just rode her home - eeeeekk!

roqueweiler said:

Any other odd expressions I won't know?
Tranny upside down too!

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Yes... "gearbox". There is no "tranny" on a Norton.

maylar said:

roqueweiler said:

Any other odd expressions I won't know?
Tranny upside down too!

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Yes... "gearbox". There is no "tranny" on a Norton.

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Unless it's the owner!

"unless it's the owner"

Hardee har har

You guys are hilarious.................

now, where is the heavy sarcasm button on the keyboard?

roqueweiler, You live in Vancouver then? I'm in Chilliwack. First time I took my bike out I felt like a smoke grenade went off every time I stopped..... Good times.

When I lived in my home town of Leyland (county of Lancashire, home of Leyland Motors) we reckond that for anything to go right, you had toi point your mouth towards Coppull, a small viallage about 5 miles away to the SSW!

Noe living in the very northwest corner of the US state of Washington, about 70 miles in a straight line from Vancouver, BC, I have a hard time figuring out which way is Coppull!

frankdamp said:

When I lived in my home town of Leyland (county of Lancashire, home of Leyland Motors) we reckond that for anything to go right, you had toi point your mouth towards Coppull, a small viallage about 5 miles away to the SSW!

Noe living in the very northwest corner of the US state of Washington, about 70 miles in a straight line from Vancouver, BC, I have a hard time figuring out which way is Coppull!

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Frank,

You still head towards Wigan and its on your left

A strange place indeed!

My first ride on my 71 norton was the worst and best ride of my life. I couldn't get the bike to leave the owners driveway. Every time I would push the gear shifter down into first gear it would stall the engine. Bike was missing the shift pattern pointer. Took about three or four tries before I realized the bike was in the wrong gear. My bike was an estate sell and the owners wife had never ridden this bike so she was no help. I had ridden many honda, yamaha, even k75 bmw, but this was my first real bike. I had wore out isolastics, leaking oil, and gas dripping from a cracked fiberglass fuel tank. With all that said, I was in heaven. These bikes have a sound and feel like no other. After adding another $5000 and three years of work I'm still in love.

I bought my Commando from a fairly experienced Norton owner. He looked at me and said "You know how to start her kid?"

I replied... "Ahh... Yeah".

Then when i couldn't, he started her for me. Then he looked at me and said "You know how to ride her son?"

I replied... "Ummm... Sure".

Then i stalled it (requiring him to start the bike again).

I then said "Ok cool, i'll ride her home!".

He then said "Nope". Put the bike in the back of his pick-up, drove it to my house, dropped it off and said "Good Luck!".

jsouthard said:

I bought my Commando from a fairly experienced Norton owner. He looked at me and said "You know how to start her kid?"

I replied... "Ahh... Yeah".

Then when i couldn't, he started her for me. Then he looked at me and said "You know how to ride her son?"

I replied... "Ummm... Sure".

Then i stalled it (requiring him to start the bike again).

I then said "Ok cool, i'll ride her home!".

He then said "Nope". Put the bike in the back of his pick-up, drove it to my house, dropped it off and said "Good Luck!".

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hee hee

Of course the obvious next question is:

"Do you know how to work on that Norton?"

Dang double-post, sorry...

grandpaul said:

jsouthard said:

hee hee

Of course the obvious next question is:

"Do you know how to work on that Norton?"

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"Ummm... Yes???"

My first Norton ride was on my current 750S back in '72 when some DC lawyer decided to sell his bike. It was in Arlington, VA, I test rode it down the GW parkway and across the Teddy Roosevelt bridge, down around the Lincoln Memorial, and back the same way. WAAHOO. I was hooked. One dollar per CC, sold. Having come off a Honda 500-4 that felt like it would tip over at any given moment, and the shifter on the Honda was on the "wrong" side since my first bike was a BSA B33 500, the Norton shifted just like the BSA, WAY COOL. Never looked back. Brit Iron Rules. Right shift rules, up one, down three, the way it ought to be. Sorry, didn't mean to rhyme; yes I did.

Dave
69S