Non-Laverda... any advice for buying a Commando?

you are always so derrogatory Paul (so am I) We should both buy new Honda's, I cant actually put my finger on why I (we) keep "putting up" with it, but we do, I mean, my long trip to Denmark in August would have been so much more comfortable, quicker, quieter, bigger stowage, and cheaper on my Pan European! but I would have been bored!
CLEM
 
Jo said:
I've never seen a Laverda with same same fr/rr tyre dimensions Hamish. I'd have bet (and obviously lost) any money for it...
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Hi Jo, all Sulzbacher tuned 1000/1200 had 4.25V18 front and rear in the papers. I once had a bike with these tire dimensions - it was nearly impossible to get around a corner. Ciao, Gert
 
CLEMTOG said:
you are always so derrogatory Paul (so am I) We should both buy new Honda's, I cant actually put my finger on why I (we) keep "putting up" with it, but we do, I mean, my long trip to Denmark in August would have been so much more comfortable, quicker, quieter, bigger stowage, and cheaper on my Pan European! but I would have been bored!
CLEM
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I love my Laverda Clem, but SFCs and a few race bikes apart, it's just another bygone Italian marque. I restore mine to be functional, I don't give a damn about old screws. There'll always be another girl.
Now the shouldered British Standard Gas screws on my 1912 Humber are something else.

Paul
 
Paul Marx said:
... I restore mine to be functional, I don't give a damn about old screws.
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Paul, there is nothing dis-functional about old screws... We are all set in our ways, and my view is that modern, generic, stainless bolts on a classic bike look out of place.

While I'm at it, I also think modern bikes with tiny fenders look ridiculous, and are not functional!
 
beauchemin said:
Paul, there is nothing dis-functional about old screws... We are all set in our ways, and my view is that modern, generic, stainless bolts on a classic bike look out of place.

While I'm at it, I also think modern bikes with tiny fenders look ridiculous, and are not functional!
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It's not that the screws aren't functional, it's that old oxidised zinc plated screws aren't pretty.
You can of course plate them again, I prefer using stainless. Plus the fact that I don't have to worry about oxidisation with time, water, mud and so on.
If I don't have to take a bike to bits, I don't worry about screws, but if I'm taking old grubby screws out, I replace them with new, clean, low maintenance stainless.
I don't consider my bikes classics, just old by the way.
But to each his own.

Paul
 
CLEMTOG said:
you are always so derrogatory Paul (so am I) We should both buy new Honda's, I cant actually put my finger on why I (we) keep "putting up" with it, but we do, I mean, my long trip to Denmark in August would have been so much more comfortable, quicker, quieter, bigger stowage, and cheaper on my Pan European! but I would have been bored!
CLEM
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You’ve hit the nail on the head- it’s all about the journey . I’ve just done South of France on my Guzzi, heavy throttle makes my arm ache, 400 mile days ,navigating with outdated maps, putting my little tent up and cooking army rations on the engine- my idea of heaven!
 
sfcpiet said:
Ooh, yeah! My favourite brit twin too.

Engine looks like it's hewn from rock, much like a Laverda. Not as pretty as a mid-60's Bonneville, but it certainly has "something". Probably too heavy, too slow, etc, etc, but, who cares?

piet
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I’ve had a few Interceptors, oodles of torque, good turn of speed and cruiser type handling combined with the worst gearbox in the world.
 
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