Pictures of your Norton 961

NortonDominator2020 · Jan 15, 2023

TonyA said:
Ollie Thiel or Norton Factory is where I would look first.

Thanks Tony.
(Norton Factory is not the place to look for anything as you know...)

NortonDominator2020 · Jan 15, 2023

cliffa said:
Not sure why this thread is on the Pictures forum, however, you need 49mm crush washers. If you can't get any let me know and I can buy some and send them to you.

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Thanks a lot Clffa!
I think this thread is here because most of the times when someone upload a picture a conversation about it starts......

TonyA · Jan 15, 2023

NortonDominator2020 said:
Thanks Tony.
(Norton Factory is not the place to look for anything as you know...)

Some on this forum have had success , and the exhaust port gaskets should be easy for Norton to get for you .

Stu Bodycote · Jan 16, 2023

Stephen_Spencer said:
That looks ’the dogs’ Stu, very nice indeed - the detail is really gonna make the bike, as it always does.

Cheers...yeah there's quite a lot going on tbh, the more you look the more you'll spot, well, for those that know 961s

Stephen_Spencer · Jan 25, 2023

Just one of those rides today where ya could just tell things weren’t gonna go according to plan! Maybe cos there wasn’t really a plan - quick 120km impromptu blast to try and scrub the tyres in fully and test out the tech on the new lid.

Met up with my riding buddy and quickly realised that I’d charged up one Sena and brought the other! Started up the lid and got an SD Card error - I’d left the card in the back of my computer at home…… DOH! It’s an age thing of course, not a red wine the night before thing - honest

!

Bollox to the high tech, I decided to concentrate on the low tech - the Commando. She ran like a dream until right at the end of the ride. I had to stop in a hurry but my front brake resevoir decided to keep on going, only saved from tumbling down the road by the brake line and a 5c clip!

Oh those (not very) ‘good vibrations’!

Voodooo · Jan 25, 2023

Stephen_Spencer said:
Just one of those rides today where ya could just tell things weren’t gonna go according to plan! Maybe cos there wasn’t really a plan - quick 120km impromptu blast to try and scrub the tyres in fully and test out the tech on the new lid.

Met up with my riding buddy and quickly realised that I’d charged up one Sena and brought the other! Started up the lid and got an SD Card error - I’d left the card in the back of my computer at home…… DOH! It’s an age thing of course, not a red wine the night before thing - honest!

Bollox to the high tech, I decided to concentrate on the low tech - the Commando. She ran like a dream until right at the end of the ride. I had to stop in a hurry but my front brake resevoir decided to keep on going, only saved from tumbling down the road by the brake line and a 5c clip!

Oh those (not very) ‘good vibrations’!

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As good as they look, I think the added weight adds even more stress to the bracket as it’s a known problem with the plastic reservoirs.

Perhaps a rubber washer between the bracket and the perch clamp to help with some of the vibration

Vernon240 · Jan 25, 2023

Bugger. Lovely bike, great pic, it shold be easy enough to fabricate another one!

cliffa · Jan 25, 2023

Vernon240 said:
Bugger. Lovely bike, great pic, it shold be easy enough to fabricate another one!

Without a hole would be better though

@Stephen_Spencer what is a Sena and why do you need to boot up your lid?

Stephen_Spencer · Jan 25, 2023

Voodooo said:
As good as they look, I think the added weight adds even more stress to the bracket as it’s a known problem with the plastic reservoirs.

Perhaps a rubber washer between the bracket and the perch clamp to help with some of the vibration

Good point V2D3. The dealer fitted the reservoirs during a service and for some reason used a genuine Rizoma mount for the clutch reservoir but the original 961 bracket for the front brake reservoir. He reshaped the original mount to get it to present correctly and no doubt weakened it considerably as a result - vibration would do the rest. Gonna fit the same Rizoma mount on both sides - should sort it

👍

I was braking quite hard for a T-junction at the bottom of a hill - red light at the last decision moment. If my front brake had failed, I may well have ended up as a really expensive hood ornament!

Riding the awesome Norton 961 - never dull!!

Stephen_Spencer · Jan 25, 2023

cliffa said:
Without a hole would be better though

@Stephen_Spencer what is a Sena and why do you need to boot up your lid?

Hey Cliffa.

My riding mate was nearly written off a few months back - his V4S certainly was. He was hit in the rear quarter by a young girl trying to shortcut a roundabout. Her fault, he got the blame, police were negligent and he had no video footage to prove what occurred. I needed a new lid at the time so decided I wanted a camera included, which led me to an Australian company and the first ‘smart helmet’ to gain ECE 22.05 certification. The Forcite MK1S - https://www.forcitehelmets.com/

Forcite are effectively Beta testing these helmets through a user community. It’s only ‘smart’ to a point - you can read about the tech. The big shortfall for me is that the comms system, which is great quality, can only talk to another Forcite helmet at the moment. No ability to sync with Sena, Cardo or other. They are working on that as a priority currently, before issuing an update. Until that occurs I retrofitted a Sena intercom to my smart(ish) helmet, so I can maintain comms with my less technically advanced (

) riding mates!!

cliffa · Jan 25, 2023

Stephen_Spencer said:
Hey Cliffa.

