Commando Choppers please
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The Chopper emerged from the mood disorders of the '60's when sex was safe and motorcycles dangerous. I lucked TF out when I left home for school, the hippie movement was in full swing and balling was just friendliest thing to do. Ah the smell of SDS bombs and fires in the morning drifting across campus with the screaming crowds...
1960s in the United States: 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969.
1960 - U-2 incident, wherein a CIA U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace
1960 - Greensboro sit-ins, sparked by four African American college students refusing to move from a segregated lunch counter, spurs similar actions and increases sentiment in the Civil Rights Movement.
1960 - Civil Rights Act of 1960, establishing federal inspection of local voter registration polls and penalties for those attempting to obstruct someone's attempt to register to vote or actually vote
1960 - National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam formed
1960 - United States presidential election, 1960 (John F. Kennedy elected president)
1961 - US breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba
1961 - Eisenhower gives celebrated "military–industrial complex" farewell address
1961 - John F. Kennedy becomes President
1961 - 23rd Amendment, which grants electors to the District of Columbia
1961 - Peace Corps established.
1961 - Alliance for Progress
1961 - Bay of Pigs Invasion
1961 - Alan Shepard pilots the Freedom 7 capsule to become the first American in space
1961 - Trade embargo on Cuba
1961 - Berlin Crisis of 1961
1961 - Vietnam War officially begins with 900 military advisors landing in Saigon
1961 - OPEC formed
1962 - Trade Expansion Act
1962 - John Glenn orbits the Earth, becoming the first American to do so
1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis, which becomes the closest nuclear confrontation (as of 2010) involving the U.S. and USSR
1962 - Baker v. Carr, enabling federal courts to intervene in and to decide reapportionment cases
1962 - Engel v. Vitale, which determines that it is unconstitutional for state officials to compose an official school prayer and require its recitation in public schools
1962 - Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
1962 - Marilyn Monroe dies of an apparent overdose from acute barbiturate poisoning at 36.
Kennedy's motorcade on November 22, 1963
1963 - Bob Dylan and Columbia Records release The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (his second studio album), which becomes a classic
1963 - Atomic Test Ban Treaty
1963 - March on Washington; Martin Luther King, Jr. "I have a dream" speech
1963 - "The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan published, sparking the women's liberation movement
1963 - President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas; Lyndon Johnson becomes President. The man accused of assassinating President Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, is shot and killed as he is led to jail by Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby. The assassination marks the first 24-hour coverage of a major news event by the major networks.
1964 - The Beatles arrive in the U.S., and subsequent appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, mark the start of the British Invasion (or, an increased number of rock and pop performers from the United Kingdom who became popular around the world, including the U.S.)
1964 - Tonkin Gulf incident; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
1964 - 24th Amendment, prohibiting both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax
1964 - President Johnson proposes the Great Society, whose social reforms were aimed at the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. New major spending programs that addressed education, medical care, urban problems, and transportation were launched later in the 1960s.
1964 - Economic Opportunity Act
1964 - Civil Rights Act of 1964, outlawing major forms of discrimination against blacks and women, and ended racial segregation in the United States
1964 - Panama Canal Zone riots
1964 - United States presidential election, 1964
1965 - President Lyndon B. Johnson escalates the United States military involvement in the Vietnam War
1965 - Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a civil rights activist group, led the first of several anti-war marches in Washington, D.C., with about 25,000 protesters
1965 - Immigration Act of 1965
1965 - Voting Rights Act
1965 - Medicaid and Medicare enacted
1965 - Higher Education Act of 1965
1965 - Malcolm X an African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist is assassinated in Harlem, New York
1965 - Watts Riot in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, lasts six days and is the first of several major urban riots due to racial issues.
1966 - Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) established
1966 - Department of Transportation created
1966 - National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act
1966 - Miranda v. Arizona establishes "Miranda rights" for suspects
1966 - Feminist group National Organization for Women (NOW) formed
1966 – The three major American television networks—NBC, CBS and ABC—have full color lineups in their prime-time schedules.
1966- Heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali (formerly known as Cassius Clay) declared himself a conscientious objector and refused to go to war. According to a writer for Sports Illustrated, the governor of Illinois called Ali "disgusting" and the governor of Maine said that Ali "should be held in utter contempt by every patriotic American."[1] In 1967 Ali was sentenced to 5 years in prison for draft evasion, but his conviction was later overturned on appeal. In addition, he was stripped of his title and banned from professional boxing for more than three years.
1967 - Jack Ruby died of a pulmonary embolism, secondary to bronchogenic carcinoma (lung cancer), on January 3, 1967 at Parkland Hospital, where Oswald had died and where President Kennedy had been pronounced dead after his assassination.
