that I missed out on mc racing hobby so catching up in my much healthier last years here, no longer concerned about old age infirmities or starting another relation or living alone again.

VAGUELY NORTON RELATED. HARDLY WIFE RELATED. DEFINITELY GIRL FRIEND RELATED

My ex wife decided some years ago to bail out and take the farm with her. I was devastated at the time. Now years later, new home, unbelievably beautiful girl friend and a Mk III Commando in the garage, I send the ex wife flowers and a card every week thanking her profusely!!

So one night I am on the phone to Jenny to tell her I love her when the desire for a pee pee came upon me. I headed for the bathroom. Phone to ear with one hand, other hand unzipping fly half way and pee pee commences. Tragically, I dropped my new iPhone 5 straight into the toilet bowl. In a panic I reached down to retrieve it and pee pee'd all over my new sooky la la Norton riding shorts!! Phone is now crackling and lights are flashing on and off. Jenny asks where are you? Sounds like you are underwater. What is going on? In great distress I tell her, what the hell do I do? Very calmly she says take your sooky la la Norton riding shorts off and put them in the dirty clothes basket. Dry the phone with the Norton polishing cloth you always keep in your top pocket.
Go have a bex, a cup of tea and a good lie down. Love you sweetie.

How good is that? My ex wife would have screamed her head off!! Particularly as I was talking to my girlfriend on the phone!!

Love Jenny to death. She saves me through every crisis.
And man does she look hot on the back of the Norton!