Classic Bike Guide

Project Norton

Two STEPS FORWARD, ONE STEP BACK. I'M NOT learning to dance, but this is how my attempts at building a Norton ES2 are going. I'm going to repeat this until I am riding it around; do not buy a box of parts masquerading as a motorbike ...

Last month I shimmed up the bottom end. And this is the reality of life on a magazine; quite often a project has to wait several weeks until worked on again - life, work, family and, in my case, an old car engine and a BMW boxer got in the way. But while in the workshop measuring tolerances in my Opel Kadett engine (well someone has to like them) I had a feeling - that sixth sense - that something was amiss with what I'd

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