What Did You Do With Your Commando Today?

Stevo said:
After repositioning the gauge to sit centrally behind headlight, finally got out yesterday on the Commando for a trial ride with the oil gauge fitted. Pressure is around 50-55psi on cold starting. After around eighteen miles running at 3 - 4k rpm, pressure settled to 33-35psi at that speed. Got home and pressure was around 15psi at idle of 1100rpm.
I’m happy with those results at the moment judging by comments of others and the 10psi per 1k rpm rule of thumb.
Whaddya think guys?
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I've had 27 psi hot engine at cruise rpm, for 35,000 miles.
 
Torontonian said:
Vancouver can be year round riding . Wet and grey winters . We will visit again next season . Surrey , Sooke , Bowen Island , Granville , Skeena R. We will have a car . Tonight I am assembling the head onto engine no. 2 , Enjoy .
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There are some secret micro climates happening here. We are in South Langley near the US border.
Ten miles north of us gets 80" rain per year. Ten to the east gets about the same. North Van gets 100"! Surrey gets about 60"
Tsaawwassen/ White Rock and South Langley get about 40" and a fair bit of winter sunshine. It makes things tolerable!

Glen
 
worntorn said:
There are some secret micro climates happening here. We are in South Langley near the US border.
Ten miles north of us gets 80" rain per year. Ten to the east gets about the same. North Van gets 100"! Surrey gets about 60"
Tsaawwassen/ White Rock and South Langley get about 40" and a fair bit of winter sunshine. It makes things tolerable!

Glen
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Tsawwassen (sp. ) ferry terminal , Langley , White Rock we did last season in the car . This season's flight will include a kind offer to go fishing on a 36 footer moored at Genoa Bay . We just baked up a pink from Sept. 20 th tonight , caught in Campbell River . . I flew back with 4 , frozen , heads and tails off , gutted , wrapped 5 x. in plastic bags as carry on luggage . Uber home from Pearson and still frozen on arrival and into our freezer . Second time I've done this and 2024 will be the 3 rd . Saw an old Triumph parked at Bowen Island dock . Apparently there is an older Norton on Bowen Is . too , not Commando , I'll investigate more in 2024 summer ..Enjoy .
 
I'm going to add a heated clothing circuit to the wiring. It should be easy to do with this under seat fuse box.
That way I can get out on this bike on sunny winter days, providing the roads gave been washed free of salt.
The 920 is becoming the go to bike.
It has comfort, loads of power and, most importantly, is very light in weight.
 

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You will love the electric vest . It can buy you an extra month ridings in frozen Canada . Mine has an inline fuse that has never popped . I have 2 leads to 2 vests if necessary , for the wife . Like to this multiple power bleed off device . Details ?
I shed some weight this past season by removing the center stand and also the kicker itself . That's 20 lbs. or so right there gone .
 
We are generally pretty lucky with winter here on the WestCoast. Most years give us at least a few good riding days in each of the winter months. The heated vest definitely helps. I'm thinking of adding heated pants, that should make riding in the mid 40s f comfortable. This bike has an rm 23 stator, it should keep up.

Would you like details on the fuse box or the bike ?

Glen
 
Sub tropics here and all year round riding, our winter is best not cooking our brains out, been over 32c here and some 35c+ days and very humid after the rain we been having, feels like 40+ temps and late afternoon storms and its only just started summer, looking at a very hot Xmas but we are use to its, but the good thing we only get very mild winters with day temps around 18c to about 24c and winter nights of 6c around 12c, we only got 2 real cold night last winter.
Love riding my Norton in the cold runs so much better, but then it runs pretty good all year round even on hot days, the Lochart oil cooler works a treat.
Couldn't handle being shut down for the cold and I have never experienced snow in my 65 years of life.
Anyway hope you do get out early from himation.

Ashley
 
I couldn't take that heat!
Once in awhile I've encountered very high temps when touring to the south and it is scary dangerous.

