Pictures of your Norton Commandos

DogT said:

Nice concours, looks straight up.

Dave
69S

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Thanks, she's a rider, functional upgrades only, Halogen lamp, modern rubber. Leaving nine days from today for here: http://www.britbike.com/forums/ubbthrea ... =24&page=1

That's all we need, a rider. Good luck with your trip and many more.

Dave
69S

Couple of very nice, clean, solid, classic Commando Roadsters here lately...

The world doesn't get much better than that, really.

Guess I never did add a pic here. Little rough around the edges but it's MY Freakin Combat. :mrgreen:

Coolio. Love the yellow combats. Nice specimen.

Dave
69S

Hi concours, what is the rear tire you are running, is it an Avon?
Regards Mike

Out for a run on Saturday night with Mrs R checking out the bikes for the forthcoming trip to Ireland followed by the Isle of Man!

Great looking bike. Could I get details about the drive chain adjusters. My BSA has the same type of square tube swing arm but
the rear wheel adjusters were boged together. Thanks

The red Norton has a C & J Frame. The swing arm was hand made by them. I don't know if he is still making frames.

A couple of bikes new to the forum. The '74 Roadster I purchased off eBay about 4 years ago, and it's been sitting in a basement ever since. It's a fairly low mileage bike, 10K miles, but as with all the old Nortons that haven't been completely gone through, I'm sure it needs everything checked from the front tire to the rear. So I'll tear it down and do a full ground up restore on it. The paint is in great shape, though, so at least I won't have to paint it. The photo is from the eBay auction, so no need to write or post to say the tank isn't mounted correctly.


The '75 Mk III I first road about 30 years ago. At that time it was for sale for $2,800 , which was about $800 more than the value of it. The guy who owned it at the time was a fisherman who spent a lot of time up in Alaska, while the bike remained in Washington up on Camano Island. I didn't buy the bike, but I always remembered how strong and fresh the engine seemed when I took it for a test ride. About 10 years later, a friend of mine expressed an interest in acquiring a Commando, as he had seen the several I had at that time, and was familiar with Nortons because he had been an off-road P11 rider at one time. Well I still remembered the guy's name who owned this bike, Ken Brown, so I looked up his phone number and rang him up. He still had the bike and was interested in selling it. My friend bought it, and then proceeded to have the whole bike gone through at Poke's Cycle in Seattle (anybody here ever frequent Poke's?), with the engine being completely rebuilt, front end, shocks, Akront wheels, etc., and then only rode it occasionally during the summer months for the next 16 years -- only 500 miles since he'd had the rebuild and all the work done. Anyhow, shortly after my friend had originally purchased the bike from Ken Brown, in a moment of weakness on my part, I allowed him to talk me into selling him the Dunstalls you see on it, but I did so with the condition that if he was ever going to sell the bike that I would either get the mufflers back or have 1st right of refusal to buy the bike. Well when it comes to Nortons 16 years can pass pretty quickly, and a few years ago he called me up and told me he was planning on selling the bike. I knew the history of it all the way back to the original owner, and was familiar with how much work had gone into the engine, so I couldn't pass it up. It looks good but there's a lot of little stuff that needs to be done to it to make it road worthy. The bike has 4600 original miles on it.


Lots of other Norton stories to add, which I'll try to get around to doing.

I have an umolested 75MK3 Interstate that I bought in Woodinville Washington a few years ago. I'm the third owner. Owners 1& 2 used Poke's Cycle for all the work on that bike. It came to me with a considerable stack of bills from them, nothing major, mostly routine maintenance and even some custom polishing, which was quite expensive.

I cant imagine paying good money to have polishing done, its a labour of love thing, but at least both owners were serious about keeping the bike running and looking good.
I only met the second owner. He spoke very highly of Pokes

Glen

New to this site for about a week or so.....now i'm addicted. Here's my 75 850 mk3. Sat for 10 years, due to a broken leg(no kicking that over for years!), plus no money. This year was final....that bike will get back on the road. Done...running better than it has ever!!!!! I'm second owner, have all original sales paperwork, want to keep as original as possible. Only real change was the k&n airfilter. I posted earlier and would love input......what new mufflers should i use? I really appreciate the responses i got on my previous post.

jnorton said:

I posted earlier and would love input......what new mufflers should i use? I really appreciate the responses i got on my previous post.

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Come on now, you KNOW you want to fit peashooters! Do we really have to convince you?

I was really tickled when I read your post, or should I say mis-read it, as the first question that came to mind was ---what exactly was it that you were smoking that was so bad it made you think you needed to start a restoration on that beautiful Interstate. I know, I know,..... my timing stinks, since there have already been a few posts since yours,(I never was very good at telling jokes), but I couldn't resist. Cj

mrdiy59 said:

well here`s my attempt at posting ( im new to this fantastic site) this is the last time she went out, june 09 to the norton celebration at donnington,when we got back i decided to sort out a bad smoking problem which in turn led to a ground up restoration (which i hope to finnish soon)

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Not Mine , but Close . Same town , anyway . same time . Chronometrecally , or is that chronologally .

http://www.flickr.com/photos/travelling ... otostream/

Ex. Rys Jones ( Journalist ) Dunstall , impoorted from U.K. to N.Z. 1970s .

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Hi all, its been a while since my last posting. Been busy running in my new "toy" (Ducati Multstrada 1200 ST). Anyway, I thought that I'd post the final stage of my Commando setup. Not totally "concourse" but goes pretty well now - especially with JS flatsides. Cheers.

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beautiful, nice mirrors too

WOW! You keep that in a vacuum sealed pouch, for freshness? The past 35 years. :mrgreen:

shrugger said:

WOW! You keep that in a vacuum sealed pouch, for freshness? The past 35 years. :mrgreen:

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Very close shrugger, 90% of the parts did. :lol:

This was the before picture. Doesn't look too bad in the picture but required a lot of work to get it as it is now. The bike hadn't run for twenty years, so a bit of time, spanners and paint has now given me something I'm a bit proud of.

Nice job Uggy850 !!