Pictures of your Norton Commandos

Fast Eddie · Sep 26, 2015

gortnipper said:
L.A.B. said:

gortnipper said:

Triumph produced a T140J Silver Jubilee to commemorate the 1977 Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II,

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Yes, but there was no particular royal or Norton factory jubilee that I can think of that would have been celebrated in 1974, and the Blue stripe colour scheme continued on into 1975 so a '2 year' jubilee?

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grandpaul said:

A quick google search came up with '73 as the year of the JPN winning the TT. Based on that, I tend to believe that the obvious nod to JPN with a White, Red & Blue paint scheme (and race style bodywork on the specific JPN model) in '74 is legit.

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Exactly.

It could well be. It certainly seems that almost no-one else is familiar with the Jubliee name for this paint scheme.

Whatever its name... Its still my favourite colour scheme for a Roadster !

nortryder · Sep 27, 2015

There was a fellow around a while back that had a T140 that was tarted up and it had in small script on the side covers " Royal separation model " Charles and Diana" it was pretty funny but a real pretty bike none the less.

I uesd Agfa Pan F in Rodinal diluted 1:100 in My Linhof Kardan for years. You couldn't see the grain with a grain focuser. I loved that stuff. But that was a long long time ago. I also worked a t a custom E6 lab, we ran lots of Kodachome as well. Fuji put an end to that as well as digital. I still have a big chunk of silver somewhere. Can out of a recovery unit we had. We pulled out lots of silver. Can't do that anymore

grandpaul · Sep 27, 2015

nortryder said:
There was a fellow around a while back that had a T140 that was tarted up and it had in small script on the side covers " Royal separation model " Charles and Diana" it was pretty funny but a real pretty bike none the less.

Hee Hee

Good one!

Thesilverfox · Sep 27, 2015

I took this 4x5 of myself on Ilford Delta 100 film developed in HC110. Its funny how much some of us have in common. I guess we like old things that were made to last. I still develop film in my basement.

gortnipper · Sep 27, 2015

nortryder said:
I uesd Agfa Pan F in Rodinal diluted 1:100 in My Linhof Kardan for years. You couldn't see the grain with a grain focuser. I loved that stuff. But that was a long long time ago. I also worked a t a custom E6 lab, we ran lots of Kodachome as well. Fuji put an end to that as well as digital. I still have a big chunk of silver somewhere. Can out of a recovery unit we had. We pulled out lots of silver. Can't do that anymore

I had a buddy that loved Pan F. You actually ran Kodachrome K-14??!! Ektachrome and Fujichrome each helped put an end to Kodachrome. I loved their 25 ASA. But, everyone hated the week long turnaround then, eh? Cant really rush that like you could E-6. We also ran a silver recovery unit and used to have a big bucket of it just laying about. The crap we used to dump out of labs was scary, but the prints are so much nicer. I actually miss spending half a day shut up in a toxic darkroom with the music blaring....

MS850 · Sep 29, 2015

gortnipper said:
nortryder said:

I uesd Agfa Pan F in Rodinal diluted 1:100 in My Linhof Kardan for years. You couldn't see the grain with a grain focuser. I loved that stuff. But that was a long long time ago. I also worked a t a custom E6 lab, we ran lots of Kodachome as well. Fuji put an end to that as well as digital. I still have a big chunk of silver somewhere. Can out of a recovery unit we had. We pulled out lots of silver. Can't do that anymore

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I had a buddy that loved Pan F. You actually ran Kodachrome K-14??!! Ektachrome and Fujichrome each helped put an end to Kodachrome. I loved their 25 ASA. But, everyone hated the week long turnaround then, eh? Cant really rush that like you could E-6. We also ran a silver recovery unit and used to have a big bucket of it just laying about. The crap we used to dump out of labs was scary, but the prints are so much nicer. I actually miss spending half a day shut up in a toxic darkroom with the music blaring....

Yeah there is beauty shooting with b/w film, I still have photos from the '70s that are hanging on my wall still in excellent condition.

Nater_Potater · Sep 29, 2015

A a child (hold the comments 'til later) my weekly allowance was the purchase, and subsequent last week's development cost, of a 120 roll of film that went into my Brownie Hawkeye. I have the only pictures ever taken of my dad's 1968 Triumph 500 Daytona. It was that bike (when I was eight) that started the fire in me for Big Iron. Too bad all I had was black and white at the time... The Triumph's long gone, but I still have the Hawkeye, and it still takes great pictures!

