SwissCommando
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- Jun 19, 2022
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Hello, I'm new here but not to the Commando, which I took over from my brother in 2013, who bought it new in early 1972 in Geneva, Switzerland. Nor am I a motor nerd or mechanical geek - I just love driving the extraordinary thing, especially here in the swiss alps. Fluid pleasure. I'm 70 years old. The bike is 'unrestored' other than perishables being replaced and a few bits of hardware that got damaged through the bike sitting in Bro's garage for nearly thirty years. Whilst I have an excellent old-timer Norton (and other bikes) mechanic, something of a rare species here in Switzerland, he is far away and I am now leaning in to doing basic servicing myself, with some trepidation, even though I am a competent enough 'bricoleur' (handyman) as they say here in the french speaking part of this little and beautiful country. The pages, if there were pages in this forum, are already becoming well-worn as I plough through the mind-bogglingly varied wealth of information posted. Thank you, contributors, for your passion, and thank you, Norton Commando, for being such an idiosyncratic and compelling machine.