Pictures of your Norton Commandos

fiatfan said:
Fast Eddie said:
Very interesting bike there Peter.

Care to tell us a little about it?

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Eddie; just klick one of the pics, and there´s more, both pics and reading. After looking at that, I´d classify this bike as a couple of notches above "very" interesting.....
Tommy
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Thanks for the tip Tommy, really good stuff.

I particularly like the quote: "the bike weighs about the same as a stock Commando Interstate with the engine and gearbox missing"

Tommy, don't forget that I'm English, so "very interesting" is high praise really, in fact it probably translates into Amercian as "God dam freakin awesome dude"

Or something similar...
 
Fast Eddie said:
Tommy, don't forget that I'm English, so "very interesting" is high praise really, in fact it probably translates into Amercian as "God dam freakin awesome dude"

Or something similar...
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Actually, "Shit Fire!!!" should suffice...

Very nice bike. I keep hoping to find a clapped-out pile that could be converted into an old-school street-legal race bike. Something like that would be great fun for blasting around the back roads in my neck of the woods. Yours gives me inspiration!

Nathan
 
What's the best battery-less self-generating ignition these days?
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Lucas SR 2 , of Tractor . Joe Hunts likely ' current ' thus less irritateing . Wont get a better spark with elec tripe .
 
The many faces of a 70 Norton Commando that I've been involved with for over 10 years.

I overhauled the engine and did powdercoat & polishing, my friend did all the rest in the top photo, about 10 years ago.

(it morphed slightly between 2008 - 2012, then sat till this last January)

Middle photo was the best I could do with what I had on the shelves to get it on e-bay when my friend commissioned me to sell it just last February.

E-bay buyer, my latest client, directed that it look like the bottom photo, just completed yesterday.

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Fast Eddie said:
fiatfan said:
Fast Eddie said:
Very interesting bike there Peter.

Care to tell us a little about it?

Please...!
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Eddie; just klick one of the pics, and there´s more, both pics and reading. After looking at that, I´d classify this bike as a couple of notches above "very" interesting.....
Tommy
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Thanks for the tip Tommy, really good stuff.

I particularly like the quote: "the bike weighs about the same as a stock Commando Interstate with the engine and gearbox missing"

Tommy, don't forget that I'm English, so "very interesting" is high praise really, in fact it probably translates into Amercian as "God dam freakin awesome dude"

Or something similar...
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It´s not easy for those of us who don´t use English as our native language having to deal with two almost completely different versions of "English" :wink: ! The worst is the vocabulary concerning motorcycle parts, is there any more than "frame" and "wheel" that´s the same in Britain and the US? I have to write someone about this.... :mrgreen:
Tommy
 
Photo of a client's Norton that he just completed (I overhauled the engine).

He called me to report it fired up on the first kick and settled straight in to a nice loping tickover.

Very nice bike, although I would have gone all chrome on the exhaust, personally.

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fiatfan said:
It´s not easy for those of us who don´t use English as our native language having to deal with two almost completely different versions of "English" :wink: ! The worst is the vocabulary concerning motorcycle parts, is there any more than "frame" and "wheel" that´s the same in Britain and the US? I have to write someone about this.... :mrgreen:
Tommy
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According to George Bernard Shaw; England and America are two countries separated by a common language. Take a look about half-way down the page at technical-information-how-post-photos-t2357.html for the "US=UK Terminology". Of course, this may only add to the confusion...

Nathan
 
Nater_Potater said:
fiatfan said:
It´s not easy for those of us who don´t use English as our native language having to deal with two almost completely different versions of "English" :wink: ! The worst is the vocabulary concerning motorcycle parts, is there any more than "frame" and "wheel" that´s the same in Britain and the US? I have to write someone about this.... :mrgreen:
Tommy
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According to George Bernard Shaw; England and America are two countries separated by a common language. Take a look about half-way down the page at technical-information-how-post-photos-t2357.html for the "US=UK Terminology". Of course, this may only add to the confusion...

Nathan
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As a Yank living in NZ with a British ex-wife, I like to say that I am tri-lingual. :mrgreen:
 
From Cafe Racer to Roadster

Fast Eddie said:
Thought I'd post some pics of mine in its current cafe racer guise cw the loaned Steve Maney racing exhaust...

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Here's mine in Spring 2016 trim!

Two up seat, roadster spec and pillion pegs modified to suit my two young daughters...

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What is worth the effort is also worth the wait. it took about 5 1/2 years to finish but I am happy with the outcome.
1975 Commando MKIII. Updated with some nice updates. My own design negative ground wiring system using a Motogadget controller, Tri-Spark, single coil, Hydraulic clutch, CNW head steady, Brembo brakes, floating disks, digital guages, new handlebar controls, new st/st tapered spokes and upgraded hubs, new CNW mufflers, Keihin carbs, custom aircraft digital oil pressure / tempreature guage and sensors, custom seat, high performance beehive springs and valves, oil cooler with (overkill) braided st/st hoses, ballistic battery, modified and relocated (under seat) oil filter, improved suspension, CNW starter, o-ring chain, ETC.
Sure its all overkill but what else do you do with your time and money?
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Here is my '73 850 Interstate soon after I mounted new exhaust. I ordered the bike new in 1973, panicked and sold her in 1978. About six years ago, she found her way home with only about 2k more miles that when I sold her! Not for sale now.
 

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We had an Import (read; non-Harley-Davidson) bike show today, so I spent a couple of hours after work yesterday primping the old girl. Something strange happened, though; when cleaning the engine, I found only the strangest dry, powdery-like substance that, on anything else, would be called road grit. I've never seen anything like that before on the Norton! After utilizing the Dorman crank breather, repairing the head studs, replacing the primary to crankcase gasket, and replacing the o-ring in the tach drive, there's no oil leaks! Anywhere!

Here we are after a light douching with the garden hose:
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Check out the center cases right under the timing cover. Crazy clean!

The show went well with around twelve bikes (kind of light due to the unseasonably cool weather) with a handful of late-Sixties/early Seventies Triumphs, a few Nippons, and, as usual, just one Norton. I'll proudly carry the torch for the marquee.
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To end on a high note, even with the inevitable audience, she started on the first kick.

Nathan
 
doc said:
Great wiring job, Someday I would love to slim down the wiring on my MK3. You wouldn't happen to have a wiring diagram, for say, a life time supply of good English beer

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I've registered a long time ago but never really got around posting anything. Well here you go, some pix of my slightly cafe'd 74 MKIIa. Pix were taken on a recent trip through the Dolomites, around Lake Garda and Eastern Dolomites:

Monte Baldo:

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This one caught up with me as we passed Passo Rolle and we blasted the Passo Valles up together..750 Combat vs a mildly optimized 850 flat out up to 2.200m elevation. Not much power left at these altitudes but plenty of motivation! Really a surprise to find another Commando out on the road, and being given plenty of stick too!

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More of a surprise - the rider of the yellow peril was 70+ and I had to spit in my gloves to keep up:

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He was from Padova, out on a tour with his son on the Tuono in the background, plus 15 or 20 other guys. Apparently a real Norton nut..told me about a Commando he owns (among others) with over 100k KM on the clock, on which he had to rebuild the engine 19 times :shock:

A casualty..:

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Other views & bikes of that trip:

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So..at least one of the European Commando still running 8)

Daniel
 
Took a little ride this morning while I waited for the dew to burn off the grass so I could mow. Took it up to 90 mph with no issues.

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