Nostalgia gone mad?

cjandme · Sep 13, 2015

thanks for the photos, nice to see it as it sits now and also in it's previous glory days

ashman · Sep 13, 2015

You got everything there to make it look good the way it is, just give it a good paint job and do a few things that suit your own taste without spending a big bucket of money, use what you got, maybe a set of fish tail mufflers, remember its still a chopper, just make it your own, it seems to be complete the way it is.

Ashley

acotrel · Sep 14, 2015

I used to have hotted up 650 Triumphs which were quite quick. Once I was between bikes and built one of my motors into a rigid frame. It was petrifying to ride fast.

fiatfan · Sep 14, 2015

IT RUNS!!! Sunday: poured some oil in the tank and the box, fresh gas in the tank, ignition on and....no. Found out after a while and a few start attempts that I didn´t need to enrich the fuel mix (to use the choke in Swedish, don´t know the English or American expression). I have no experience of these Mikunis, but I´ll learn. So I tried again, and then it started up, just like that! I only ran it for a minute, my garage is in the basement of a neighbouring house, so I didn´t want to disturb the Sunday calm. But it feels great, it ran easy after 10 or 11 years of sleep. So if the weather keeps up I´ll go for a short testdrive in a day or two.

[/acotrel] I never rode really fast, just "highway fast", maybe 100-130 km/h, steady as a rock. You probably had a whole different experience....

[/ashman] Yes the bike is complete, but I don´t like the way it looks! So I have to do something about that, I just have to.....

[/cjandme] Thanks for the thumbs up, it sure was the glory days! (and I want them back )

Tommy

Nater_Potater · Sep 14, 2015

Rock on! I can only imagine how much of an oil cloud it created in an enclosed area. Did you get video to post to Youtube?

Nathan

o0norton0o · Sep 14, 2015

This is by far the nicest version of a rigid norton commando I have ever seen. If it was my bike, I would leave it just like it appears below... Sweet!

fiatfan · Sep 15, 2015

Nater_Potater said:
Rock on! I can only imagine how much of an oil cloud it created in an enclosed area. Did you get video to post to Youtube?

Nathan

Hi Nathan!
Thanks, but I sadly have to report that there was no cloud of oil

, was a bit surprised, started thinking in the terms of "did I really fill any oil?". But I had, it just didn´t smoke, and I didn´t run it that long either, so it never did come up in temperature. I also noted when I removed the rocker covers to pour oil in there that the engine seems to be very clean inside. I´m wondering if it has done so many miles at all, the oil that was in it was also very clean, I was a bit surprised when it poured out of the engine and the oiltank.
I did shoot a short video with my phone, but I haven´t posted it on the tube. I tried to write a comment once about a music clip I think, but that didn´t end well. It was registration here and bl-y facebook there and who knows what, so I just couldn´t bother :evil: . I might try again some time...

Tommy

fiatfan · Sep 15, 2015

o0norton0o said:
This is by far the nicest version of a rigid norton commando I have ever seen. If it was my bike, I would leave it just like it appears below... Sweet!

Hi, and thanks!
Maybe I´ll ship it (not the engine of course) to you later this coming winter? Glad you like it, but I still don´t, can´t get to grips with this riding position, feet up front which is ok, but then you have the handlebars far in front, and low as well, I just don´t get it! I´ve found some old handlebars that´s a bit higher, testing that now. But luckily we all have different opinions, if not it would be a pretty boring life! I´ve just received a big pile of documents on the bike from the authorities, and this version of the bike was actually built already in 1990. That seems a little early for this style, but that´s the facts. The frame is built here in Sweden, and the rest is pieces from different bikes and some homemade parts as well.

Tommy

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