commando frames

Is there any other frames that engine can be put other than Manx.Where can I get a raceing Dunstal or similar?Pete.

I believe Roger Titchmarsh makes seeley frames approved by Colin Seeley. An early Egli from Patrick Godet could be good too.

Egli , Seely , Rickman , Honda :roll: , Er . . . ) Lyster , Domiracer , Matchless , and a few others . . .

All these frames are for the track?I was thinking more of keeping it on the road and comfortable whilst looking good,haveing a swingarm that's attached to the frame so keeping a reasonable rideable ethos and still looking good.New commando looks OK but could do with full cast alloy frame that doesn't look so narrow,looks like frames falling off the engine.Like all Norton's experience is lost in rear wheel hanging on to two rubber mounted bolts and one head steady.rearsteer.P.





Chap name norbsa. is this bsa in Norton or Norton in BSA??????interesting

The guys on this forum are really attached to the isolastic design concept. I think that if I had a standard commando I'd attach two silentbloc bushes to the Z plates, and pick up the ends of the swing arm spindle. I cannot imagine a bike with sideways movement of the back wheel in relation to the steering head,ever handling well. Even with the isolastics properly adjusted, the gear box plates must flex to some extent.

Perhaps you should just take a stock and well fettled Commando for a ride. ?
Would save you posting a lot of BS here.....

And if Peter Williams can lap the IoM on a Commando faster than a Manx did back then, they can't be too bad.

I understand the loyalty that this site has.I have been following and looking up suggestions given by the members and have seen the variety of frames,pistons,conrods,head gaskets,base gaskets,cranks,from Maney,Schmidt to everything else and WOW..DUDE!!!!!!! I just got layer off a trashy delivery job,and I thought I'd go up Norvil,do a belt drive on my mk3,chap,says might need condors cos early condors are week,so I guess I'll go for a bottom end kit,top end kit and maybe look at a cam shaft.Plus gearbox needs sorting cos it won't make second unless at tickover,and it'snever had electric start cos someone swiped th cogs before I got it.So,its been sat in my liveing room for a while.It's been redesigned for about 4years,on paper and eBay and internet this is totally galactic!but I'll go up the Chase to Norvil maybe tomorrow.Hey,I like these since I was 3.Maybe somehow it'll get me back on the road.(just at 3 I didn't know it had rearsteer and I've seen it round Donington!)(WOW)Foolishly I thought it would fit a BSA frame cos they are better looking than a manx,got a swingarm and rubber mounts are rubber mounts right?Everything I've owned vibrates like stink anywaay......could buy a car suppose .And I think downfall of British bikes was shoddy ergonomic design and slap and dash workmanship,not all the other excuses ya see in mags every year before the shows,(shoddy Wolverhampton).....Norvil.....yehhhh......P.

They are English bikes, after all.
If you can find someone to supply good bits, good advice and a good build, they go well.

Read somewhere the other day that H*nda did something like 30 prototypes of the Goldwing6 to find a good design.
Some of us figure that if Nortons had built more than 1 prototype, it might've had a few bugs ironed out...
Ergo's are pretty good, really ?

You been taking 'english' lessons from hobot AND Matt ?!
Remember, a nice combination of words and phrases is what its all about....

Wots that about Rubber Mounted Bolts . ?





Sounds like the sort of thing the Japanese would do . youd better study the drawings / manual.
If you dont understand it .

Don't look very much like road bikes, do they Matt ?

If your not going to keep a Commando as a Commando, why not just buy a new twin cylinder ?
Yamahahaha, Kwikasaki, BMW all make new twins, to name just a few.
100+ hp, with new bike warranty.

Some of them can tackle THE GRAVEL...

'Some things are so bad, that they are good'. Love your commando for what it is. A few weeks ago I was looking at a rusty old combat for $9000. I even seriously considered buying it for a minute - what an idiot ? Luckily, I've got no money so I escaped intact. I now know how alcoholics must feel.

Acotrel I "feel" for ya. Rohan any trouts in that there stream ? Yes to choosing to keep the Comando original looking yet have many "hidden " improvements. Just my style. Unintrusive modern engineerings.

I'm not great on this replying presume it just types in on thread.

Commando 850 mk3,fabulous,bought it about 4 years ago,tax test new tyres,ridding found it needed carbs did 1000 MLS with old carbs,not getting any where,balanceing vertually every week.Must say when balanced it went like a rocket,feeling like a jet engine and I seriously think that it could be risen anywhere with a smile.

It came to motorway and I couldn't keep up with a V-rod,this bothered me,it felt like it needed fuel and I wondered whether the advance was working on boyer.

Got back,fitted new carbs ,found some idiot had tried tentioning fuel cap spring with a bolt and washer,which explains why the engine was running out of go.It is a fact,touch the brake with a full tank and fuel would flood out onto engine and wireing.

So haveing new carbs I tryed starting to balance them.Cylinder must have filled up with stuck(short) needle and it went off like a twelve inched.

Wheeled It into my liveing room,everything to do.I'm just jealous and in dire need of the open road,and that lush sound!!!

Re rubber mounts.Matt
The mounts would just be mounts and cheap.I think the two bikes pictured are fabulous but made specifically for a tall chap(Peter someone) and they look as though the were made on a step.

Also the jap twins don't sound so good and I was sure Ford own Yamaha.A Suzuki srad twin 360 ' shafty with hubcenter front-end and looking like Kat 650 could be as interesting as the new commando 961...I just can't get through to them.P.

Actually, N-V built two prototypes, but they had weird fuel tanks and didn't look like the production version. The frames were the same as the early production bikes. Once the Commando went into production at Plumstead, the experimental guys at Wolverhampton didn't see much of them. We were concentrating on the AJS Stormer and trying to sort out the P-11 handling problem. I left N-V in May of 1968 and moved to Seattle in early July that year.

One of a handfull of fellas who cared enough to get in my face calling me a liar about my fork mods for months on end till he saw the light and made the cheap easy Roadholder mod available to the world. Not that many Cdo owners online but the world supply of Ford 8N & 9N valve springs has been about used up by...
Greg Fauth Norton Bsa <norbsa@hotmail.com>

Some day it will sink in that the very best handling motorcycle ever created is based on the floppy eared ole Isolastics but tammed with one robust link and two compliant helpers for smooth secure screaming under helmet breath taking hooking up road holding. Can't be too rigid nor too floppy or its just another ordinary dangerous unpredictable motorcycle that takes good athletic ability to control. A really truly Neutral handler is simply refreshing not wearing.