Pictures of your Norton 961

Stephen_Spencer said:
200km thrash around the hinterland today and she ran flawlessly - also first ride with the shorts fitted. Who knew, size does actually matter and smaller is better! I am now a short pipe convert and will join in with the open derision of longs at every opportunity.

I know, I know, I’m a turncoat!

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A very nice touch with the Made in England sticker on the frame tube. Were your previous mufflers the Norton open longs ? Your top photo makes the 961 engine look like a original Commando !
 
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TonyA said:
A very nice touch with the Made in England sticker on the frame tube. Were your previous mufflers the Norton open longs ? Your top photo makes the 961 engine look like a original Commando !
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Hey Tony,

I had the standard longs on the bike originally but took them to an exhaust specialists and had them gutted, cats cut out etc. Bike had the ecu changed and the open map loaded (back in 2018). Went from running like a dog to being just about spot on, with just a very minor hesitation at about 3k that I have got used to.

Prefer the tone of the shorts and the slight increase in volume over my open longs. I thought I felt a flattening of the mid range slightly with the shorts, that it maybe was’nt pulling quite so hard, or was power delivery just smoothed out slightly - it was hard discern.

Can’t seem to find an angle with the camera where this bike doesn’t look drop dead gorgeous! Makes you sorta forget it’s many foibles.
 
BritTwit said:
Short pipes on a Commando - heresy!
OK, so when are you guys gonna get mullet cuts?
I think that would compliment the shorties.
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Don’t see much wrong with this:oops:!

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Stephen_Spencer said:
Can’t seem to find an angle with the camera where this bike doesn’t look drop dead gorgeous! Makes you sorta forget it’s many foibles.
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No, what it does is, it makes me look at my bike - that I thought was perfectly clean - and think it needs a detail. I’d be lucky if mine looked like that before it left the shed, led alone on or after a 200k trip!

Can you tell me, did you swap the light for a later model? Or is it aftermarket? I think I need the all metal style.

( I already have shorts)
 
Microfibre cloths, WD40, time and beer - oh, and lock the garage door from the inside!;)

Standard headlight shell for a 2015 961 (Mk1) Cafe Racer, all metal and gloss black. Prone to stone chips but does look great, especially on the black/gold colour scheme. There have been a few threads about headlights, changing units and availability- swapping over is pretty simple I understand. I’m sure someone will chip in.

The purists won’t like this much, but I quite like this Union Jack headlight, seen on some Thaiumphs. Die cast grill. Matt though unfortunately.
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cliffa said:
I was talking to a guy with a lovely Goldie at Finchingfield on Sunday. He told me also has a Morgan but the owners are worried about spares as S&S have sold the V twin manufacturing rights to the Far East. ( sounds familiar). The new model will have a 3 cylinder Ford engine under a bonnet.
If anyone is going to the Manx this year he told me the owners club are taking 50. That should be quite a site!!
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We work on them and S&S doesn't support anything but the ECU. Morgan stock piled some stock but the wedge engine is obsolete.
 
Stephen_Spencer said:
I know what you mean FE, Clive has always been a bit behind the times though. Clearly shorts are where it’s at! I strongly suspect that Clive still wears flares:rolleyes:! Keep that to yourself though!
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Just catching up after a long Easter weekend - had a ride down to the Isle of Wight for an overnight stay - sorry but Mr Harley got the wife’s vote for the trip. It is a bit easier two-up around the narrow windy and hilly lanes. 360 miles round trip in a couple of days. Well sorry to disappoint but I have started to take more of an interest in race machinery and have started to appreciate the appropriate siting of stumpy exhausts. Never for my 961 of course.... On the subject of flares has anyone managed to catch a trouser leg on the back brake master cylinder bracket? It is rumoured that someone dropped their new bike at the factory like this.
 
Clive said:
Just catching up after a long Easter weekend - had a ride down to the Isle of Wight for an overnight stay - sorry but Mr Harley got the wife’s vote for the trip. It is a bit easier two-up around the narrow windy and hilly lanes. 360 miles round trip in a couple of days. Well sorry to disappoint but I have started to take more of an interest in race machinery and have started to appreciate the appropriate siting of stumpy exhausts. Never for my 961 of course.... On the subject of flares has anyone managed to catch a trouser leg on the back brake master cylinder bracket? It is rumoured that someone dropped their new bike at the factory like this.
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Oh! Do we have a long untold trouser leg story:eek:? I’d hope that the perpretator threw his body under the bike as is required in such situations!!
 
Caught up wiv my nearest 961 pen friend , coffee & cake thanking you Jon & dashed to this WW2 Pillbox for a photo shot of the bikes , Adisham in Kent this one , but many still left in the south east of UK , I think if Germany had invaded England you would want to be anywhere else but not that in that pillbox with a panzer division coming over the Hill , any ol how check out Jon’s tank , it’s better in the flesh I can affirm.
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Pictures of your Norton 961
Pictures of your Norton 961
Pictures of your Norton 961
Pictures of your Norton 961
 
BLIGHTYBRIT/SF said:
Caught up wiv my nearest 961 pen friend , coffee & cake thanking you Jon & dashed to this WW2 Pillbox for a photo shot of the bikes , Adisham in Kent this one , but many still left in the south east of UK , I think if Germany had invaded England you would want to be anywhere else but not that in that pillbox with a panzer division coming over the Hill , any ol how check out Jon’s tank , it’s better in the flesh I can affirm. View attachment 94554View attachment 94555View attachment 94556View attachment 94557View attachment 94558View attachment 94559View attachment 94560View attachment 94561
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Sweet Guys ! Jon how many liters do you figure the new tank holds ?
 
Wow, looks like an advert for shortie exhausts.:cool:
Seriously, the alloy tank is fantastic, love it.

That pillbox looks awful lonely in that field.
It would definitely be the center of attention for any panzer division, or Stuka dive bomber in the area.
It'd be a good time to be in the navy, instead.
 
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Caught up wiv my nearest 961 pen friend , coffee & cake thanking you Jon & dashed to this WW2 Pillbox for a photo shot of the bikes , Adisham in Kent this one , but many still left in the south east of UK , I think if Germany had invaded England you would want to be anywhere else but not that in that pillbox with a panzer division coming over the Hill , any ol how check out Jon’s tank , it’s better in the flesh I can affirm. View attachment 94554View attachment 94555View attachment 94556View attachment 94557View attachment 94558View attachment 94559View attachment 94560View attachment 94561
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Was a real treat, buddy. And I think I'm lookin mighty chuffed in that last pic
The day would've been topped only if a Spitfire was noodlin in the sky - for those not familiar with our location, we get Spitfires out most days from Biggin Hill.
Heading out to the coast at Dover and Folkestone, they climb and swoop making the most fabulous sound - its a comfort in these post Brexit days to know they're back out there, on patrol!
 
Jon said:
Was a real treat, buddy. And I think I'm lookin mighty chuffed in that last pic
The day would've been topped only if a Spitfire was noodlin in the sky - for those not familiar with our location, we get Spitfires out most days from Biggin Hill.
Heading out to the coast at Dover and Folkestone, they climb and swoop making the most fabulous sound - its a comfort in these post Brexit days to know they're back out there, on patrol!
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By sheer coincidence one has just passed over here (Blackwater Estuary, Essex)!
No mistaking that graceful silhouette.....
 
love Hearing the spifires here. I’m not far from Biggin hill and they fly over my house...or near...in Sevenoaks. The other place they fly from is Headcorn. Will take my Norton over there for a pic with the raf church there....
 
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