Pictures of your Norton Commandos

Restored with much help from Access Norton.
 

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1973x75 said:
Restored with much help from Access Norton.
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Its beautiful and a credit to you. You should be very proud of what you've done.
When you think about it, It's incredible what the Commando design team managed to put together in just a few months. What is it about the Commando that over 50 years later still looks fresh and other manufacturers are still trying (unsuccessfully) to emulate?
 
gortnipper said:
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IT looks much better in an 8x10, thanks. History: YD had a severe crash in Daytona in March 2002, He called and asked if I had a bike for him to ride, so I set up the old # 3 bike for him. In the Big bike race, in the Laconia hair pin at the end of the long down hill straight, two fellow Canadiens on Nortons almost tangles with Yvon trying to out brake him. But by the start finish he already had a comfortable lead and this picture is of him on the second to last lap on at start finish glaring back and as Joe Bolger said " Yvon sure spent a lot of time looking back." But YD showed why he is in 5 hall of fame and always rode well as his equipment would allow. The fans flocked to the bike and the CHR Commando showed it was much more than a show pony and more like the thorough bred a Commando can be.
This is the last race YD ever won and very fittingly on my #17 Bike. It took a lot of balls to race on this track as it was riddled with danger that could easily kill you.
 
daveforty said:
Very nice. The signpost says Shropshire. Will you be doing the VMCC's Herefordshire on the Edge run in June?
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I hadn't planned to. I'm not a member of the VMCC. That signpost was about 65 miles into the ride (I'm from Warwickshire).
 
Mark Savage said:
I hadn't planned to. I'm not a member of the VMCC. That signpost was about 65 miles into the ride (I'm from Warwickshire).
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Dont have to be a VMCC member, although the entry is a few more £. Start and finish at Leintwardine, approx 200mile ride all round the borders of Herefordshire. Brilliant day out (if the weather is good). I have done it a couple of times on my T140 and once on the Commando.

 
Pictures of your Norton Commandos


fellow wants (me) to build a "Red Phoenix" from this...... 1st commando I took apart using a sawz-all.....
 
The view from my door this afternoon.

Pictures of your Norton Commandos

Took the Commando out for a blast around the Island enjoying some half decent weather.

About halfway through the ride I just stopped anylising the bike. Y'know - Is the clutch dragging?. Was that a misfire changing down into that junction?. Are the Isolastics too tight?. Is the blah blah blah?. - I parked the over-thinking and just started enjoying the moment. It felt so great just being out there in the countryside on this wonderful machine.

Idle

I'm still buzzing two hours later. I've really bonded with this bike 👍
 
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Bonzo said:
The view from my door this afternoon.

Pictures of your Norton Commandos

Took the Commando out for a blast around the Island enjoying some half decent weather.

About halfway through the ride I just stopped anylising the bike. Y'know - Is the clutch dragging?. Was that a misfire changing down into that junction?. Are the Isolastics too tight?. Is the blah blah blah?. - I parked the over-thinking and just started enjoying the moment. It felt so great just being out there in the countryside on this wonderful machine.

I'm still buzzing two hours later. I've really bonded with this bike 👍
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They really are great bikes when you get the bugs out
Greatest bodge up in motorcycle history IMO
Certainly better than the sum of it's parts
 
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