1968 Norton-Villiers Commando shakedown test

[adventure steele]

Super happy today! First ride of the Year on the Norton-Villiers Commando 1968 one of the first 70 bikes ever made!!!

Still running her in.

Short shake down ride of about 20 miles the wind was really horrendous so not been able to use all the footage.

Feels such an honour to ride and own one of these the same model dad's bros Uncle George raced and uncle Pete used to go on the back to the race meetings to spanner on it.

Hopefully lots more rides to come all being well, going to change the fluids again and the r/h exhaust worked loose got a thing to stop that now all in all a good ride though!!

Gonna be posting alot more Norton stuff over the coming weeks on my Instagram www.instagram.com/norton.rider


Link to the video from today for some reason the media thing won't post on my phone

Hope you all enjoy
https://youtu.be/sILDF8E_4RM

[Hugh]

Greetings,

Those exhausts always come loose unless you 'really' tighten them up. Plenty of advice on the internet but these came to hand first, hope they may be of use to you;

https://www.nortonownersclub.org/branches/northwest

https://www.nortonownersclub.org/suppor ... d-spanners

https://andover-norton.co.uk/en/shop-details/16201

http://www.oldbritts.com/exh_nut.html

My exhaust spanner, genuine Norton from 1975 plus hydraulic jack handle. Never came loose

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Love those lanes around Alderley Edge, Snelson, Wilmslow, Macclesfield, etc.

TTFN

Hugh.

[adventure steele]

Thanks Hugh Yeah some ace lanes for a nice chilled out test ride with a bit of everything actually got a popper exhaust spanner an a set of tab lockers for them, tomorrow's job along with a general check over then I'm back out again.

[adventure steele]

Had a spin out today again on the Commando quality of the clip is massively better now finally sussed out what I was doing wrong upload wise.

Re adjusted the Rear Iso needed a bit more clearance in it for the Iso to start working at the right rev range superb difference now and still handles!
One of the NGK plugs decided to start breaking down an ended up miss firing while I was riding luckily managed to get going an limp home. Swapped a different plug in had one of the old champions I'd took out and it ran perfect an back to her usual self.
Hence why she sounds a bit off song on the video.

Removed the exhaust locking tab washers and got a nice good swing on the nuts seems alot better with the tab washers removed.


Massive improvement from last time and will soon be ready for some much longer rides an adventures!

https://youtu.be/1F4sNQmDcDM