Comments on: Norton Commando Fastback

By: Chris Hunter

Chris Hunter — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:07:00 +0000

Thanks for clearing that up, Neil — and sorry to hear about the floods. Hope you and yours are ok.

By: neil

neil — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:55:00 +0000

have you ridden a healthy one? Leave your sycophants at home and take one for a spin!

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:53:00 +0000

just one?

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:52:00 +0000

All the same bike. Originally came with a cracked tinted screen. I preferred the clear, and ordered from the original British suppliers. Ditto the plates. I ordered and fitted the NRTON plates. Who wouldn’t! And bike is in the large metal flake silver paint job it was given back in about 1972 when the Dunstall mods were done. Just a point-and-shoot camera at that stage when I took those pics!

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:52:00 +0000

wrong…

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:48:00 +0000

It’s not. It was my front fence back in 2008!

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:47:00 +0000

I can not claim 100% certainty, but I am about 98% certain that the standard shocks (can’t remember the brand now) were re-valved for a firmer damping and painted red by the Dunstall agents. When I purchased the bike, the owner showed me photographs of it since year dot, and it always had the red shocks. The brand is definitely original equipment. Unfortunately I can’t check either the bike or my Norton books at present, as we’re in the middle of unprecedented floods here in Pyramid Hill, and the bikes are some distance away on high ground, and my books are all stacked up high somewhere in the house!