1967 – The first Super Bowl is played, with the Green Bay Packers defeating the Kansas City Chiefs 35–10.
1967 – Detroit race riot precipitates the "Long Hot Summer of 1967", when race riots erupt in 159 cities nationwide.
1967 - The "Summer of Love" embodies the growing counterculture, with the Monterey Pop Festival and Scott McKenzie's "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" among the highlights.
1967 - 25th Amendment establishes succession to the Presidency and procedures for filling a vacancy in the office of the Vice President
1967 - American Samoa becomes self-governing under a new constitution
1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy assassinated two months apart
1968 - The National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam launches the Tet Offensive
1968 - Civil Rights Act of 1968, commonly known as the Fair Housing Act
1968 - Shirley Chisholm becomes first black woman elected to U.S. Congress
1968 - Police clashes with anti-war protesters in Chicago, outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention
1968 - U.S. signs Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
1968 - United States presidential election, 1968 (Richard Nixon elected president)
1969 - Richard Nixon is inaugurated as President
1969 - "Vietnamization" begins
1969 - Stonewall riots in New York City marks the start of the modern gay rights movement in the U.S.
1969 - Chappaquiddick incident, where Sen. Edward M. Kennedy drives off a bridge on his way home from a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, killing his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne
1969 - Neil Armstrong walks on the Moon
1969 - The Woodstock Festival in White Lake, New York becomes an enormously successful musical and cultural gathering; a milestone for the baby-boom generation
1969 - Warren E. Burger appointed Chief Justice of the United States to replace Earl Warren
1969 - U.S. bombs North Vietnamese positions in Cambodia and Laos
1969 - Sesame Street premieres on National Educational Television. e
1960s in the United States: 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969.
1960 - U-2 incident, wherein a CIA U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace
1960 - Greensboro sit-ins, sparked by four African American college students refusing to move from a segregated lunch counter, spurs similar actions and increases sentiment in the Civil Rights Movement.
1960 - Civil Rights Act of 1960, establishing federal inspection of local voter registration polls and penalties for those attempting to obstruct someone's attempt to register to vote or actually vote
1960 - National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam formed
1960 - United States presidential election, 1960 (John F. Kennedy elected president)
1961 - US breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba
1961 - Eisenhower gives celebrated "military–industrial complex" farewell address
1961 - John F. Kennedy becomes President
1961 - 23rd Amendment, which grants electors to the District of Columbia
1961 - Peace Corps established.
1961 - Alliance for Progress
1961 - Bay of Pigs Invasion
1961 - Alan Shepard pilots the Freedom 7 capsule to become the first American in space
1961 - Trade embargo on Cuba
1961 - Berlin Crisis of 1961
1961 - Vietnam War officially begins with 900 military advisors landing in Saigon
1961 - OPEC formed
1962 - Trade Expansion Act
1962 - John Glenn orbits the Earth, becoming the first American to do so
1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis, which becomes the closest nuclear confrontation (as of 2010) involving the U.S. and USSR
1962 - Baker v. Carr, enabling federal courts to intervene in and to decide reapportionment cases
1962 - Engel v. Vitale, which determines that it is unconstitutional for state officials to compose an official school prayer and require its recitation in public schools
1962 - Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
1962 - Marilyn Monroe dies of an apparent overdose from acute barbiturate poisoning at 36.
Kennedy's motorcade on November 22, 1963
1963 - Bob Dylan and Columbia Records release The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (his second studio album), which becomes a classic
1963 - Atomic Test Ban Treaty
1963 - March on Washington; Martin Luther King, Jr. "I have a dream" speech
1963 - "The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan published, sparking the women's liberation movement
1963 - President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas; Lyndon Johnson becomes President. The man accused of assassinating President Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, is shot and killed as he is led to jail by Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby. The assassination marks the first 24-hour coverage of a major news event by the major networks.
1964 - The Beatles arrive in the U.S., and subsequent appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, mark the start of the British Invasion (or, an increased number of rock and pop performers from the United Kingdom who became popular around the world, including the U.S.)
1964 - Tonkin Gulf incident; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
1964 - 24th Amendment, prohibiting both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax
1964 - President Johnson proposes the Great Society, whose social reforms were aimed at the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. New major spending programs that addressed education, medical care, urban problems, and transportation were launched later in the 1960s.
