TALES FROM THE SHED
You know that moment when you stumble across a part you've been seeking for over more than a decade - on and off, we're not talking obsession here - and then you find it, take it home and it fits perfectly first time and without any bodging at all? Well ... that's not the case here. Are you in any way surprised?
Frustrated almost beyond reason and the recuperative powers of strong drink by my failure to produce an aesthetically impressive restored rear mudguard for the noble Norton Electra, and then having sodium chloride rubbed into that frustration by finding a perfectly sound replacement mudguard on eBay, I decided that I had simply had my fill of the little Norton - delicious though it is - and fancied flinging the spanners at something else. One of the minor joys of life is that there is always a pleasingly wide array of bikes in The Shed which demand attention. My old bikes are, collectively, one of the best reasons I can think of for buying new bikes.
But which old horror should it be? As I am fast becoming a Noted Expert on lightweight Norton twins, maybe I should tell tall tales about the other one in The Shed - a particularly handsome Navigator, complete with those voluminous skirts fitted by Norton Motors in a vain attempt at hiding its charms behind a modesty curtain. Victorians were keen on gestures like this, and look what happened to them.
Maybe I should tell you about my utterly glorious in every way AJS? Not the single which may be sharing space
