OK – below is part of the info (taken verbatim) from Steve’s 79×100 Norton blog. For a whole lot more detail, please go to Steve’s site HERE.
Well complete is a big word, but this probably as close as it gets .I’ll stick up some pics and some titles as well. I have no idea what this restoration cost and I suppose about three years of chasing parts and to be honest its a little disappointing when they are finished, still I have other projects to start and to finish .
I kind of like these pics from an angle at the rear and looking down .This shows a second hand muffler from one of the swap meetings the new K70 Dunlop rear tyre and the old style number plate bracket this one should have the tail light centred in a projection on the right hand top corner, if I pick up the correct one Ill swap them over .
The drive side shows MO1 maggy this one has to be a clockwise one, hard to find for sure , well actually you just need a cam plate that is a clockwise one, hours of work have gone into the chain cases, they always seem to be badly knocked about, some by having a primary chain derailed inside . The old style battery cases are a bit more expensive than the later ones I got this one from the UK can’t remember the company . You may notice the footrest cranks cast in bronze by Manx Classic Spares I thought they looked so good I didn’t bother with the black paint they won’t rust either .
FRONT END Indian copy of Webb girders 1950’s hub laced into Dunlop 21 inch mudcatcher rim with stainless spokes. Just fitted a new Avon rib tyre, the mud guard was made by Adam Higgins [THE EARLY YEARS] who can make anything you want he’s at the Ballarat and Bendigo swaps his phone number is 03 5148 3207 This guy is an artisan and very well priced. I had to extend the brake lever and make up a heap of spacers to centre the wheel in the forks. The original would have had the QD brake and hub set which is much wider, Norton did fit a one piece hub/brake before the war but only in the Inters and some ES2’s and would have been combined with a cradle frame. The the clunkers were left with the open diamond frame the tractor mudguards the square oil tanks and the wide girders.
BACK END I managed to find the correct cotton reel hub a new sprocket and the correct brake plate. I pulled this alloy rim off my Commando and replaced it with a SS item, home made chain guard mudguard stays repro rear stand from Rod [Portland ]and repro number plate bracket original Lucas tail light actually still had olive drab paint on it .
Jules edit: below is some video I shot of the bike running, but before it was completed.
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