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Provide some heat and radio in your shop Phil as it takes a bit of bargaining to move Norton project into your gal's living room for comfort like me. I'm good I don't have to go through the learning curve balls of growing up again. If shopping for a cycle new or used, find out your mates favorite color and only show her photo's of example in that color for approval, not what ya actually bringing home, sheeze.
 
dennisgb said:
I work in engineering and we have a lot of young engineers coming on our staff on a continuous basis. About one in 10 have any common sense or practical experience. Today everything comes from a book. They think they can solve any problem with formulas or charts. The thing is they don't know what the problem is in the first place because they have no trouble shooting skills. It's the way of the world. We told them they wouldn't get anywhere without an education so they all went to school and we bought them cars and gave them everything they wanted. They spent their youth playing video games instead of fixing the lawnmower engine or wrenching on the car.

I'm retiring this summer because I can't get anything done anymore. I spend most of my time either fixing the things that all these young engineers mess up or spinning my wheels because there is no one that can do anything anymore. They all put on the best dang meetings and talk about how they have the solution over and over though.
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Then it doesn't offer a lot of hope for the future does it?
In this country, laws are continually invented to protect idiots from themselves.
But those inventing the laws are also complete idiots. It is a vicious circle.

In Queensland some time back, there was discussion about a law to enforce protective riding gear. I nearly flipped when I heard that one. Just leave us alone!!!

Nothing against proper riding gear. But not to the bloody shops and back.

The lunatics are running the asylum!!
 
hobot said:
Provide some heat and radio in your shop Phil as it takes a bit of bargaining to move Norton project into your gal's living room for comfort like me. I'm good I don't have to go through the learning curve balls of growing up again. If shopping for a cycle new or used, find out your mates favorite color and only show her photo's of example in that color for approval, not what ya actually bringing home, sheeze.
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The first house I built was a pole house, designed by me. The entrance door was from the carport and I used to ride the Norton in and park it in the bathroom. It was a perfect set up until the ex arrived on the scene.

I like the Norton parked in the car port because every morning I can see it out the bedroom window. But I'm worried one day I will get up and not see it at all. Then there is the second one coming, and maybe more.


So stay calm Hobot, I have it all under control.
What could possibly go wrong?
 
phil yates said:
Then it doesn't offer a lot of hope for the future does it?
In this country, laws are continually invented to protect idiots from themselves.
But those inventing the laws are also complete idiots. It is a vicious circle.

In Queensland some time back, there was discussion about a law to enforce protective riding gear. I nearly flipped when I heard that one. Just leave us alone!!!

Nothing against proper riding gear. But not to the bloody shops and back.

The lunatics are running the asylum!!
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You hit the nail on the head there. Really a bit afraid of the future. When the idiots are in charge on both ends...well we all can figure that one out.

I think I'll go ride one of my cycles and forget about it :D
 
Yep Peter pan the ole Shadow stealing crook icon sure appeals to me. Savor your time with your Commando crazy brother. I got my second Commando so Dale and me would have something common beside fighting over stuff but a deer about killed me a few weeks later and he'd died in the 3 yrs it took me to recover my neck/brain cracking and crushed Trixie. Collecting Trixie was our last long cage trip together. Best wishes staying out of the dog house unless more pleasant there for a time. I got 150 miles in today on SuVee650 errands in peak of springtime tree blooming and so many bikers of all kinds I gave up waving and just nod sharing the road glow. Maybe I'l be mood to take Trixie down to crank and reseal everything tomorrow out in the garage. Shed filled with mower project waiting on parts.
 
hobot said:
Yep Peter pan the ole Shadow stealing crook icon sure appeals to me. Savor your time with your Commando crazy brother. I got my second Commando so Dale and me would have something common beside fighting over stuff but a deer about killed me a few weeks later and he'd died in the 3 yrs it took me to recover my neck/brain cracking and crushed Trixie. Collecting Trixie was our last long cage trip together. Best wishes staying out of the dog house unless more pleasant there for a time. I got 150 miles in today on SuVee650 errands in peak of springtime tree blooming and so many bikers of all kinds I gave up waving and just nod sharing the road glow. Maybe I'l be mood to take Trixie down to crank and reseal everything tomorrow out in the garage. Shed filled with mower project waiting on parts.
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A woman in an extreme state of discontent (which happens on occasions) is not a good thing to have near your Norton. Just ask the guy who was building a wooden ultra light aircraft in his living room. It was converted into firewood.