1964 - Economic Opportunity Act
1964 - Civil Rights Act of 1964, outlawing major forms of discrimination against blacks and women, and ended racial segregation in the United States
1964 - Panama Canal Zone riots
1964 - United States presidential election, 1964
1965 - President Lyndon B. Johnson escalates the United States military involvement in the Vietnam War
1965 - Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a civil rights activist group, led the first of several anti-war marches in Washington, D.C., with about 25,000 protesters
1965 - Immigration Act of 1965
1965 - Voting Rights Act
1965 - Medicaid and Medicare enacted
1965 - Higher Education Act of 1965
1965 - Malcolm X an African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist is assassinated in Harlem, New York
1965 - Watts Riot in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, lasts six days and is the first of several major urban riots due to racial issues.
1966 - Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) established
1966 - Department of Transportation created
1966 - National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act
1966 - Miranda v. Arizona establishes "Miranda rights" for suspects
1966 - Feminist group National Organization for Women (NOW) formed
1966 – The three major American television networks—NBC, CBS and ABC—have full color lineups in their prime-time schedules.
1966- Heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali (formerly known as Cassius Clay) declared himself a conscientious objector and refused to go to war. According to a writer for Sports Illustrated, the governor of Illinois called Ali "disgusting" and the governor of Maine said that Ali "should be held in utter contempt by every patriotic American."[1] In 1967 Ali was sentenced to 5 years in prison for draft evasion, but his conviction was later overturned on appeal. In addition, he was stripped of his title and banned from professional boxing for more than three years.
1967 - Jack Ruby died of a pulmonary embolism, secondary to bronchogenic carcinoma (lung cancer), on January 3, 1967 at Parkland Hospital, where Oswald had died and where President Kennedy had been pronounced dead after his assassination.
1967 – The first Super Bowl is played, with the Green Bay Packers defeating the Kansas City Chiefs 35–10.
1967 – Detroit race riot precipitates the "Long Hot Summer of 1967", when race riots erupt in 159 cities nationwide.
1967 - The "Summer of Love" embodies the growing counterculture, with the Monterey Pop Festival and Scott McKenzie's "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" among the highlights.
1967 - 25th Amendment establishes succession to the Presidency and procedures for filling a vacancy in the office of the Vice President
1967 - American Samoa becomes self-governing under a new constitution
1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy assassinated two months apart
1968 - The National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam launches the Tet Offensive
1968 - Civil Rights Act of 1968, commonly known as the Fair Housing Act
1968 - Shirley Chisholm becomes first black woman elected to U.S. Congress
1968 - Police clashes with anti-war protesters in Chicago, outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention
1968 - U.S. signs Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
1968 - United States presidential election, 1968 (Richard Nixon elected president)
1969 - Richard Nixon is inaugurated as President
1969 - "Vietnamization" begins
1969 - Stonewall riots in New York City marks the start of the modern gay rights movement in the U.S.
1969 - Chappaquiddick incident, where Sen. Edward M. Kennedy drives off a bridge on his way home from a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, killing his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne
1969 - Neil Armstrong walks on the Moon
1969 - The Woodstock Festival in White Lake, New York becomes an enormously successful musical and cultural gathering; a milestone for the baby-boom generation
1969 - Warren E. Burger appointed Chief Justice of the United States to replace Earl Warren
1969 - U.S. bombs North Vietnamese positions in Cambodia and Laos
1969 - Sesame Street premieres on National Educational Television. e
willh said:That could be saved by losing that freaky big seat, awful tank, weird rear plunger setup, deraking the front and fitting shorter forks, going back to mid controls, etclcrken said:...
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I think I've seen this bike in person, I'm pretty sure that the freaky big seat is actually the gas tank and the awful tank is the airbox. I wonder where the oil tank is. Not exactly pretty, but kind of interesting technically.
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I can only appreciate the mental emotional state and/or circumstances that lead to this one but boys gotta create something if not babies, even if useless or ughly, like some kids too. Still cleaned up I could stand ridding it through a rally gathering just to watch extreme reactions quivering as it passed by bouncing on the extended front. Deeper reflection is its expression that life has no reason nor purpose so anything goes.
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I had no id there could be this many Commando Chopper hiding in the closets, they just keep popping up right and left, might be a movement like Arlo sang...
http://corvallis.craigslist.org/mcy/3848884899.html
Norton 750 Commando Chopper. This old school scooter has all the charm and eccentricities that you would expect from a 43 year old bike. It runs strong and loud, marks it's spot, and draws a crowd when parked. Kick and Curse start only. This bike is a blast from the past to ride but probably not a good beginners bike. Sorry no test pilots. The price is a CASH price, No checks, No Paypal, No money orders. Interesting Bike or Car trades considered but please send pictures and the price that you value your trade for.
