| Diagram | Fig. 15 — Front Wheel and Brake (Disc Type) · ref 18 |
| Subsystem | wheels |
| Listed in parts books | 1975 |
Norton Nipple, Spoke
A spoke nipple for Norton wire wheels, used at both the front wheel/brake and rear disc wheel assemblies.
This is a spoke nipple, the small threaded fitting that connects the end of a wheel spoke to the rim and lets you draw the spoke up to proper tension. It's a Norton part, showing up in the catalog under both the front wheel and brake figure and the rear wheel (disc type) figure, which tells us it's a shared component across those wheel assemblies rather than something unique to one end of the bike.
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The catalog listing ties this part number to the 1975 model year, and it appears twice in our records, once for each wheel figure. If you're rebuilding or re-tensioning a wheel and need nipples, it's worth ordering enough to do the whole job rather than replacing just a few, since a mismatched set can throw off your truing.
If you're working from an older Norton parts book and the number doesn't match what's printed there, give us a call and we'll square away which wheel and which era your bike falls into before you order.
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