Pictures of your Norton 961

Taken at Dunsop Bridge in Lancashire, a few steps from here is the direct geographical centre of the UK................allegedly.
Pictures of your Norton 961
 
Taken at Dunsop Bridge in Lancashire, a few steps from here is the direct geographical centre of the UK................allegedly.
Pictures of your Norton 961
Well, I knew this site could be educational peebee but I didn’t think I’d be learning stuff on an international site about my home, whilst on the other side of the world! I have no memory of Dunsop Bridge although I hail from Accrington, which is less that 20 miles away and no doubt have blasted through there on many a motorcycle during my youth! The geographical centre of the UK, all the way ‘up North’ - well I never!!

Bought my first bike about half an hour from that spot, from Dixons Motorcycles who bought out Snape‘s. Thanks for the ride down memory lane!
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'Your welcome Stanley' :D Where about's in Oz are you, I lived near Newcastle NSW in the seventies, and bobbed around on a Honda XL250 but not in shorts and thongs.
 
'Your welcome Stanley' :D Where about's in Oz are you, I lived near Newcastle NSW in the seventies, and bobbed around on a Honda XL250 but not in shorts and thongs.
And what an area to be from
 
'Your welcome Stanley' :D Where about's in Oz are you, I lived near Newcastle NSW in the seventies, and bobbed around on a Honda XL250 but not in shorts and thongs.
On the Sunshine Coast of Qld, ‘beautiful one day, perfect the next’ as they say - except for the last 6 months when it has mostly been pissing it down:rolleyes:! Awesome biking roads all around us in the hinterland. Doesn’t matter where I go in the world, when Accrington is mentioned so is ‘Stanley’ and the famous milk add is bound to follow - to be parotted in a scouse accent of course.

 
tubed tyres, can't plug em. ?. Always been my worry.:eek:
Yes Peter , that’s my 3rd puncture in 29,000 miles , the new Michelins I have had on 3000 miles , bit of a wobble & thought I better stop , 2.5 hours wait for the recovery ( RAC ) which is good apparently, caught the bike shop just b4 they closed,left it there till next week.
Any suggestions anyone apart from carbon wheels ??
 
Yes Peter , that’s my 3rd puncture in 29,000 miles , the new Michelins I have had on 3000 miles , bit of a wobble & thought I better stop , 2.5 hours wait for the recovery ( RAC ) which is good apparently, caught the bike shop just b4 they closed,left it there till next week.
Any suggestions anyone apart from carbon wheels ??
Bloomin bad luck lad. Especially just before the bank holiday weekend with the weather the way it is. I recommend a three day Beer and BBQ binge and try to look on the bright side, the money you save on fuel will pay for the repair.
 
Yes Peter , that’s my 3rd puncture in 29,000 miles , the new Michelins I have had on 3000 miles , bit of a wobble & thought I better stop , 2.5 hours wait for the recovery ( RAC ) which is good apparently, caught the bike shop just b4 they closed,left it there till next week.
Any suggestions anyone apart from carbon wheels ??
There are kits available to seal the spokes and convert from tubed to tubeless. But I’ve no actual experience of using any.
 
Yes Peter , that’s my 3rd puncture in 29,000 miles , the new Michelins I have had on 3000 miles , bit of a wobble & thought I better stop , 2.5 hours wait for the recovery ( RAC ) which is good apparently, caught the bike shop just b4 they closed,left it there till next week.
Any suggestions anyone apart from carbon wheels ??
That sux Blighty - we’ve all been there!

I know that you ‘said apart from the carbon wheels’ but, would this not be a perfect time to canvas “er indoors” for a set? Gotta be worth a go! Or just go buy them and suffer the consequences - I’ve always found ‘picture no sound’ to be quite a relief on occasion. That said, when I’m blasting around on my CR I’m not carrying a puncture repair kit and means to inflate a road tyre, so the result is the same really.

If it makes you feel any better, I was 10 km short of my pub accomodation for the night on my around Aus trip when I got caught out by nightfall, after a 750km day. I then got a puncture; luckily at slow speed as riding at night in outback Aus is tantamount to suicide. I dragged it off the black top, decided against a painful roadside fix at night and put my tent up via torchlight - whilst being attacked by bugs that really needed a stretch of highway to land on! I swear I could hear the locals having fun in the pub just down the road! Punctures ain’t no fun!
 
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I’ve had better ride outs ! , today I have the absence of air in the rear tyre , AKA a puncture , so currently waiting for the recovery truck ☹️View attachment 98753
You were lucky to notice so quickly as when it is fully deflated it is almost impossible to get the side stand down. We had to push the bike onto a handy brick to be able to do so.
 
I wouldn't trust anything whatsoever from this company.
Ditto here.
If you want laced wire wheels without tubes, why not try something like BMW use.


I wish a mag wheel company would make a classic seven spoke mag wheel for the 961.
Something like the old Morris mags, nice dark gold anodized finish from the 70's.
 
You were lucky to notice so quickly as when it is fully deflated it is almost impossible to get the side stand down. We had to push the bike onto a handy brick to be able to do so.
I would love to claim that I was riding my 961 around Aus glb but that was’nt the case - I was on the mighty 990. My body would’t have made it half way across the Nullarbor on the CR - I’d also have to question whether the Norton would have made 18k km in 40 days or so, in that sort of territory.

Don’t see an easy fix for the side stand flat situation - a bit obscure to say the least.
 
There are kits available to seal the spokes and convert from tubed to tubeless. But I’ve no actual experience of using any.
I recently installed the Outex kit on the Triumph front.
It was fairly easy to do and air leakage is less than it was with the tube. The tube would lose about 1 or 2 psi per month, as most do.
The Outex kit has been in place for 2 months now and the air gauge still shows 32 psi as it did at time of installation.
I'll add Ride-on tire balancer and sealant to the mix and that should be it for flats.

Glen
 
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