Glen
 
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Well we live in the conditions same as anywhere else it's not those temps all the time and you pick the days you want to ride, under 30c it's a great day out, it's not the heat that gets us here it's the humidity that the kill joy, but same it's not like that all the time, today its 28c just right and living close to Moreton Bay (just over 1km) I am up high and we get good sea breezes in the afternoons which is quite nice except when a northly is blowing it get real hot then and being on the east side of the Great Divide Range that runs up the whole east coast of Australia it's not bad but get over the western side of the Range and temps are a lot hotter, 70% of the population lives close to the coast of Australia and we live in the hottest and driest Contenant in the world.
We suffer some extreme weather down under, as I write there is a cyclone forming off the top end of my state of Queensland, first one for this time of year, still a long way off shore but it's building.
But we adapt to the conditions and we are a friendly and relaxed bunch down under and I heard Canada is much the same in attitude as us Aussies.
But wouldn't have it any other way, we live in the best country in the world (my opinion) but our leaders have let us down, greed and cost of living is getting out of hand.

Ashley
 
ashman said:
Sub tropics here and all year round riding, our winter is best not cooking our brains out, been over 32c here and some 35c+ days and very humid after the rain we been having, feels like 40+ temps and late afternoon storms and its only just started summer, looking at a very hot Xmas but we are use to its, but the good thing we only get very mild winters with day temps around 18c to about 24c and winter nights of 6c around 12c, we only got 2 real cold night last winter.
Love riding my Norton in the cold runs so much better, but then it runs pretty good all year round even on hot days, the Lochart oil cooler works a treat.
Couldn't handle being shut down for the cold and I have never experienced snow in my 65 years of life.
Anyway hope you do get out early from himation.

Ashley
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That sounds like perfect beer drinking weather.
 
BERT said:
That sounds like perfect beer drinking weather.
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Beer fridge is always stocked in the shed, well enough for me as I have a mate who don't like to put his hands in his pockets (bit of a free loader) so no more free beers for him, as for the other mates they always bring their own as they drink light beer 3.3% (bunch of girls lol) I drink Coppers 5.8% and it's naturally brewed, or sometimes Coppers stout which is 6.3%, now that gets you rocking and can be dangerous if you have too many (as I found out one night) went arse up on my shed stool and as I went down the bridge of my nose and the top frame rail of my Featherbed frame were a perfect match (had the tank and seat off at the time) done a bit of damage to myself and was worst next day, lucky I was pissed as I didn't feel a thing till next day (2 black eyes and a twisted nose).
 
worntorn said:
I'm going to add a heated clothing circuit to the wiring. It should be easy to do with this under seat fuse box.
That way I can get out on this bike on sunny winter days, providing the roads gave been washed free of salt.
The 920 is becoming the go to bike.
It has comfort, loads of power and, most importantly, is very light in weight.
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Glen,
Did you set that m/c up with negative earth?
Thanks,
Mike
 
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ashman said:
Beer fridge is always stocked in the shed, well enough for me as I have a mate who don't like to put his hands in his pockets (bit of a free loader) so no more free beers for him, as for the other mates they always bring their own as they drink light beer 3.3% (bunch of girls lol) I drink Coppers 5.8% and it's naturally brewed, or sometimes Coppers stout which is 6.3%, now that gets you rocking and can be dangerous if you have too many (as I found out one night) went arse up on my shed stool and as I went down the bridge of my nose and the top frame rail of my Featherbed frame were a perfect match (had the tank and seat off at the time) done a bit of damage to myself and was worst next day, lucky I was pissed as I didn't feel a thing till next day (2 black eyes and a twisted nose).
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Those featherbed frames are supposed to be feel soft
 
worntorn said:
We are generally pretty lucky with winter here on the WestCoast. Most years give us at least a few good riding days in each of the winter months. The heated vest definitely helps. I'm thinking of adding heated pants, that should make riding in the mid 40s f comfortable. This bike has an rm 23 stator, it should keep up.

Would you like details on the fuse box or the bike ?

Glen
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fusey boxey thingy please .
 
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