Commando Choppers please

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Hehe, kraakevik, brought ya out the closet on this post.
I've ridden some choppers and loved the way they made me
feel on the fly, if not their parking lot handling.

Choppers are only for the 1%'rs among us, not for general
consumption or daily commuting with cargo.
Choppers are for those with restless male minds-hormones that must
create, babies or un-realistic but satisfying novelties.

Can't be at race speeds on the time, so why not enjoy
grinning at all the sensations concerning choppers.

hobot
 
I've actually had a Featherbed or Commando chopper since the mid-Sixties in Africa when I outgrew the British bikes designed for lighter lads a foot or so shorter. The Combat I bought in '72 currently has four-inch-over tubes in front and two-inch risers in back--Rodman, Pippen or Jordan would find it fills in the inseam just fine.


Tim Kraakevik
kraakevik@voyager.net
Three Commando choppers
 
It make not mean much to yo'all but I was all eyes on edge of my seat
to see the fella pulling around a barn corner on lumpy loose dusty surface
without issue.

So yeah I've an itch for a righteous molded frame hard tail raked
brakeless flip flop front end, cables and wires hidden in frame
and ape hanger bars and exhaust as high as the sissy bar with a real
grenade as cross brace and painted up with Emma Peel motifs
and tiny tank like the pin head grinning at the sensations and
by stander reactions. Squaty HD 16" x wide rim white wall tire
hard tail with tag hung off the axle would just about finish off
hear attack prone at rallys.
Commando Choppers please


I know I'm on right track with this last one, my S.O. took one
glance and laid down law of No More Motorcycles, In Living Room.

hobot
 
I can't imagine the choppers really have nice handling abilities. It scares me just to get on a M/C to start with, especially with a small bike like the Norton, I guess that is the passion.

hobot, is that a postal facility, sure looks like one of their loading docks?

Dave
69S
 
Lots of people swear by a super long front end. Say it's a super comfortable ride. Like sugarbear's long springers.
 
I've ridden righteous real deal HD chopper in its era and once out of
parking lots, its a delightful self tracking steady as she goes
Throne on Wheels Lounge chair. No doubt about it, most raked
choppers are good riders cruisers touring, if not scrambles
and chicane racers. Portable-wearable art work basically.
Don't need to ride fast or risky to be cool on a chopper, just calm
and collected cool as a cucumber with arm pits exposed
spread eagle to the future.

Sure does look post office construction. I put it up on my desktop.
Just something about the real worldness of the fella glazing
at a not too trashy not to fancy groin throbber.

Once in a while a real nice DIY chopper come by I stop
and comment and photo and let the smiling dude know his
rig's vibes do reach out and touch us.

Commando Choppers please

hobot
 
Whoa got me a bunch of double takes on the blow up review.
Skull shifter, cannon ball bomb oil tank, under seat filter,
Satan Horn header and engraved rocker covers, what's not
to love with such un-Norton insulting art pieces.

hobot
 
hobot said:
Whoa got me a bunch of double takes on the blow up review.
Skull shifter, cannon ball bomb oil tank, under seat filter,
Satan Horn header and engraved rocker covers, what's not
to love with such un-Norton insulting art pieces.

hobot
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:lol: But where does he keep the oil in that thing. I don't see a filler cap on the backbone and that cannon ball tank doesn't have the volume.

As much as I hated my Harley, it was a blast to drive in town. 80lb/ft of torque at a twist of the wrist to spin the rear at light changes, quick runs through the box and stop for the next light, loads of fun, or mellow out and ride the torque.
Chopped Norton with all that British torque could be nice.
The snob in me hates this bike, but strip the shit off it, put some nice wheels , pipes, etc....fit the ergos to ride and you could have a real low CoG bike for stoplight drags.

Will
 
Oil is in the black round vintage bomb under the seat.
Just noticed he's jack shafted to take drive chain off the RH side
to clear a wide tire. Brass knuckle kicker in another excessive touch.

I'm actually kinda addicted to tire spin take off, but not since
I had my lowered drag bike P!!. Once in great while I ride
with HD in town parades, some of them tend to spin rear
a few yards just for fun taking off from stops or creeping speed.
Expect for ground clearance a familiar big twin rider is
very hard to hang with as they can launch out apexes.
Lighter Norton with massaged or boosted engine like
Rod Rayborn has planned would be a treat.

hobot
 
I have no interest in owning one but I've always liked the look of a well done chopper or bobber or a "cut down". I think thats what they called them in the fourties. May because I was a kid in the 60"s and rode on the back of my sisters boyfriends real clean Triumph chopper. A hard tail of course that he, my sister and her 80 lb dog road 40 miles to visit us. But for some reason the Norton motor just never looks right in one to me. Maybe it's a numbers thing because most Triumph and Harley customs don't look that nice. But there is always that one in twenty that looks oh so cool.
 
hobot said:
..... Brass knuckle kicker in another excessive touch......

hobot
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The brass kicker pedal, (not brass knuckle, more like bicycle pedal), is great for spreading the load across the foot. Means kicking wearing a pear of vans wont result in broken foot if it kicks back. Good mod for those that don't like to wear boots all the time. The skinny kicker on my 640 single put a whole in the bottom of my redwing and gave me a limp for a week when it kicked back two years ago.

Will
 
Coco said:
britbike220 said:
For the love of god, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Oh yes. A properly built Norton chopper is a good thing.

Twin engine Commando chop:

Commando Choppers please
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Yes it is. This one speaks to me.
More of a drag bike than a chop. I like it.
 
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