Heya!
I thought I had an account here way back, but it may have been nuked which is fair!
Jumping back in to bikes after getting my learners to full on a 87 CBR250RR (The amount of R's were always in dispute, always being added to and taken away from)
But that met its end the day I got my full license, deciding to take a victory ride, the poor thing at like 90,000km let all its legs out of bed at 18,000RPM and promptly vaporized the engine block, what a mess I made
I never got that fixed, and sold it to a friend who put a replacement engine in it, so his kid could go for his license, so that was nice
I had always wanted another bike but cars got in the way, and due to my father passing away this time last year, I have Inherited his '72 Norton Commando 750 Interstate, its been in the family most of my life, I'm 32 now and I must have been 8-10 when he first got it, back then to me it was always this scary black beast, must have weighed 1000 tons and sounded like pure wonderful evil! but it was always so amazingly intimidating to little o'l me back then, that stuck with me until recently when I had to move it in his shed, and sitting on it I thought "huh, You aren't as heavy and as terrifying as I remember you!"
So that was my decision right there, that I needed to do the old man right, and get this bike back together, running, warranted and legal, and get it outside shaking kidneys off their mounts again
Unfortunately, All of the current state knowledge about it, and any work it may need, was all in My dad's head, and I cant go pick his brains to find out about it, so I will be starting with fresh eyes, I need to give it a look over, find a service manual, and see about piecing it back together and getting it complete and running again, so While I will try not go for the spoon feed approach, i may have questions I cant figure out on my own I will spill here if that is alright
Cheers!
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