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Hand made, attention to even the smallest detail. If this is attention to detail then it will be a short summer!
 
My wife has accepted my other mistresses and alerts me to good ride days like today which has to be pretty good for me to want to risk a ride on my modern appliance cycle - while I only avoid riding if big storms, heat waves or ice on the roads when my Combat ready to go. Strangely the moderns make me feel my age but my 'antique' makes me feel like a kid that I am. Never seen a big full coverage windshield on sports bikes but my Commandos to extend comfort season.
 
I don't mind the snow and every winter I go on a 2 week trip to somewhere cold on the bike. There's a lot of fun to be had riding where there's an 1" thick layer of ice over the road when you've got studded knobblies and you're on a bike that you don't really care if you crash. 8)
 
No doubt - one feels rather more aware of being alive and about to lose it riding on ice though enjoyment level goes up with mud cleated tires + ice studs fitted. I'm serious considering a tread mount on Peel. Its gotten to mid 80's mild today but too hot to enjoy my modern and arrange cargo on it w/o luggage rack like on my Combat so will have to get my road glow from yoose tough guys this time.
 
Out at 7:00 today for a very enjoyable two hour breakfast ride. Need to be done by 10 AM in SE Texas this time of year.
 
I'm a shit kicker from Houston which would still be cow town w/o A/C. Real reason I didn't ride as 80's still cools ya but THE Gravel is bone dry so no humidity to help stick it in place but becomes electrostatically repulsive so more like loose marbles in waves than secure constant lack of much traction like ice or wet grass. I'd take the lighter more predicable steering/saves on THE Grit with B.I. bikes but my semi supermotard semi sports bike SuVee requires steady muscle tension for essentially one long slide drifing event ya trying not to let happen at all. No one, no animal no craft are ever safe on THE slutty Shitty Stuff. It rules most my life outisde home. Only thing worse - Always instant Crisis to me is $@%#U&I^&*%Mud.
 
Andy_B said:
I don't mind the snow and every winter I go on a 2 week trip to somewhere cold on the bike. There's a lot of fun to be had riding where there's an 1" thick layer of ice over the road when you've got studded knobblies and you're on a bike that you don't really care if you crash. 8)
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Sounds like fun, I have done the "Elephant ride" here in Colorado a few times. It is a mid winter ride over a closed pass and to the next town for lunch. It's amazing how much traction you can get with a knobby full of screws. :D
There have been times when they didn't help however when the snow was about 3 ft deep. :(
Jim
 
Well its mid winter here and at this moment (9am) I am sitting here at the computer in short pants a thin flannel shirt, we don't have heating in our house at all, the front and back doors are fully open and soon will be going for a very enjoyable mid week ride when my mate turns up and one year I will get down to Phils way to experance snow for the first time, probly will freeze my balls off, but can't wait to experance it.

Ashley
 
auldblue said:
Summer.


Hand made, attention to even the smallest detail. If this is attention to detail then it will be a short summer!
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I've gotta get me one of those '61 Norton Commandos. Even though they made 500,000 (?) of them you don't see too many of them these days.

Who wrote this shit?
 
Fullauto hi

The official norton motors website.

The monkey was getting spanked the day they wrote this mince.

Me and big del got caught in a snow flurry in 97 coming back from Jerez it lasted about an hour .I pelted him on the heid with a snowball ,there was no way I was going to end up trashed in Spain . Mick got beat again as well that race,bastard.

Happy days
 
comnoz said:
Andy_B said:
I don't mind the snow and every winter I go on a 2 week trip to somewhere cold on the bike. There's a lot of fun to be had riding where there's an 1" thick layer of ice over the road when you've got studded knobblies and you're on a bike that you don't really care if you crash. 8)
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Sounds like fun, I have done the "Elephant ride" here in Colorado a few times. It is a mid winter ride over a closed pass and to the next town for lunch. It's amazing how much traction you can get with a knobby full of screws. :D
There have been times when they didn't help however when the snow was about 3 ft deep. :(
Jim
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Google Elefantentreffen or Tauerntreffen, I've done both and though the Elefantentreffen is much bigger and a proper riot the Tauerntreffen is more of a test.

We also did a two week trip to the Arctic Circle in January one year which was (in hindsight) not a very intelligent move.
 
Andy_b

Intelligent . Motorcycle. I'm sure you have never used these two words in the same sentence in your life.Oh and by the way did you see Gino Rondelli when you were in the Arctic?

Happy days
 
I've gotta get me one of those '61 Norton Commandos. Even though they made 500,000 (?) of them you don't see too many of them these days.
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And I need to recruit more staff for Andover Norton- I didn't realize our market was that big. Those 450.000 surplus Commandos must still be rusting away in some chicken sheds, unrestored!

Joe/Andover Norton
 
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