Pictures of your Norton Commandos

Hobot · Mar 25, 2012

Nice new eye candy with blue and silver tank plus little nic nack details everywhere. Am I seeing things or is that a chopper size rear wheel? You can post me private if not admitting to it in public ; )

Jim, how do those pipes join, by a Y clamp fitting or welded together?
Looks like an over size chain master link holding primary shafts stable.

jeremy0201 · Mar 25, 2012

Well in that case lets just say its larger, which makes it a bear to put it on its center stand turns it in a two person job!!

comnoz · Mar 25, 2012

hobot said:
Jim, how do those pipes join, by a Y clamp fitting or welded together?
Looks like an over size chain master link holding primary shafts stable.

One side was welded solid and one side was a slip fit with springs.
The stabilizer on the trans worked great for saving the mainshaft. I was still lucky to make it through a race weekend with one gearbox. I used to carry two ready to go spares. I have boxes of gears with missing teeth. Jim

mikegray660 · Mar 25, 2012

comnoz said:
Here is a picture from my first cross country trip on my Commando. 1981 where I slept along the Missouri river on the way to the east coast. Jim

nice!damn i wished i had saved all my old trip photos :mrgreen: :shock:

comnoz · Mar 25, 2012

mikegray660 said:
comnoz said:

Here is a picture from my first cross country trip on my Commando. 1981 where I slept along the Missouri river on the way to the east coast. Jim

nice!damn i wished i had saved all my old trip photos :mrgreen: :shock:

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I wish I had some photos from the trips I did in the 70s. I was riding an N15 then but unfortunately the X got them. They are likely up in smoke. :cry:

grandpaul · Mar 26, 2012

comnoz said:
I had one of those king and queen seats on my bike once.

I just sold one on e-bay...

Hobot · Mar 26, 2012

I still have my K/Q seat. I can't find any down side to it but the turned up noses at rallies and forums : ) Before I upgraded Peels suspenstion the factory brick seat hurt me to get to pavement but K/Q saddle comforted me. If I ever get Peel going, sometimes I'll put on clunky K/Q seat and hard bags and 5 gal. size tank bag to confuse others in Ozark twisties and track days. Jim's Corvette emblems and stuck on logo trim are a neat flash back style. Another one in a row Commando.

conkers · Mar 27, 2012

Here's my project.... this is the picture from the advert when I bought it... nothing is bolted on, just hanging together...!

I hope to get it on the road and also do some classic races or parade laps with it....

Mike

grandpaul · Mar 28, 2012

Mike, looks like a fun cafe racer project.

Anything major wrong with it?

conkers · Mar 30, 2012

Define anything wrong with it....!

The seller said it was 90% complete... but what he meant was 90% of thebits are there but 50% of them are junk...!

I bought a complete motor that I am in the process of stripping/checking/rebuilding, which seems ok so far, just needs guides and rings, a hone. Hopefully the bearings are ok... Eng nr. 203887 would this have superblend fitted?

Gearbox is in bits... I suspect half the bits are missing there too... no wiring, the stator/rotor you've already seen on here...

Frame is looking ok, straight and powder coated...
Forks are magnesium adjustables from a KTM racer...

Wish me luck...

Mike

skydt · Mar 30, 2012

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This project has taken forever, had a thread on it but spent too much time in hospital to keep it time current, but here it is one step closer to the end, and many changes on the way, hope somebody likes it besides me! Cheers

skydt · Mar 30, 2012

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Here's another one I put together some years ago, wanted a PR so bad with dual disc front end, so I built one, only thing is have to chase rust from cast iron discs often or it looks like the photo, just getting ready to tear em off and sand clean, tank and seat and stuff are just sitting there not bolted. Cheers.

skydt · Mar 30, 2012

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Here's the last one I will post for now my Interpol. Took several trips home to England to collect all the hard to find pieces to build this from a little M/C shop in Leeds Yorkshire. Cheers.

Reggie · Mar 31, 2012

Nice bikes.
I had a standard(ish) JPN about 20 years ago.
I'm also in Leeds. Whereabouts did you get the bits from for the Interpol? Woosters, Startright?

ranmar850 · Mar 31, 2012

taken a couple of years ago, doesn't look any worse now. Only real difference visible would be the CNW single coil replacing the original--and Matt is making up a replacement warning light/ignition plate to go between the instruments.

conkers · Mar 31, 2012

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This project has taken forever, had a thread on it but spent too much time in hospital to keep it time current, but here it is one step closer to the end, and many changes on the way, hope somebody likes it besides me! Cheers

Really Nice....

Mike

Whitworth Ranch · Mar 31, 2012

Here is a '74 I borrowed from a friend for awhile. It needed a bit of work, so I did the work and rode it around a bit. It pretty much set the fuse for me to buy back the black '74 I sold more than 10 years ago. One of these days, my bike will be photogenic again (it's rather apart in the garage at the moment), and I will take pictures of it, instead.
Mark

swooshdave · Mar 31, 2012

Needs more yellow in this thread.

B.Rad · Apr 1, 2012

Lucas RER 25 reflectors for Fastback

to Mexico Mike RE lucas reflectors for you fastback.

if you want to get rid of the Amber RER14 that you have now on the front, and replace them with Lucas RER25 red and amber ones with beautiful chrome ring surround, go to ebay uk and type "Lucas RER25 reflector" in the search bar. you will get a stack of sellers selling the genuine item, not a cheap pattern part. These vastly enhance any Fastback or any Norton at all. They are dirt cheap at around 16 quid each
hopes this helps someone
B.Rad

grandpaul · Apr 1, 2012

Whitworth Ranch said:

Nice front brake.

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