MikeM said:Perhaps its interesting information for some of us new members.
MikeM said:Perhaps its interesting information for some of us new members.
Rohan said:And perhaps what some folks don't know here is that he cross posts all this to other lists.
I'm a bit upset to hear he's running around on us. Seriously though, if he's cross posting your comments then all of his advice can't be bad.?
As for keeping in the spirit of the thread topic I must say I can't recall ever seeing a 71' with a front disc. It must have been an exclusive upgrade that few were made aware of??
Snorton74 said:if he's cross posting your comments then all of his advice can't be bad.?
Rohan said:Wasn't the disk brake an option from 1971 ?
Combats didn't get any different cases to the regular bikes that year either.
LAB has been through this with hobot about 10 times now.
Maybe you should take notes Steve,
save us having more groundhog days....
That information is not correct. Model year production started in Sept of the previous year. My current combat was later with 201881 and mfg Dec'71. So by that time would assume 1881 Commandos had been produced in 1971 to 1972 model year spec. Actually there is over lap as 151673 to 151703 were mfg'd between 7 Oct 71 and 14 Nov 71. I have a copy of that production record page.Rohan said:The Norton history books say that the Combat was announced in Jan 1972,
and the factory numbers started from 200,000 in Jan 1972 too.
So was the factory stockpiling them for 3 months prior to the announcement,
or was the announcement 3 months after they started selling them and numbering them like that.
??
I'm sure we've had this discussion before,
but now I wasn't taking notes.
The history books also say the disk brake was now a std fitting - for 1972.
Implying that the optional disk brake mentioned some places was pre 1972
??
Rohan said:The Norton history books say that the Combat was announced in Jan 1972,
and the factory numbers started from 200,000 in Jan 1972 too.
So was the factory stockpiling them for 3 months prior to the announcement,
or was the announcement 3 months after they started selling them and numbering them like that.
??
I'm sure we've had this discussion before,
but now I wasn't taking notes.
The history books also say the disk brake was now a std fitting - for 1972.
Implying that the optional disk brake mentioned some places was pre 1972
??