A good thread. Must remember that bikes, Nortons, are a different thing to each person.
Some want a dead genuine stock as issued bike. Like the 100 point guys with the old cars.
"That switch cluster was polished but then it was cleared and yours isnt cleared so you lose a point"
"But I like it polished"..."Too bad , you are WRONG".
Some want a cafe racer. Those guys can be amazing like Ludwig. Being a machinist and having
a
lathe puts him above most of us. I cannot even turn up a bloody washer
.
Others race or build. Think Jim, wizard of the CNC and having a brain that thinks up stuff
for it do do. Forget not CNW who are blindingly expensive BUT you get what you pay for.
Like Wolfie, I have an aviation background. All parts are judged by that standard and Im almost
always disappointed. But our bikes were built by failing manufacturers with clapped out tools and
establishments. They were built to a price, a tight margin to say the least.
Suspect most of us here are greybeards and we had these same bikes back in the day. So we
know damn well what crapulous pieces they really were. Keep it in mind when you splash for
the odd bit . If you want to buy crap plenty will be there for you . Say thank you that AN bothers
to invest capital in their venture and be amazed their boss actually rides much less touches wrenches.
Think we need to keep it in mind that money and time drive all. In youth, it is about money,
in old age time. In later middle age we get a brief window where we often have both and
thence commence The Project.
...there goes our money and time!