Ned · Oct 5, 2015

Hi there

Been lurking about for a while now, bout time I joined in.

Some pics of mine. Reminded me of a Lemon in more ways than one but a lot less a Lemon now.

Ned

vidar hjelm johansen · Oct 8, 2015

Hi

Here's my bike, with some details

Vidar

850commando · Oct 12, 2015

Thesilverfox said:
I took this 4x5 of myself on Ilford Delta 100 film developed in HC110. Its funny how much some of us have in common. I guess we like old things that were made to last. I still develop film in my basement.

nice to see it road worthy, looks good in B&W

JCD · Nov 6, 2015

Just waiting on a seat.

MS850 · Nov 8, 2015

JCD said:
Just waiting on a seat.

Very nice bike, what kind of seat are you waiting for?, also what brand rear shocks?

JCD · Nov 8, 2015

Thanks! Waiting for a Corbin seat. Should be here soon according to the tracking number. I have purchased 2 "stock" Mk3 seats, one from England and one from someone on this site. Neither fit. Not even close. I'll need to cut and weld the mount tab and hinge and weld them in the correct spot. The shocks were purchased from Clubman. The brand escapes me, but were described as being tooled from the original Girling shock producer. They look very Emgo to me, but seem to be built better?
More pics when the seat arrives this Tuesday!

grandpaul · Nov 9, 2015

You received Interstate seats, the mount is closer to the nose of the seat.

triumph2 · Nov 9, 2015

Thesilverfox said:
I took this 4x5 of myself on Ilford Delta 100 film developed in HC110. Its funny how much some of us have in common. I guess we like old things that were made to last. I still develop film in my basement.

I served my apprenticeship with Ilford films at their main engineering office in Ilford before immigrating to Canada many moons ago. It was interesting 'watching' how the film was made.

rwalker28 · Nov 9, 2015

This question should get bounced into another forrum, but when you say you watched the film get made do you mean the coating operation? I have been a coating engineer for a very long time and that is some precision coating of the various substrates onto the polyester film carrier. And done in a dark room, or a faint colored light that does not photo activate the coating. I always wondered how they got that done in a safe environment, or course that was solvent based coating so you have the explosion proof aspects along with the general web handling nip points and pinch points.

triumph2 said:
Thesilverfox said:

I took this 4x5 of myself on Ilford Delta 100 film developed in HC110. Its funny how much some of us have in common. I guess we like old things that were made to last. I still develop film in my basement.

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I served my apprenticeship with Ilford films at their main engineering office in Ilford before immigrating to Canada many moons ago. It was interesting 'watching' how the film was made.

AlanColes · Nov 22, 2015

vidar hjelm johansen said:
...Here's my bike, with some details
Vidar
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One of the nicest Interstates I've seen Vidar. Nice photography as well.

norton73 · Nov 25, 2015

Picked up this rough looking '75 MkIII from a friend last May.

It is supposed to be the last Norton sold new in Alabama. It sat on the dealer's floor till 1980. The first owner rode it that first summer, then parked it in the back yard and when it wouldn't start the following spring, left it there for 25 years. A friend that was a teacher and school bus driver bugged him for many years and finally got it. He in turn didn't get to it for a couple years and sold it on to another friend, who did a bunch of work on it, getting it running and cleaning it up some. He needed some cash, so we bought it for my wife. After 7 knee surgeries, the last being a complete replacement of the right knee, an e-start was gonna be what she needed to start riding Nortons after many years riding BMWs and Ducatis

I busted butt to get it running in time for the INOA rally in Asheville last summer.

Fortunately, I'd been collecting Interstate parts for another project, so had a friend who has done work for Barber paint the tank and sidecovers;

grandpaul · Nov 26, 2015

That is some beautiful paint. Nice brace of his-n-her Nortons.

TheVintageBikeStore · Nov 28, 2015

New to the site. My name is Alex, 30 years old, first bike was a Combat Commando and I still have that one plus a few more Commandos and some other Brit bikes. Born into a Norton family, my pop still has his first Norton, a 1967 P-11. Thought I would post a picture of one from my old man's fleet, and easily his favorite Brit bike... 1 of 2 remaining Gus Kuhn race bikes... This is the one pictured on the cover of the October 1996 Classic Bike Guide. Gus Kuhn site has most of the article and specs posted if your want to check out some more info.. Any questions, give me a shout on here or at info@thevintagebikestore.com (a Brit bike shop in Daytona Beach, FL area that I've been working on for a few years - just having trouble parting with any of my Nortons so it is more of an expensive hobby at this point!)

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