Resurrecting A 1953 Norton Dominator 88 - Part 2
Image: Todd Ingermanson
In Part 1 of "How Would You Resurrect A 1953 Norton Dominator 88?", California bicycle framebuilder Todd Ingermanson described how he obtained a basket case from New Zealand and the steps he's taken over the past 18 years to breathe new life into a highly desirable machine. Here's Part 2.
“While this list might seem fairly short, all these disparate parts needed one, two, three, or a half dozen parts made to have them mate up to the other parts they were attaching to,” Ingermanson explained. “I became a one-man adapter-making machine. There was a lot of re-doing things that a step or two after completion were found to be in the way of—or somehow otherwise interfering with—another part. It took four attempts to get the rearset placement correct. It took three rebuilds of the gearbox to figure out that a re-pop kickstart pinion was made incorrectly and was locking up the gearbox.”