Out and About on your Laverda.No bull,Just photos
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Exmoor beast
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Orange Norton!
At least that's uncommon.Orange Norton!
Paul
henrywillms
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Is it a Norton Jota?
Steve G.
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I should actually know if Norton’s were delivered in orange, with my decades of Norton ownership. Yellow for sure! I chatted to a couple serious Norton dudes who confirm yes, early 1970’s 750’s were available in ‘Tangerine’, and ‘Signal Orange’.
78jotadave
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It's a free world, sort of, but I believe, like Vincents, a Norton should be black. I sold mine a long time ago. I probably could not live with a Kickstarter now anyway.
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The Sock
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djy100
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Exmoor beast
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Just popped down to local pub bike night, White Horse Washford- mostly new bikes but a brace of GT185 Suzukis, GT750 Suzuki& Laverda but for me this Model 7 1952 Norton was the peach. Superb build - to be honest looked like a new bike and sounded fantastic, really special bike. Burger & a pint for a tenner & nice to see local hoodlums riding irresponsibly on 125’s with noisey exhausts!
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gpzkat
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A couple of Nortons I've refreshed recently. I wasn't a fan of yellow, but it grew on me. '66 N15CS was a $150 pile of parts, I bitsa'ed it together on a budget. It was already custom-painted back in '94, but was missing the side cover. I found the painter nearby and had him match it up.
The Sock
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This made me want to go out and get one and I don't mean a Hi-Rider Commando.I was very impressed by the Fastback in metalflake red/silver at the time... or was it more the young ladies in the brochures? Wonder if those contemporary hotties have aged as well as the bikes.
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chrisk
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Try room 21 at the aged care home, she replaced the boots with compression socks, and her underwear larger than the hot pants in the picture but you’ll be right.
markQLD
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Keeping on the Commando topic..
Here's a blast from the past. No bull..
Reckon it would be 1977 back in my teenage years.
My mates were all horrified that I painted it Sky Blue.
Great bike when it was running and good to see I'm wearing all of the appropriate riding gear..
Here's a blast from the past. No bull..
Reckon it would be 1977 back in my teenage years.
My mates were all horrified that I painted it Sky Blue.
Great bike when it was running and good to see I'm wearing all of the appropriate riding gear..
chrisk
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A couple of weeks ago I parked the truck outside a factory in Melbourne where I had to load up the next morning
I was part way through a dingoes breakfast and I heard a familiar sound.
A couple of minutes later there was a bloke, riding around the block, like it was on a test ride. As the carb was the shiniest thing on it I presumed he was adjusting it, a Honda 70, without its leg shield. It was a very early one, grey paint.
It sounded like it was choking but after a few laps of the block, with a quick pit stop at a factory a few doors down every lap, it was sounding better and better.
The last time it went past it was running sweet and had actually picked up some speed, the older rider was grinning from ear to ear when I gave him the thumbs up
Steve G.
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A couple of weeks ago I parked the truck outside a factory in Melbourne where I had to load up the next morning
I was part way through a dingoes breakfast and I heard a familiar sound.
A couple of minutes later there was a bloke, riding around the block, like it was on a test ride. As the carb was the shiniest thing on it I presumed he was adjusting it, a Honda 70, without its leg shield. It was a very early one, grey paint.
It sounded like it was choking but after a few laps of the block, with a quick pit stop at a factory a few doors down every lap, it was sounding better and better.
The last time it went past it was running sweet and had actually picked up some speed, the older rider was grinning from ear to ear when I gave him the thumbs up
