ashman
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Best way to get to know your Norton is do as much work on it yourself, comes in handy knowing a bit about your bike helps if something goes wrong while out and about, I brought my Norton new when i was 17 and no experience at all but building it to the Featherbed frame in the 80s was a great learning experience and after 46 years I am still learning lol.
The experience and learning to fix it when something breaks as I can't afford anyone else to work on it, we didn't have forums to go to in the day, you learn by your mistakes, electric starts are good but I can't afford one but learning how to kick a Norton to life is a dying art form but if things are right and you learn the knack of kicking they are easy to kick over, you just got to learn the knack lol.
My Norton was a everyday ride most of its life and my younger days was my only transport no matter what the weather was like, it's no semi retired but still get ridden regularly, no use letting them sit, I have a modern Triumph that has take over everyday use but being retired now and cost of living going up both bikes aren't used everyday like when I was working, my 850 is built to Combat specs has a lot of compression but knowing how to kick then is so important, I am old school with my Norton and it will always be a kick start bike, as I say it's a dying art of kicking a bike to life, but mine is a one kick everytime but I have a Joe Hunt Maggie that produces one he'll of a spark for easy starting.
Ashley
The experience and learning to fix it when something breaks as I can't afford anyone else to work on it, we didn't have forums to go to in the day, you learn by your mistakes, electric starts are good but I can't afford one but learning how to kick a Norton to life is a dying art form but if things are right and you learn the knack of kicking they are easy to kick over, you just got to learn the knack lol.
My Norton was a everyday ride most of its life and my younger days was my only transport no matter what the weather was like, it's no semi retired but still get ridden regularly, no use letting them sit, I have a modern Triumph that has take over everyday use but being retired now and cost of living going up both bikes aren't used everyday like when I was working, my 850 is built to Combat specs has a lot of compression but knowing how to kick then is so important, I am old school with my Norton and it will always be a kick start bike, as I say it's a dying art of kicking a bike to life, but mine is a one kick everytime but I have a Joe Hunt Maggie that produces one he'll of a spark for easy starting.
Ashley