grandpaul
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After the fifth or sixth round of assembling Norton Commandos from various donor bikes, swap meets & parts sources, I found myself with nearly enough stuff to build yet another one. In order to clean off some shelf space, and consolidate a bunch of stuff into rolling form rather than hustling various boxes of bits around the shop, I assembled this:
...and still had this:
It all went up on e-bay along with a couple of other rolling projects, and didn't reach my reserve, so it just continued to gather dust.
Then, while delivering one of my latest client's bikes, he persuaded me to take all of his remaining spares home with me, which included most of a 750 Roadster, without the wheels, headers, carbs or lighting:
In one of those rare "right place at the right time" moments, I received an e-mail from a guy looking to buy a decent rolling project bike. So, off we went...
...and still had this:
It all went up on e-bay along with a couple of other rolling projects, and didn't reach my reserve, so it just continued to gather dust.
Then, while delivering one of my latest client's bikes, he persuaded me to take all of his remaining spares home with me, which included most of a 750 Roadster, without the wheels, headers, carbs or lighting:
In one of those rare "right place at the right time" moments, I received an e-mail from a guy looking to buy a decent rolling project bike. So, off we went...