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Not so sure about the profound part... Honestly even though I have a lot of motorcycling time on the clock and have played around setting up plenty of motorcycle suspensions, as have many others here, most of what I said is in manuals that came with motorcycles I have owned in the past. Plus it could be totally wrong and your pipes are sticking out on the side too far.

I'm not familiar with doing anything to Roadholder forks or Girling shocks. The Norton I've had for 49 years had no suspension on it when I got it. I didn't put it back together as original. The stock suspension on a 70's something Commando I had for a while in the 1980's worked pretty good, but I was a lot younger and stronger then. I'm 30lbs lighter weight than you are as well.

Ashman's last reply in post #23 makes sense to me given the suspension you have. It could be the least expensive option to work with.

If you want to spend money, talk to Maxton Suspension about replacing it all. I believe they are familiar with what works on a Commando.

<blockquote data-quote="Schwany" data-source="post: 647887" data-attributes="member: 10834">Not so sure about the profound part... Honestly even though I have a lot of motorcycling time on the clock and have played around setting up plenty of motorcycle suspensions, as have many others here, most of what I said is in manuals that came with motorcycles I have owned in the past. Plus it could be totally wrong and your pipes are sticking out on the side too far. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I&#039;m not familiar with doing anything to Roadholder forks or Girling shocks. The Norton I&#039;ve had for 49 years had no suspension on it when I got it. I didn&#039;t put it back together as original. The stock suspension on a 70&#039;s something Commando I had for a while in the 1980&#039;s worked pretty good, but I was a lot younger and stronger then. I&#039;m 30lbs lighter weight than you are as well. Ashman&#039;s last reply in post #23 makes sense to me given the suspension you have. It could be the least expensive option to work with.If you want to spend money, talk to Maxton Suspension about replacing it all. I believe they are familiar with what works on a Commando.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Schwany, post: 647887, member: 10834"] Not so sure about the profound part... Honestly even though I have a lot of motorcycling time on the clock and have played around setting up plenty of motorcycle suspensions, as have many others here, most of what I said is in manuals that came with motorcycles I have owned in the past. Plus it could be totally wrong and your pipes are sticking out on the side too far. :) I'm not familiar with doing anything to Roadholder forks or Girling shocks. The Norton I've had for 49 years had no suspension on it when I got it. I didn't put it back together as original. The stock suspension on a 70's something Commando I had for a while in the 1980's worked pretty good, but I was a lot younger and stronger then. I'm 30lbs lighter weight than you are as well. Ashman's last reply in post #23 makes sense to me given the suspension you have. It could be the least expensive option to work with. If you want to spend money, talk to Maxton Suspension about replacing it all. I believe they are familiar with what works on a Commando. [/QUOTE]

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