Norton commando roadster tanks

Commando Roadster Steel Fuel Tank. Made with a neck sourced from the UK to ensure a good cap fit. Accepts all stock hardware, cap, fuel taps and mounts not inlcuded. We generally ship via USPS, and we combine shipping, please notify us if you have any questions or preferences. Norton Commando Roadster Fuel Tank. Be the first to review this product. Availability: In Stock. SKU CS Add to Cart. The R styling harks back to Nortons of the early Sixties, the mufflers being identical to the Atlas built during that decade.

His initial survey of the machine concluded that it must be a Roadster. The most difficult part was sourcing the correct seat. The most difficult parts to find, says Jim, were a usable centerstand, the correct silver metalflake tail light housing with Lucas reflectors, and the plastic trim caps for the front fork pinch bolts: The last items are still AWOL.

Later Commandos have three rubber shock absorbing pads in the hub. Jim admits to a small number of deviations from stock: the aforementioned trim caps; flexible plastic rocker oil feed replacing the crack-prone stock steel lines; vernier-adjustable Isolastic mounts; improved rear muffler mounting; extra gusseting on the frame seat loop; and a 3.

The restoration took just three months — though Jim spent more than 10 years accumulating the right parts! Dave Guthrie nearly lost his SS before he even bought it.

Dave was in the middle of haggling with the owner when he heard a car door slam and footsteps approaching. Restoring the SS was a challenge. The bike had been stored in a chicken coop. On the way home with the bike, and still unsure of what he had, he stopped at a car wash and hosed the bike down, becoming aware for the first time that the exhaust pipes dragging on the ground should have been at knee level.

Poore decides to revive the cc overhead-cam Norton P10 engine, developed and abandoned some years before. Stefan Bauer, whom Poore lures from Rolls-Royce, proposes using the P10 engine in a new frame of his own design. Vibration is verboten, so to this end Bauer decides to isolate the power unit with rubber mountings. To avoid transmission snatch and chain windup, he fixes the swing arm to the engine unit, separating the entire powertrain from the frame — and hence the rider.

He calls his system Isolastic. But the P10 engine is shelved, and for good reason: It is complex the cams were driven by one long timing chain running through tunnels on the outside of the engine , expensive to make and — critically — less powerful than the Atlas.

OK, says Poore, build it — adding that it has to be ready for the Earls Court show in London, just three months away. But Bauer designed his frame around the unit construction P10 engine, where the swingarm could be attached directly to the power unit. Hooper, an experienced development engineer, and his assistant Bob Trigg set to.

They make the show — just. The buffers bolt to the frame, allowing the powertrain to vibrate without transmitting its shuddering to the rider. A notorious cheapskate, he apparently nixed screw adjusters in favor of cheaper shims, which required awkward and time-consuming fettling by the owner. At the time, cynics sneered that only a British manufacturer would take a bike with an obsolete engine the Atlas , and a great frame the legendary Featherbed , then ditch the frame and keep the engine!

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