Pictures of your Norton Commandos

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Well this is odd!
There dosent seem to be a photo of my commando here?
Ha ha

Gotta love a road going Manx eh ?!

The alloy 850 fastback is truly a work of art, the tank and seat unit are an exact copy

So here's original:


Then came the mini fairing that did nothing, rear sets, and lastly the yamaha cast wheel conversion.

Of course never smart enough to leave well enough alone, I had to have a bigger fuel tank and get out of the wind a bit (I'm tall) and then came the next perversion of stock parts.

With all that, stuff still bothered me. I wanted removable hard bags, so I wouldn't have to go places either wearing a backpack or stuffing crap in my pockets, so I modified Givi frames to fit my commando.

I still had complaints. The early side covers jammed up against the interstate tank and the tank had to be shimmed up in the back. I had to adapt interstate sidecovers to fit the central oil tank commando. The only other thing that is bugging me at the moment is the seat cover is shot and the seat is too short since it was a temporary fix to fit with the interstate tank. I just finished the side cover swap to the interstate look, and I photoshopped the seat to make it look longer even though I'm not sure what the final seat will look like...


and also the last 2 pictures have the stock lollypop directionals deleted in favor of the fairing mounted pyramids up front and the small (but very bright) matte black, low profile emgo directionals.


I have finally replace the early roadster side covers which bumped into the bottom of my interstate tank. It took me a long time to make all the sheet metal adjustments to fit around the '70 central oil tank and make some accomodation to house the key cylinder. So now my commando looks like an interstate,... The only thing I know I want to do is get a new seat. I actually cut down my original roadster seat and it doesn't look proportionate to the larger fuel tank, so it's on my list along with a belt drive primary.




I made some new adjustments. I got an interstate seat and the guts to cut down the windshield 3" in the center, tapering off to 1.5" on both cheeks. The fairing looks more proportionate to the sizes of the seat and fuel tank now, but I'm not willing to cut it down more than I have already, because I like the coverage from the wind blast on my chest when I'm riding down the hiway. The picture above is with the givi bags off obviously...

Lookin' a little better here with the windshield trimmed and the new seat.

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baz said:

The alloy 850 fastback is truly a work of art, the tank and seat unit are an exact copy

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One like that used to show up at the vintage bike display during Springfield Mile every year. The sidecovers were also polished alloy and it sported an alloy dual-headlight JPN fairing. Evan Wilcox's work, I believe.

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Nice work, Mark.

Thanks Dan, I’d love to do some riding but it’s too damn hot to put a helmet on.

Shaking down the 920 Commando at Mallory Park... great fun and no disasters...

Great pictures, Nigel. The bike looks wicked at speed. Did you have any trouble with the sidestand dragging in turns?

Ken

Looking great! +1 on the concern about the stands. Could loose ~3kg for the track there! ;-)

Very cool. Looks in it's element.

Thanks gents.

The sidestand isn’t the issue, I cut the ‘tang’ off of that long ago!

It’s the centre stand that’s the issue, and yes it was touching down. Trouble is, although the starting is easing as it beds in, I still can’t do it off the stand.

Fast Eddie said:

The sidestand isn’t the issue, I cut the ‘tang’ off of that long ago!

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How do you mount the prop? Clean thru the frame or what?

gortnipper said:

How do you mount the prop? Clean thru the frame or what?

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I’m referring to the long tang on the end of the stand designed so you can hook it out with your boot. It’s mounted to the frame in the standard way.

Although this wouldn’t be good enough for Dave Croxford, I’ll be surprised if it causes me any clearance issues !

All the tracks I've been to don't allow stands of any sort, except for parade laps.

Bike looks smart!

grandpaul said:

All the tracks I've been to don't allow stands of any sort, except for parade laps.

Bike looks smart!

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Same here, no race meets will allow stands. Track days allow stands, some dictate they need zip tying up, some don’t.

Fast Eddie said:

Although this wouldn’t be good enough for Dave Croxford, I’ll be surprised if it causes me any clearance issues !

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That rash on your primary cover would seem to indicate otherwise.

oldbeezer said:

That rash on your primary cover would seem to indicate otherwise.

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I think that was a "before" rash, and it looks rather machined IMHO.

As much as I’d like to claim it is a ‘rash’ from my adventures whilst two wheel drifting around the outside of Rossi... it is actually a flat that I put there because the exhaust was fouling the cover.

Sorry to disappoint y’all !