Life Long Norton Obsession

If you have not been totally obsessed with Norton Commandos all your life, you have no right to be in this topic reading anything!

Go read some other crap!!

phil yates said:

If you have not been totally obsessed with Norton Commandos all your life, you have no right to be in this topic reading anything!

Go read some other crap!!

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All right, Phil! You tell them somes of bitches where to go. Right on, Man. All us fellow possessed Nortoneers are with ya 110%.

Sometimes I just sit and look at mine for hours...I wish I could bring it in the bedroom.

It"s winter down there; frozen billabong or hasn't had didgerydoo blown out in a while.

what if you new but did not heed the call till late; gotta be some redemption now matter when. lemme say that having a Norton later in life is sweet tho, mate (term used very loosely here in US) ha. different strokes......

Oh come on now, Commandos didn't exist until I was 11 years old, how could I possibly have a life-long obsession?
However, once exposed to the ever-lasting charms and beauty of our beloved Commando.................
Cheers, Martin

sportsroof said:

Oh come on now, Commandos didn't exist until I was 11 years old, how could I possibly have a life-long obsession?
However, once exposed to the ever-lasting charms and beauty of our beloved Commando.................
Cheers, Martin

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I wanted to get in the first information of my own topic.
But ran out of time as the Commando was calling "time for the pub and let's get going".

Hobot is a complete wimp.
I was sent in here by my team to beat his in every category.
Nonsense. Crap. Unrelated Norton Stories. Abusive and Unpredictable Behaviour.

I couldn't get close on the category: Broken Pidgeon English.
So I never bothered trying. But from my PM's, I believe I have thrashed him in all other categories. And post numbers he can only dream of.
Jerry, when you get back tomorrow from your endless impossible business commitments, I want that crown.
And that avatar of me Commando riding naked with it proudly on my head!!

But hobot is also an obsessive determined and uncontrollable Commando lover. I don't know at what age his sickness was diagnosed but is a common illness shared by all of us. In hobot's (and probably all of us) case, it will remain with him for the rest of his insane life which is bound to be only a very short time given the nature of his bezerk riding. BMX on a Norton.

Not an awful lot of Norton Commando owners/riders only thought of getting one due a mid life crisis. Those who did, a warm welcome to enlightenment.

Unlike a very large number of Harley riders 40plus who grew fat and decided they had better jam a black matt helmet onto their fat round heads and ride down the road on a brand new 200 plus year old motorcycle looking like they were lying back in a warm bath (god knows who they dreamed with), often in very large numbers looking just like the next f…er, Norton owners never had such a desire.

I actually once had a ride on a Harley and it was a lot of fun. I'd like to try the Sporster.

Norton owners have many and varied reasons for being such, all valid.
For me it was a passion after my father told me if I didn't get interested in British motorbikes, he would thrash the living daylights out of me, and my younger brother, also learn to fly, preferable with the airforce. My older brother got away with a piece of Jap crap and flying around the backyard pretending to be a fat pidgeon. But Dave was a lot bigger than dad. Sadly Dave is no more.

I am sorry I've been such a pain in the arse/ass in here. I've so much enjoyed all conversations and technical information way way more than I knew. It's been a great time.


But I ain't goin anywhere.
I like it in here!!

And even hobot thinks I'm insane.
That's worth two crowns!!

phil yates said:

Hobot is a complete wimp.
I was sent in here by my team to beat his in every category.
Nonsense. Crap. Unrelated Norton Stories. Abusive and Unpredictable Behaviour.

I couldn't get close on the category: Broken Pidgeon English.

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Hey it's easy you just type whatever comes to mind and don't use any puctua hey look; cows! now there yousee what i mean it's easy when i was a young lad my dad had a '66 triumph that was a beautiful sky blue that i would steal some gas from the tickler then drip it onto the hot sidewalk in hopes that it would explode from the heat its funny how some minds work but i really thought it would but when my cousin tried to start the BSA and it kicked back but i could start it that was funny i like bacon

Why does it have to be just Commandos as I have owned my 850 since new but over time I have impoved it to be a better handling bike with out all the crap that can happen with Commando frames, Isolastics for one thing, was the best thing I ever got rid of, improvements to the motor, you might knock me what I have done to my Norton, putting it in a Featherbed frame and I don't care but I have been processed with Nortons for all my life, so I think I have more experances with Commandos and Featherbed Norton, but they are all Nortons and I have built up a few Commandos for friends, I know the insides and out for Commando motors and gearboxs as well as a few Domies, I don't work on any other bikes and i do own a new Triumph and not to many owners can say they have owned the same bike for 39 years now and still ride it anytime of the year.

