grandpaul
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Take a look at this exhaust mount
The bloke has youth on his side and I hope he learns and grows
But jeez it's enough to make me cry looking at it !!!
Cringing from the start. I couldn't even get to the Norton part.
Take a look at this exhaust mount
The bloke has youth on his side and I hope he learns and grows
But jeez it's enough to make me cry looking at it !!!
Yeah, it was painful for a well seasoned brain. While doing a lot of skipping ahead I think I actually said when are you going to shut the fu-ck up and get to the point out loud.Cringing from the start. I couldn't even get to the Norton part.
Used to see this all the time at the shop. Cracked pipes and had to explain why you can't solid mount pipes on a Norton. The hard part was the fact that most of them didn't get it!Oh I skipped through it
It's around halfway to three quarters through where he welds a boss straight on to the fish tail silencers
And the bolts them rigidly to the commando Z plates
Really!!!!Used to see this all the time at the shop. Cracked pipes and had to explain why you can't solid mount pipes on a Norton. The hard part was the fact that most of them didn't get it!
Only Commandos have rubber mounted exhaust, what about all the non isolastic Norton models that were hard mounted, I have seen more Commando header pipes cracked as well wore out the screw in flanges threads, my 850 in the Featherbed frame has had solid mount exhaust for over 42 years now and not one crack, each exhaust has only one mounting bolt on the rear muffler and the screw in flange at the motor, I still have the original threads in the flange, I don't even have locking devices for the flange as they never come lose.Used to see this all the time at the shop. Cracked pipes and had to explain why you can't solid mount pipes on a Norton. The hard part was the fact that most of them didn't get it!
I think the point is he has fixed ex mounts in an isolastic mount engineOnly Commandos have rubber mounted exhaust, what about all the non isolastic Norton models that were hard mounted, I have seen more Commando header pipes cracked as well wore out the screw in flanges threads, my 850 in the Featherbed frame has had solid mount exhaust for over 42 years now and not one crack, each exhaust has only one mounting bolt on the rear muffler and the screw in flange at the motor, I still have the original threads in the flange, I don't even have locking devices for the flange as they never come lose.
So really they did get it.
Ashley
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I was commenting on can't solid mount pipes on a Norton as I do know Commandos are all rubber mounted and have seen many headers on Commando with cracked headers, mine cracked after 3 years from new around where the balance pipe fits.Used to see this all the time at the shop. Cracked pipes and had to explain why you can't solid mount pipes on a Norton. The hard part was the fact that most of them didn't get it!
with matching brown gripsAt least the guy hasn’t put a Brown seat on it (yet)
A brown pillion seat surely has its virtue
Not enough padding to be virtuous.
I have one of those $100 HF ones, and carried my ZRX1200 on it with no worries. 485 pounds. Loading it up there was the hard part, getting it off was not quite as dodgy.That's an interesting bike rack, one or other of my lighter bikes would probably fit well. Is it home made? I wonder what the weight carrying capacity might be and about the owners experiences of using it.
TIA, Steve