No, I would prefer the Commando be kept safe in the garage than risk its life in the house. As for building or working on a Norton in the living room? That is just too dangerous to contemplate.

Have you ever been struck heavily from behind with a combat head?
 
Phil I havn't had to worry about being shot in my sleep but had one wife bust up my favorite JFK type wooden rocking chair I lived in going though schools. In that case she'd also found my pear handled chrome and gold plated Officers .45 ACP and threatened to do herself with it, so upset she dropped phone few times. Oh how I contested with myself most of that night trying to talk her out of it, all the while realizing my troubles would be easy over if I'd only say, "Prove it Bitch!" Yet Rebecca is now only ex-mate that's interested and still interesting enough to email about weekly last few years. I believe i was the main one that fucked up with Rebecca who was so psychic I'd routinely pick up phone while dating and before even dialing or getting dial tone and she'd already be on the line with a sweet sarcastic "Yeah what ya want this time" remark. I actually love it when woman mostly control my life, both in my clinics and at home so tested my current wife Alicia about 9 yrs before deciding we could make it together and combined house holds and moved to the Ozarks to mainly fight over whose stuff goes where. I've managed to crave out a few spaces around her stuff so we get along and she's accepted my mc drain habit. Half my reason for Commmando side car is so she will join me now and then as she's seen the horrific traumas on me, blood pooled sack of exploded mm's and vessels, dangling by skin only major joints and out of my mind for a time with broken neck and skull brain swelling. So analogy holds marriage or Commandos for better or worse, till the end.
 
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Phil I havn't had to worry about being shot in my sleep but had one wife bust up my favorite JFK type wooden rocking chair I lived in going though schools. In that case she'd also found my pear handled chrome and gold plated Officers .45 ACP and threatened to do herself with it, so upset she dropped phone few times. Oh how I contested with myself most of that night trying to talk her out of it, all the while realizing my troubles would be easy over if I'd only say, "Prove it Bitch!" Yet Rebecca is now only ex-mate that's interested and still interesting enough to email about weekly last few years. I believe i was the main one that fucked up with Rebecca who was so psychic I'd routinely pick up phone while dating and before even dialing or getting dial tone and she'd already be on the line with a sweet sarcastic "Yeah what ya want this time" remark. I actually love it when woman mostly control my life, both in my clinics and at home so tested my current wife Alicia about 9 yrs before deciding we could make it together and combined house holds and moved to the Ozarks to mainly fight over whose stuff goes where. I've managed to crave out a few spaces around her stuff so we get along and she's accepted my mc drain habit. Half my reason for Commmando side car is so she will join me now and then as she's seen the horrific traumas on me, blood pooled sack of exploded mm's and vessels, dangling by skin only major joints and out of my mind for a time with broken neck and skull brain swelling. So analogy holds marriage or Commandos for better or worse, till the end.
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This whole forum is dedicated to Nortons where problems are discussed and solutions offered.
There is no such forum dedicated to women because there are no solutions.
They run how they want to run and there is no workshop manual.
 
I just treat em like pets, soft strokes, calm voice and sweet looks into their eyes. Of course even pets can still leave ya bleeding. If ya can work it out so no one wants to hurt each other studies show mated folks live longer better. Once sex was safe and motorcycles were dangerous, still is for me.
 
[quote="phil yates] If the Commando ever gets relegated to riding in groups with funny old men wearing pudding helmets[/quote]
Still There, Long After The Competition.

I resent that I think! I am the funny old man in a pudding helmet. Right side of 50 though. :D
 
In an arithmetical progression I'm also the right side of 50...have been for some years. I also live in a small town in the Southern Highlands but haven't come across Phil - or any wombats for that matter - did hit a 'roo last year though but luckily I was in the car.
 
