What Did You Do With Your Commando Today?

Might not be related to this health related thread but I've been on statins for a little while now (generic Lipitor) and found that my right hand would cramp up quite a bit and become painful when gripping things. NO deformation in my hands but definitely mobility issues. Also, my feet would act up quite a bit with the fascia becoming very tight to the point it was difficult to walk. I thought my feet problem (mostly on the right foot) was trauma from my bike kicking back during the early days of learning my Norton, where it kicked back a few times and really did a number on my foot. I stopped taking my statin and the pain is subsiding and mobility is coming back. I plan to work it with my doc to see if I can get off statins and maybe get on the glp-1 bandwagon for metabolic health therapy. My wife and I have been following the developments with people using this treatment and I'm curious to give it a go and see how much better it makes me.
 
Getting bored with my job (I often have bike parts sitting on my desk to tinker with while on work calls or as a diversion) I grabbed my spare Amals to do some storage servicing and checkup to make sure they are good. One is the original Amal that came with my 850 (the other of the pair failed with the slider sticking with a distorted barrel), the other is the Premier (the other of the pair is a single in my 850). The original Amal is on the right. Holding the two, I was surprised how much heavier the original Amal is compared with the Premier. Felt like twice the weight. Certainly a much more robust build quality than the newer Premier.



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Café au Lait said:
Tore down the entire primary to retighten the front sprocket and replace the faulty sprag. Got as far as only needing to restack the clutch and set the cNw transfer gear indent pins when I ran out of time to get ready for a ride with some friends to The Six Bells in Warborough, Oxon. Classic car meet.

Excellent event which I obviously had to take another bike and as 2 of the guys were on airheads I elected to take the R12S.

200 yrds after leaving my dash flashed red with a tyre warning! Bollox, my first ever puncture on a bike or car (push bike excepted). That was @ 8:30 pm Got to thank the locals who provided a chair, a cup of tea and some snacks. Warms the heart😀

BMW free recovery (new bikes have at least one advantage) got home 4 hrs later. Still, could have been much worse, could have been the Norton in Italy last month🤣
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Man! I really like the looks of those BMW heritage style bikes! That R12S is attractive. If I had a spare 25k sitting around I would be tempted....
 
Starvingphotog said:
Getting bored with my job (I often have bike parts sitting on my desk to tinker with while on work calls or as a diversion) I grabbed my spare Amals to do some storage servicing and checkup to make sure they are good. One is the original Amal that came with my 850 (the other of the pair failed with the slider sticking with a distorted barrel), the other is the Premier (the other of the pair is a single in my 850). The original Amal is on the right. Holding the two, I was surprised how much heavier the original Amal is compared with the Premier. Felt like twice the weight. Certainly a much more robust build quality than the newer Premier.



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The originals were made from a zinc alloy that is much heavier than the aluminium alloy of the premiers.
 
Starvingphotog said:
Might not be related to this health related thread but I've been on statins for a little while now (generic Lipitor) and found that my right hand would cramp up quite a bit and become painful when gripping things. NO deformation in my hands but definitely mobility issues. Also, my feet would act up quite a bit with the fascia becoming very tight to the point it was difficult to walk. I thought my feet problem (mostly on the right foot) was trauma from my bike kicking back during the early days of learning my Norton, where it kicked back a few times and really did a number on my foot. I stopped taking my statin and the pain is subsiding and mobility is coming back. I plan to work it with my doc to see if I can get off statins and maybe get on the glp-1 bandwagon for metabolic health therapy. My wife and I have been following the developments with people using this treatment and I'm curious to give it a go and see how much better it makes me.
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Talk to your doctor about Zetia (ezetimibe). It is not a statin, rather a cholesterol abortion inhibitor. It tugged my nigglingly high cholesterol right down.
 
Yeah, thanks for that. I'll look into it. I am also going to ask him to start me on a micro-dose of GLP-1s to get me over this hump of diet so I can be 130 pounds again like Mike Yingling...:)
 
gortnipper said:
I have had three surgeries on my two hands.



Each fixes it for 6 months and seems to to then make it worse overall. My hand doc said i have the most aggressive case he has ever seen.

That pinky is bent about 65 degrees now.
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I'm sorry to hear that. Yours sounds way worse than my experience with the disease. The surgeon told me that the problem might return, but it's been many years now and it hasn't.

Ken
 
Fast Eddie said:
Sarcopenia Mike.

AKA age related muscle loss.

Focus on protein intake and include some reasonably strenuous resistance training in your exercise regime.

Or don’t… and choose getting old and frail instead…
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Thanks Nigel,
I start with a trainer this week. I have never used any resistance training working construction all my life. I really don’t want to get old and tired 😎
Mike
 
YING said:
Thanks Nigel,
I start with a trainer this week. I have never used any resistance training working construction all my life. I really don’t want to get old and tired 😎
Mike
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Then you’re doing the right thing in getting a personal trainer Mike 👍

And remember… it’s never too late to start…
 
Yesterday: Rode to meetup point (47 miles) to meet with group to ride to classic bike show (another 37 miles) Construction and stop and go traffic at one point. Norton didn't want to get into neutral. Think my clutch plates are starting to gum up. Got through traffic and continued to event. Decided to stay at a nearby motel because it was hot and I was pretty fried by that point. Lucked out: my room overlooked a small jog in the parking lot where I could park Nort and cable lock it to a tree.
Got up this morning early and rode to breakfast with some people, then rode home. Nort is still intermittently having sticky clutch issues. Drat. I do have a clutch puller, just have to find someone to clean up the plates. Sigh.
 
Fine someone too clean you plate, do it yourself not a hard job, get your hands dirty you are a Norton owner, how else are you going to learn about your bike if you don't get your hands dirty:rolleyes:
 
You could always get a new set of friction plates.
Matt found out what was going on with my recent clutch fail. The basket he gave me was missing a critical second circlip (outer) to hold the bearing in place in the basket. The other circlip (inner) is to hold the clutch centre in the bearing, I think. This missing (outer) circlip allowed the bearing to move in and out and resulted in the clutch centre scraping on the basket and kicking up all those shavings and interfering with the plates to the point where they wouldn't disengage from one another.


What Did You Do With Your Commando Today?
 
ashman said:
Fine someone too clean you plate, do it yourself not a hard job, get your hands dirty you are a Norton owner, how else are you going to learn about your bike if you don't get your hands dirty:rolleyes:
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Wear disposable plastic gloves for this dirty chore . Enjoy .
 

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