Pictures of your Norton Commandos

Polish Night at the Essex NOC meeting tonight - not at all related to spicy sausages or strong schnapps - more autosol and soft rags!

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The 1947 Dominator was outstanding and won the award for best bike.
Lots of other bikes, mostly commando 750 and 850(two 961's) but these were the shortlisted ones
 
The alloy 850 fastback is truly a work of art, the tank and seat unit are an exact copy
 
So here's original:
Pictures of your Norton Commandos


Then came the mini fairing that did nothing, rear sets, and lastly the yamaha cast wheel conversion.
Pictures of your Norton Commandos


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.
Pictures of your Norton Commandos


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.
Pictures of your Norton Commandos

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...

Pictures of your Norton Commandos

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.

Pictures of your Norton Commandos

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.


Pictures of your Norton Commandos


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.

Pictures of your Norton Commandos
 
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The alloy 850 fastback is truly a work of art, the tank and seat unit are an exact copy
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.
 
Great pictures, Nigel. The bike looks wicked at speed. Did you have any trouble with the sidestand dragging in turns?

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

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

Bike looks smart!

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