Hibernating

We're having an unusually harsh winter here in Colorado and I haven't been able to ride the Norton since mid December. It's all tucked away in the garage now, winterized and waiting for spring. Unlike last winter, I don't have any major work planned for this winter.

I do have a couple of small projects: building up a new front wheel and building a spare engine.

For the wheel, I have an original Dunlop steel rim and a hub that's nicely polished and fitted with sealed bearings. I just need to find a little time to take it to the wheel builder to get built up. I was going to do it myself, but the Norton front disk wheel is built with a large offset to accomodate the disk rotor and I'm told it's tricky to get right. So I decided that's a job for a professional.

The motor has a rebuilt and balanced crank, new superblends, new big end shells, and I'm going with a WebCam 12 grind. That's hotter than stock but not as radical as the Combat cam. I also sent the cases out to have the breather relocation and oil scavenging modifications performed. Brown dropped them off yesterday so all I need to do now is get the cam and I can put it back together.

Otherwise, just some routine maintenance to do at spring startup.