My riding mate was nearly written off a few months back - his V4S certainly was. He was hit in the rear quarter by a young girl trying to shortcut a roundabout. Her fault, he got the blame, police were negligent and he had no video footage to prove what occurred. I needed a new lid at the time so decided I wanted a camera included, which led me to an Australian company and the first ‘smart helmet’ to gain ECE 22.05 certification. The Forcite MK1S - https://www.forcitehelmets.com/

Forcite are effectively Beta testing these helmets through a user community. It’s only ‘smart’ to a point - you can read about the tech. The big shortfall for me is that the comms system, which is great quality, can only talk to another Forcite helmet at the moment. No ability to sync with Sena, Cardo or other. They are working on that as priority currently, before issuing an update. Untill that occurs I retrofitted a Sena intercom to my smart(ish) helmet, so I can maintain comms with my less technically advanced ( ) riding mates!!

Aha, yes I remember you mentioning your mates accident. Thanks for the info on the lid, I’ll take a look.

Stephen_Spencer · Jan 25, 2023

Mmmmmmmm! All new European helmets (+Aus & elsewhere) will need to meet ECE 22.06 by June 23. Lots more testing and lucky us, we’re gonna get these:

It’s only a matter of time before we’re all wearing luminous leather onesies

!

cliffa · Jan 25, 2023

Stephen_Spencer said:
Mmmmmmmm! All new European helmets (+Aus & elsewhere) will need to meet ECE 22.06 by June 23. Lots more testing and lucky us, we’re gonna get these:

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It’s only a matter of time before we’re all wearing luminous leather onesies !

Apparently the reflective stickers have been mandatory in France for some years now.

lcrken · Jan 25, 2023

Time for another annual birthday ride photo. Because of the weather, I had to do my 81st birthday ride a day late. Not too long a ride, because the weather was still pretty windy, and the gusts do move a bike around a bit at speed. I rode to my friend Eric's place in Santa Paula, where he needed a break from shoveling mud out of house and shops. Flooding was up to 4 feet deep on some parts of his property. He'll be at the cleanup for some time to come. This is a shot of my 961 and his Guzzi in his driveway. You can see how high the water was in their garage by the waterline at the bottom of the garage fridge.

This is the last bike of those stored in the garage that still needs to be cleaned up.

This is me with our bikes at Boccali's Italian restaurant in Ojai, our most common choice for lunch on our weekly rides.

It was a good day for me. The last few months have been pretty hard, ending up with us having to move my wife to a memory care retirement facility last week. A good ride with friends really helps to clear my mind of other demons, at least for a while.

Ken

BritTwit · Jan 25, 2023

Ken,
I saw the weather reports of the pounding that California was taking from the atmospheric river front.
Nasty stuff for sure.
Hopefully the worst is over now.
A good ride does help to clear out the cobwebs, and banish the demos.
Sorry to hear about your wife.
These situations really drive home how important family and friends are in all of our lives.
Be well.

TonyA · Jan 25, 2023

lcrken said:
Time for another annual birthday ride photo. Because of the weather, I had to do my 81st birthday ride a day late. Not too long a ride, because the weather was still pretty windy, and the gusts do move a bike around a bit at speed. I rode to my friend Eric's place in Santa Paula, where he needed a break from shoveling mud out of house and shops. Flooding was up to 4 feet deep on some parts of his property. He'll be at the cleanup for some time to come. This is a shot of my 961 and his Guzzi in his driveway. You can see how high the water was in their garage by the waterline at the bottom of the garage fridge.

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This is the last bike of those stored in the garage that still needs to be cleaned up.

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This is me with our bikes at Boccali's Italian restaurant in Ojai, our most common choice for lunch on our weekly rides.

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It was a good day for me. The last few months have been pretty hard, ending up with us having to move my wife to a memory care retirement facility last week. A good ride with friends really helps to clear my mind of other demons, at least for a while.

Ken

Hi Ken , It is nice to hear from you again.

Stephen_Spencer · Feb 4, 2023

Back on the road courtesy of Rizoma and ready for a blast tomorrow! Rizoma Universal Mount had to go on upside down as it’s not designed to be assembled to the 8mm mirror mount. Rubber section between mount and bars as opposed to mount and reservoir - all good.

Voodooo · Feb 4, 2023

Stephen_Spencer said:
Back on the road courtesy of Rizoma and ready for a blast tomorrow! Rizoma Universal Mount had to go on upside down as it’s not designed to be assembled to the 8mm mirror mount. Rubber section between mount and bars as opposed to mount and reservoir - all good.

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How much heavier are those rizoma reservoirs compared to the stock plastic brembos?

Nice that the rizoma has rubber vibration dampers.

Stu Bodycote · Feb 4, 2023

More nerdy and pointless weight saving....but every little helps.
Managed to bag a hollow front wheel spindle. It's still in its raw state, so I'll have to get it plated, but there's a few more grams of unsprung knocked off.
Next time I've got my front wheel out, I'll weigh the whole shebang against a standard spoked and tubed wheel.

Stu Bodycote · Feb 4, 2023

Ok, standard euro 3 wheel with tyre and wheel spindle. Adding this picture here for my future reference.

Pictures of your Norton 961

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TonyA

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Stephen_Spencer

Voodooo

Vernon240

cliffa

Stephen_Spencer

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cliffa

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BritTwit

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