Commando Choppers please

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I may end up with Buell brakes like that and note its got winter riding in mind with the header heaters aimed to heat the ole groin joint. Ya know that seat is going break down at some point so pilot needs some thick skin to take the flake of Nortoneers and you know what.
 
Commando Choppers please
 
Yeah strikes me same way - as brilliant appealing spoof that just shouldn't appeal so much to some of us. i've most a spare Combat engine and tranny so am sorely tempted.
 
I think a car rear tire is better than a car front tire on Commandos, don't you?

Commando Choppers please

Another black sheep's sad sack story
“For Yves this bike was incongruous in his stable—but for me, it was the Holy Grail. Despite its numerous stylistic faults, this English bike just reeked of California.”
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http://www.bikeexif.com/norton-850-commando

painstakingly reconstructed it, piece by piece. “I would go off riding, and it would break down. I’d repair the problem, and then find another,” he says. “Our relationship was up and down: full of joys and despair, frustrations, the desire to abandon the project, and then to start it again.”
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With the little pressure guage showing, it must be air suspension that lifts up in a few seconds after starting and power to pump air. May be an air cylinder about where a mono shock would go.
 
Matt Spencer said:
Get intresting if the motor cut in a long sweeper . :twisted:
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Matt, I'm sitting here in a McDonalds having breakfast, using their wi-fi to check my e-mail etc....and you just made me laugh out loud and spill my coffee...that's damn funny my man :D
 
Now I see its a Monroe rear air shock like on my car which holds air until some let out on purpose or springs a leak while riding to leave sparks till stopped with engine running or not.
 
Aw shoot, its still a motorcycle, so is innately senseless if not out right stupid so why not make one that drops jaws at its un-common sense gear head art. Peel has air station and air muscles already so kind of makes sense to me. In fact thot about a wood version the forks tilt fully too. Oh I"d fire proof it for Norton ralleys.
 
68 commando that was choppered in the late 70's was ridden a little then parked up. Last taxed in 86.
A real child of the 70's....
I am in the process of restoring back to original. It's not that I don't like chops, it's just that I really love the look of the first fastbacks.
As an engineer and a self confessed bike nut I don't think there is a bike that I haven't found something interesting on, be it old, modern, chop, or standard. I don't always like the look of them all but I like the engineering. In fact some bikes were so bad or ugly they should be modified.... Just not fastbacks!!!

My next project will be a bobbed hinkley bonnie. :D
 

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I've seen some eye-gougingly horrific things in this thread when I've had the courage to look but this has taken obscenity to a whole new level with just a few changes.
 
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