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Earls Court show 1968 ...

... and the Commando is a 'star' of the show.

I had already had lots of 'experience' with British bikes and I recall walking straight past the Commando to drool over a 650cc Mercury, being very lonely tucked in away in a corner.

I even got a sales leaflet for the Mercury and quite envy a chap in Australia who bought one brand new and which is still giving him good service today, some 44 years later.

Somehow, the Commando must have tapped into something in the typical British bikers mindset or it would'nt have kept winning that MCN poll year after year.

Presumably that long dormant ideal is the reason for the latest Commando - a new design - a very tough thing to succeed at but Bloor managed it with Triumph so maybe Garner and his people have a chance.

Facts not fiction or.......

Figments of a wild imagination

Some of the most prestigious racing events were won by Norton motorcycles. They won ten times during the wars and then continued winning every year from 1947 to 1954.

Shimming - 5 mins, not according to the experts in the owners club.

The headsteady has to come off, air cleaner or 's.
I'd drop the rear wheel to lighten it up, the fender and battery box and the oil tank, so you have total access to the iso's.
Then you can lower the engine, trans, cradle assm. to clear the iso mounts.

There are some very knowledgable people on this forum, and then there are the idiots who choose to argue against fact.

Better than the old Commando?

It occurred to me that if you are in the market for a big, beefy 750 from that period then there is a far better bike out there, which is very smooth, does not leak oil and out accelerates a Commando (or anything else from that era) from 0-60 mph and furthermore, is Made in England.

I'm thinking of the Royal Enfield Mark II Interceptor and the variant Rickman Interceptor.

RE had a facility which enabled them to dynamically balance crankshafts and this seems to have made a huge difference to the smoothness of the engine.

Sometimes 'the best' is totally overlooked.

Now then bratale

Do you bat for the other sideYou do talk some shoite.

Why do you think you know better than the club experts who have been riding and maintaining Commandos for the past 40 years. You don't own a Commando and you aren't in the club. You are coming across as a silly bullshitter.

But if you believe your own bullshit, that's ok then.

brutale

don't waste your breath, man is a t*t. So what if anyone batted for the other side, you either know what your talking about or you don't. This is the prick who bangs on about discrimination????? Not saying you do, but who cares