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[quote="phil yates"
WOMEN
Highly temperamental. Running beautifully one week, like a bag of shit the next.
Needing constant love, care and attention.
VERY expensive to maintain.

NORTONS
Highly temperamental. Running beautifully one week, like a bag of shit the next.
Needing constant love, care and attention.
VERY expensive to maintain.

This whole forum is dedicated to Nortons where problems are discussed and solutions offered.
There is no such forum dedicated to women because there are no solutions.
They run how they want to run and there is no workshop manual.[/quote]
 
edward said:
In an arithmetical progression I'm also the right side of 50...have been for some years. I also live in a small town in the Southern Highlands but haven't come across Phil - or any wombats for that matter - did hit a 'roo last year though but luckily I was in the car.
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WOMBATS . =========

Are these Australian Combats , or women driver Combats ? ? .
 
No Matt you are getting confused with DINGBATS - many women drivers fall into this category and I daresay a few Combat owners. A WOMBAT is a slow moving marsupial generally easily avoided depending on ones state of inebriation.
 
edward said:
No Matt you are getting confused with DINGBATS - many women drivers fall into this category and I daresay a few Combat owners. A WOMBAT is a slow moving marsupial generally easily avoided depending on ones state of inebriation.
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Easily avoided if you see it. If they are so easily avoided, why are there so many we see dead on the side of the road? I guess you might answer all drivers are blind. In my case in the black of night on the very narrow Joadja road, coming around one of the few bends, I was confronted with one in the middle of the road, I had no where to go. I did mention I was in the car, not on the bike.
I was returning home from Sydney. That is the only one I have ever hit. I have friends though that live in the country areas surrounding us and they have hit more. Coming over the crest of a hill for example.

But without a doubt, kangaroos are the major problem as they come from no where, can even hit you from the side. West of Berrima, they are prolific (so too wombats). I would not ride my Norton out there at night under any circumstances. Around town, a completely different matter.
 
T.H said:
[quote="phil yates] If the Commando ever gets relegated to riding in groups with funny old men wearing pudding helmets
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I resent that I think! I am the funny old man in a pudding helmet. Right side of 50 though. :D[/quote][/quote]

I had a pudding basin helmet. But I am not sure if they are even legal for everyday use anymore. I am a "funny old man" too I guess, certainly in the eyes of modern motorcycle riders, for riding a Norton nearly 40 years old. But I find it just as useful for everyday riding as any modern day bike. Okay, the brakes are not great, it leaks a little oil and needs a lot of love and attention. Beyond that it does everything I want from a motorcycle. I see other motorcycles of the same era also on the road as transport. But I don't see early bikes used much in this way.

Perhaps Commandos will eventually become too outdated for regular use. Then only something you might see at a rally. But I hope not while I'm alive. I just don't like riding in groups. But everyone is different. Those who do, well that is fine with me. Not my business to tell anyone what they like to do. Similarly, not theirs to tell me, which has happened.

I just like riding my Commando on my own. I don't see anything wrong with that.
 
edward said:
No Matt you are getting confused with DINGBATS - many women drivers fall into this category and I daresay a few Combat owners. A WOMBAT is a slow moving marsupial generally easily avoided depending on ones state of inebriation.
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Just to add some info for our non Ozzy friends. In the country as a farmer, the wombat is a nightmare. On my farm I countered 42 enormous wombat holes on a 100 acre farm. They dig under houses, sheds, foundations, anything and open paddocks. I captured two and moved them to a national park, then found out moving them is illegal. The two empty holes were immediately taken over by new mates. Cattle fall down the holes and break their legs. The previous owner was riding his horse and went down one. He suffered permanent brain damage and was never the same, subsequently selling the farm to me.

They look cuddly, soft and furry. But they are as hard as a rock. The damage to my car was $3000.
Edward might live near me in a Southern Highlands town. I have never met or seen him on the road on a Norton either. But I can assure him riding your Norton at night in country here is fraught with peril. Slow moving or not they are a serious menace.
 
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