Richard
norton triumph BSA chopper harley hd project trade
http://corvallis.craigslist.org/mcy/3848884899.html
Norton 750 Commando Chopper. This old school scooter has all the charm and eccentricities that you would expect from a 43 year old bike. It runs strong and loud, marks it's spot, and draws a crowd when parked. Kick and Curse start only. This bike is a blast from the past to ride but probably not a good beginners bike. Sorry no test pilots. The price is a CASH price, No checks, No Paypal, No money orders. Interesting Bike or Car trades considered but please send pictures and the price that you value your trade for.
Richard
norton triumph BSA chopper harley hd project trade
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HOK candy blue fade over silver flake. Been busy!
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She Even matches!
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Not a Norton, but a relic from the '70s. I thought I might restore it, but it is fun to ride as is. If I had ridden one of these back then, it would have been guaranteed that I would be pulled over by the cops.
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Thanks for the trip down memory lane from a child of the '60s. Having a draft card and watching the body counts on CBS new every night made me think my days were numbered. Live in the moment.
Choppers started with post WWII bobbers and took off after Easy Rider (which inspired me to take a road trip from Boston to Mardi Gras and the southwest. Blacks were part of the chopper movement and the Easy Rider bikes were actually built by a couple of black chopper builders. In those days, Harley riders were generally tough guys, but I got along with them well enough to be invited to join a "club". Triumph riders were cool (Clint Eastwood, Bob Dylan, Steve McQueen, etc. and safe around the Harley riders. Nortons were ridden by somewhat more sophisticated hippy-ish types. During the long New England winters, we didn't have much to do except work on our bikes; some stock bikes emerged in the spring as pretty radical choppers.
Those were the days when motorcyclists were treated as bad as blacks or hippies. I remember when some bars would refuse to let us in because we arrived on a motorcycle or because we were just wearing a leather jacket. Cops would pull us over for no good reason and ticket us for riding an "unsafe vehicle" or some such nonsense. Tape a dentist's mirror and a squeeze horn to the handlebars and you were street legal but cops could always find something to ticket you for. I got ticketed for "excessive noise" because I was passing through the rich folks' neighborhood (I was stopped in front of General Alexander Haig's mansion). Cops could search you in those days for contraband without probable cause, so you had to be creative about hiding your stash.
Ah, the good old days.
Now that I am old and gray, I don't think I could get busted if I tried.
Choppers started with post WWII bobbers and took off after Easy Rider (which inspired me to take a road trip from Boston to Mardi Gras and the southwest. Blacks were part of the chopper movement and the Easy Rider bikes were actually built by a couple of black chopper builders. In those days, Harley riders were generally tough guys, but I got along with them well enough to be invited to join a "club". Triumph riders were cool (Clint Eastwood, Bob Dylan, Steve McQueen, etc. and safe around the Harley riders. Nortons were ridden by somewhat more sophisticated hippy-ish types. During the long New England winters, we didn't have much to do except work on our bikes; some stock bikes emerged in the spring as pretty radical choppers.
Those were the days when motorcyclists were treated as bad as blacks or hippies. I remember when some bars would refuse to let us in because we arrived on a motorcycle or because we were just wearing a leather jacket. Cops would pull us over for no good reason and ticket us for riding an "unsafe vehicle" or some such nonsense. Tape a dentist's mirror and a squeeze horn to the handlebars and you were street legal but cops could always find something to ticket you for. I got ticketed for "excessive noise" because I was passing through the rich folks' neighborhood (I was stopped in front of General Alexander Haig's mansion). Cops could search you in those days for contraband without probable cause, so you had to be creative about hiding your stash.
Ah, the good old days.
Now that I am old and gray, I don't think I could get busted if I tried.
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Thanks Chris for the deeper flavors from a survivor of the era . Make Peace Not War brother. This is the image Chris meant to flash us back with. I gotta start giving back peace signs from the cycle lazy arm drop wave - instead of tugging on imaginary railroad steam whislte-truck air horn chain-cord. Hawaiian wave off is cool too.
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Thanks. This was a free sticker in a magazine; homage to Barry Sheene who had one of these on his Suzuki.
christulin said:
Made me remember, I turned 18 in 1975, my draft number was 365 - only jackpot I ever won. Draft wound way down by then. My cousins were older, one had number 7, I think, he went to college, got a deferment. Those were crazy days in the US.
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Inbetween SDS riots and bomb scares by someone just wanting out of an exam I was pensive as my lottery # 1st yr was 84 and next yr 124 so thought about military flight school but how to shoot women and children by not just leading em as much, put me off so ended up more in Capt America camp.
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