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- Jun 13, 2010
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I want thank everyone who has replied, even the gentlemen who thinks I should be riding a Honda or something.
I have printed out all the suggestions and will review each one while sitting in front of MY Commando and work through the lot. Once I have done so I will either report back with a huge smile on my face, or seeking further suggestions. Namibia is not the first world or for that matter the second, if I owned an old German bike this would be cake.
There are many old Germans here who have the collective memory to work on their vintage bikes. I have the only Commando in the country and one of only three Norton's. FYI Namibia is about the size of Texas. As far as I know there are only a handful in South Africa, so I am faced with the difficult task of working out the problems in the middle of nowhere with one hand tied behind my back, blindfolded. The others being a Manx and and Atlas.
I rescued this bike from a dusty garage where it sat for 15 years. The first part of the restoration was everything but the internals of the engine and the gear box, figuring that the next time I had a slug of cash lying around I would take them out, crate them up and send them of to CNW.
As for Honda boy surely you were not born with a Norton shoved up somewhere, so presumably you too like the rest of us had to buy your first one. I didn't get to buy my first when I was a teenager, but for the next 40 years it was the only bike I really wanted to own so hopefully that is a good enough reason.
I have printed out all the suggestions and will review each one while sitting in front of MY Commando and work through the lot. Once I have done so I will either report back with a huge smile on my face, or seeking further suggestions. Namibia is not the first world or for that matter the second, if I owned an old German bike this would be cake.
There are many old Germans here who have the collective memory to work on their vintage bikes. I have the only Commando in the country and one of only three Norton's. FYI Namibia is about the size of Texas. As far as I know there are only a handful in South Africa, so I am faced with the difficult task of working out the problems in the middle of nowhere with one hand tied behind my back, blindfolded. The others being a Manx and and Atlas.
I rescued this bike from a dusty garage where it sat for 15 years. The first part of the restoration was everything but the internals of the engine and the gear box, figuring that the next time I had a slug of cash lying around I would take them out, crate them up and send them of to CNW.
As for Honda boy surely you were not born with a Norton shoved up somewhere, so presumably you too like the rest of us had to buy your first one. I didn't get to buy my first when I was a teenager, but for the next 40 years it was the only bike I really wanted to own so hopefully that is a good enough reason.