Ashley

Well I think we can all rest easy now that Phil likes it here.
Last week his finger was poised and trembling over the forum Doomsday button, the one labeled "COMBAT DETONATE", but I suspect his relaxed hand has now slumped away, the brain fuzzy with warm feelings has forgotten what the button is for or that it even exists.


Glen

worntorn said:

Well I think we can all rest easy now that Phil likes it here.
Last week his finger was poised and trembling over the forum Doomsday button, the one labeled "COMBAT DETONATE", but I suspect his relaxed hand has now slumped away, the brain fuzzy with warm feelings has forgotten what the button is for or that it even exists.


Glen

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Are you talking about the MkIII green button?
Or the bright red forum instant destruction button?
I haven't forgotten what either button is for.
And not afraid to use either.
Red button is currently in for repair.

Nater_Potater said:

phil yates said:

Hobot is a complete wimp.
I was sent in here by my team to beat his in every category.
Nonsense. Crap. Unrelated Norton Stories. Abusive and Unpredictable Behaviour.

I couldn't get close on the category: Broken Pidgeon English.

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Hey it's easy you just type whatever comes to mind and don't use any puctua hey look; cows! now there yousee what i mean it's easy when i was a young lad my dad had a '66 triumph that was a beautiful sky blue that i would steal some gas from the tickler then drip it onto the hot sidewalk in hopes that it would explode from the heat its funny how some minds work but i really thought it would but when my cousin tried to start the BSA and it kicked back but i could start it that was funny i like bacon

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You've been at the Mittagong Hotel before haven't you?
Makes perfect sense to me.

ashman said:

Why does it have to be just Commandos as I have owned my 850 since new but over time I have impoved it to be a better handling bike with out all the crap that can happen with Commando frames, Isolastics for one thing, was the best thing I ever got rid of, improvements to the motor, you might knock me what I have done to my Norton, putting it in a Featherbed frame and I don't care but I have been processed with Nortons for all my life, so I think I have more experances with Commandos and Featherbed Norton, but they are all Nortons and I have built up a few Commandos for friends, I know the insides and out for Commando motors and gearboxs as well as a few Domies, I don't work on any other bikes and i do own a new Triumph and not to many owners can say they have owned the same bike for 39 years now and still ride it anytime of the year.

Ashley

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I agree Ashley.
I also think those Harley guys I was so rude about have every reason to do what they do and like.
Once, in the heady days of the Commando as fastest bike on the road, motorcycling represented individuality and freedom. And still does maybe now to a slightly lesser degree. In my time, you almost never saw old farts like me on a motorbike.
It don't really matter a crap about the machine. It's what you love, like your partner.
As my good mate hobot would say, live it while you can enjoy it, any of us (or all of us if I hit the red button) could be gone tomorrow.

The Mittagong pub been pissed there in the sixties, seventies and on but the real one is the Bong Bong Picnic Races, can never remember the trip home but me and the bike ended up in the garage together ( pre random breath nazies)

THE MITTAGONG HOTEL
Centre Of The Universe

Last night Vince rocked in and asked do you allow strangers to take photos of our Norton?
Somehow it belongs to us all that the pub.
Looking outside the from window, I saw a pack of excited blokes in a group snapping pictures with cameras flashing.
I asked Vince who the hell are they?
The friggin paparazzi??

Chili said:

The Mittagong pub been pissed there in the sixties, seventies and on but the real one is the Bong Bong Picnic Races, can never remember the trip home but me and the bike ended up in the garage together ( pre random breath nazies)

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Gotta be a member to get in to Bong Bong.
Full of would be if they could be's in my opinion.
I went once.
Not a Norton on the track to be seen all day.
I was expecting it to be the Southern Highlands version of the Castrol Six Hour.
Just a load of horses shitting everywhere.