Awww C'mon Gary!!! No sense of adventure?
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Interesting motorcycles, not XS650
- Thread starter Kevin Werner
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Owning any British built motorcycle is plenty of adventure.
The Norton was hands down a more satisfying machine to ride.
Ring ding ding and a trail of smoke lose their appeal pretty quickly in day to day use.
Guess I've always had an anglophile gene.
2020
Hard to know for sure, but these current denizens are prolly Norton #7 and 8.
B
Beautiful Nortons. I had my 750 Kamakazee when I was 17, It had unbaffled racing chambers on it with tiny little stingers and 34mm Mikuni "smoothbores". it also went on a diet and weighed about 375lbs. I was a dumb kid and all that mattered to me was straightline acceleration. Got the chance to ride a '75 stocker a few years back. You're right, as much as I'd love to have another, I wouldn't want to ride it with any regularity.
And you lived through it!
Only by the grace of God. If I hadn't gotten rid of that bike, we wouldn't be having this conversation right now. My 17 y.o. grandson wants me to teach him how to ride. I told him wait until his brain matures a little....like at 40.And you lived through it!
I restored an H1 years ago and still have it. I can concur that this ^ is absolutely true.
Test rode an H1 when Kawasaki was sending prerelease samples around to the dealers. Fantastic power, but brakes and suspension were absolutely suicidal, wasn't even tempted by the murderous b----.
https://madison.craigslist.org/mcy/d/madison-1974-norton-commando-880cc/7488631613.html
880cc, 10.25 to 1, kick only. Let that sink in a for a bit.................
gees, wonder why it's for sale?
Walked by this out in the shed this morning, kicked it through, then scuttled off before bad things (that would probably involve a walking cast) happened.
880cc, 10.25 to 1, kick only. Let that sink in a for a bit.................
gees, wonder why it's for sale?
Walked by this out in the shed this morning, kicked it through, then scuttled off before bad things (that would probably involve a walking cast) happened.
I've let it sink in and I'm wondering whether that's got anything to do with it being ridden average only 103 miles each year?
The red one is yours? How are things on that front?
Got it running, rode it round the country block last fall. Ordered bunch of parts, that is all.
That's what they're saying........
I can buy it and get it ready to ship to you MM
Wonder if this was the "snowstorm ride" bike?
I see where Peter Egan once owned it. Nice guy. Met him at Road America in 1988. That provenance ought to add $5.00 to the value. BTW, beautiful bike!
Love to see that being ridden.
What! The exhaust bandage, the pipe, the paintwork, the tyres or the brown seat, the absence of a front guard??? All it needs to complete the look is a foot clutch and hand shifter, extended forks with no rake, a sissy bar and a rigid rear end - perfect!
