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Chapter Three of Jim Algar’s Dominator Diary, wherein the engine gets torn down, and the news is… not good. So let’s take the gearbox apart, shall we? With the engine and gearbox on the workbench at the end of Chapter 2, the next step was to tear the engine down to its component parts in…

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Chapter Two of Jim Algar’s Dominator Diary, wherein the classic Norton twin gets naked (small children to leave the room, please), and the cylinder head gets the better of him. Twice… At the end of Chapter One, Black Bart was about to tie Polly Pristine to the railroad tracks…oh, sorry, wrong story. At the end…

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Remember Howard’s Big 4 which was undergoing a mechanical overhaul? We can now show you the photos of it. And David Yeats explains how the Big 4 got its name, and reveals his own collection of Norton singles… We left Howard’s Norton single with a leaking fuel tap, a non-existent regulator, a deceased drive chain…

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Riding a race-replica: Steve Jenkins lets rip on a 1970s JPS Norton – an unusual oldster which gets ridden all year round In 1979 a JPS Norton loitered at a bike show in Walsall. Mick Woolley was wandering around the show with £1800 burning a hole in his pocket. Mick was on his way to…

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Little girls beware; Barry Granger’s Norton Commando is out to get you… Apart from the front brake, Barry Granger has very little to complain about when he thinks about his 1974 Norton Commando Interstate. Bought in 1982 for around £700, Barry sees his Commando as; ‘the last of the hairy-chested bikes. Large, heavy and grunty…

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Jim Algar’s Dominator Diary start here: the first (and hopefully not the last) of a sporadic, irregular series of reports, updates, musings, questions, tirades, victories and defeats as an American neophyte takes on his first classic British bike… Chapter One Wherein I immerse myself in all things Norton, and my newly-acquired Dominator suddenly reveals feet…

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We can’t all be expert spannermen. Howard H reminds us what it’s like to be fixing up a classic bike with little mechanical skill (and even less time)… Have you ever had one of those days in the shed where everything you do goes just right? No, me neither, though I suspect Humbernut might be…

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You know how it’s just… so… easy to click a bid in when you’re visiting an online auction? That’s how Jim Algar transformed a mild midlife crisis into a Featherbed Norton Dommi 99… If I said I always wanted a British bike but things like working, marriage, kids and the like always got in the…

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A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing, they say. Andy Sochanik discovered that no knowledge at all is ideal if you’re looking at a Norton lightweight! Back in 1972, Andy was searching for something cheap and cheerful (although the first item was essential; the second bit would be a bonus), and he ended up…

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