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Anybody know off hand what length SS brake hose is needed when swapping the caliper on a '73/european bars from the right to the left side? I would assume it's the same length that a Mark III would use if replacing the oem hose/steel tubing with an SS hose.
I'm not at the bike so I can't do any measuring. I'll be in TX next week and would like to get the hose from Old Britts for when I return to the bike in Dec.
I've been thinking about doing this for several years, as noted in the Norton Owner's Service Club Notes:
"You should all know the story of the front brake, position---originally fitted behind the right hand leg. For some exceedingly technical reason this caused all the bikes to pull to the left, and made most of them so bad that you couldn't steer the machine hands-off. Nortons which wouldn't steer hands off! And no-one complained. Well, actually, about a dozen people did, but there wasn't anything that could be done about it. Anyway, later it was found that if you take the forks out of the yokes and swap them over the brake finishes up in front of the left hand leg and the machine then steers O.K. No, I can't explain it either."
I'm not at the bike so I can't do any measuring. I'll be in TX next week and would like to get the hose from Old Britts for when I return to the bike in Dec.
I've been thinking about doing this for several years, as noted in the Norton Owner's Service Club Notes:
"You should all know the story of the front brake, position---originally fitted behind the right hand leg. For some exceedingly technical reason this caused all the bikes to pull to the left, and made most of them so bad that you couldn't steer the machine hands-off. Nortons which wouldn't steer hands off! And no-one complained. Well, actually, about a dozen people did, but there wasn't anything that could be done about it. Anyway, later it was found that if you take the forks out of the yokes and swap them over the brake finishes up in front of the left hand leg and the machine then steers O.K. No, I can't explain it either."
