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    Project Norton ES2

    Jul 29, 2019 5 minutes
    WORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY MATT

    THE ES2 IS COMING ALONG; BUT IT doesn’t feel like it. With every up, there comes one, if not two, downs. Much of this is due to buying a bike in boxes, where you don’t know what you’ve got. But as I’ve said before, it was the only way I could afford Norton ownership.

    So my next stage had to bolster momentum and keep the project moving, so a dry-build of the chassis was needed. This would help in several ways. I could see what I’d got and therefore what I needed to look out for, I could then find what needed prep for painting, and feel like it was coming together while the engine was awaiting the specialist jobs required.

    THE ENGINE

    With the crank rebuilt and the

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