Most disliked / Least Useful Commando part - EDITED 2/26

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No kidding don't ya know that occurred to me too the instant clip didn't slam home first try. I don't use that "tanker" MI but once in a few years so I was rusty on its quirks and well aware of WWII "MI thumb" when bolt slams home with flesh in the way. I've photo of my father holding straight clip Thomson .45 cal with captured flag and a buddy later killed in another action. Flag had oaths of the Japanese solders hand signed to fight to the end so my heart breaks in great respect for those brave souls caught up in bankster caused wars. Banksters and related cults tops my list of most disliked least useful people and politics. I don't shoot but when I need to, roots and limbs and rocks and varmints getting into wife's chicken coup or cordless drill holes in metal, like to fasten wood down on cycle trailer as ya supposed to clean them which I get tired of on cycles too.
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OH YEAH another Norton list topper for me is the too short of springs in C'do Roadholders, to use up over ordered batch I assume, so factory made damper cap the fork top out stop. My solution was 2" longer damper rods and 2" spring spacer ya can mix-match for desired sag factor, slient top out and final hi rate anti-bottoming help with the routine bottom holes moved to functional location, staggered and sized for progressive indefinite sense of silent bottoming and reversal.
 
My vote goes to the high pipes on the 750s. Pipes crack at the front very quickly, dog leg rear mount cracks about 45 minutes later. Threads in head get chewed up and the passenger peg is rendered useless. Yet its the most distinctive sign of the "S" model. I'm pretty sure not a lot of thought went into the design. But if it looked like an offroad dirt bike, the Americans will buy them!.....ever tried a backwards summersalt on a Commando? You would be impaileded by the high pipes....the heat shields don't help the pain at all. And its hard to get through airport security with that friggen horn lodged in your rectum, and yes...every time you break wind your co-workers run for the fire exits.
 
kempoyner said:
And its hard to get through airport security with that friggen horn lodged in your rectum, and yes...every time you break wind your co-workers run for the fire exits.
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You made me laugh!
 
LOL. That's what I hear called DPO, D meaning, dear, departed, dumb or dedicated past owner. Hey how ya feel trying to line an acquired C'do's rear tire and fender with rear loop center?
 
hobot said:
LOL. That's what I hear called DPO, D meaning, dear, departed, dumb or dedicated pass owner. Hey how ya feel trying to line an acquired C'do's rear tire and fender with rear loop center?
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I dunno; mine's been crooked since it came out of the crate. I'm the DPO in this case...
 
Ugh, good point nater-tater, a lot of what is blamed on prior innocent owner-victims came that way form Norton. When I found 939 Amal flanges out of true a couple decades ago I or someone prior to me was accused of being the ham fisted cause of it, yet when I ordered two new Amals I mic'd em to find flanges and bore & throat shape/roundness and diameters off one to the other. There the tales of shipping crates dropped off truck as cause of bend stem/frame relations. There are a few famous motorcycles that became known as widow makers, H2's triple 2 smokes being one of them yet they didn't fracture their frames like early C-do's did. Commando's were a mere stop gap scab together model for Norton till they came up with a more modern model and did with the Rotary models priced sky hi out of most the public's range. To get a fully fettered Commando implies ya got most the rest of your life in order as well. I got a ways to go in that regard. I heard it said that a new Commando is merely a starter kit we get to finish, how ever we can, ignoring the full meaning of the term, "finish".
 
hobot said:
I heard it said that a new Commando is merely a starter kit we get to finish, how ever we can, ignoring the full meaning of the term, "finish".
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I hear ya! My last bike was a UJM Honda Nighthawk S (Sport?) that I just loved the hell out of, but it was almost too civil. I changed the fluids in the engine, fork, and rear-end (no chain to worry about), one set of spark plugs, then gave it to my son at 21,000 miles for a graduation present. 'the most worry- and trouble-free anything I've ever owned. I was bored stiff!
The Norton is more like my horse in that it requires constant attention and will never be perfect, but, as repairs and upgrades are performed, the road ahead becomes all the more fulfilling.
 
I haven't read all 9 pages so maybe this has been mentioned, but I don't like the MK3 throttle that requires a double jointed arm to rotate to wide open. I'd love to have a stock-appearing 90 degree twist grip.
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Gosh is there anything worth while on these ole clunkers that pleases anyone?
I've heard it said afteer living with "em"a whhile, if they weren't so cute,
There Be A Bounty on Em!
 
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