Commandospecialties Weblog

.http://commandospecialties.wordpress.comThey’re just some guys with a passion for old motorcycles (and new ones to be fair) specifically Nortons but any European marque will be considered. Here’s a few pics from their new location, walls need some pictures etc but the hard work is done!!!.

Commandospecialties Weblog

.http://commandospecialties.wordpress.comThey’re just some guys with a passion for old motorcycles (and new ones to be fair) specifically Nortons but any European marque will be considered. Here’s a few pics from their new location, walls need some pictures etc but the hard work is done!!!.

David Edwards’ P11

.Via : The Bike ExifWhat’s former editor David Edwards been up to since leaving Cycle World magazine last year? He tells us he’s been putting his free time and severance pay to good use, “Buying cool old mo’cycles!” One of them is this custom 1967 Norton P11 special, a machine designed as a desert racer. The P11 concept started life as a prototype reportedly built by Californian Norton

The Sunday Movie

.A video from my friend Kenny Cummings from www.nycnorton.com'68 Seeley Norton Commando at AMA Vintage Grand National Championships, Mid Ohio, July 26, 2009. I was gridded in the last row of the second wave and had a group of 350 GP bikes in front of me. In front of them was a group of Middleweight Superbikes that went off in a first wave. I was able to get a great start and made my way past all

Brand New 1975 Nortons

.by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider"We all know what a barn find usually looks like, some rusty hulk stuck in the back corner of some out building comes to light, the original pieces intact but usually in very poor condition. This "barn find" is a bit different. The owner of Motoshop Podevyn in Aalst, Belgium passed away and the contents of the shop are going up for auction. It turns out it's quite

The CP Project One

.via : the SouthsidersFor a couple years we have wanted to design a bike. It all started when we came back from the Legend of Motorcycles in June 2008, where we met a good part of the best motorcycle builders and enthusiasts.As english motorcycles fans, we decided to use a featherbed frame and a triumph 750 engine. Of course with a beginning like this, our only direction was to build a Triton.

Off road Norton

.images copyright Frank Sider.

DC-4

.The Douglas DC-4 is a four-engined propeller-driven airliner developed by the Douglas Aircraft Company. It served during World War II, in the Berlin Airlift and into the 1960s in a military role. From 1945, many civil airlines operated it worldwide.The designation DC-4 was first used by Douglas Aircraft Company when developing a large, four-engined type to complement its very successful DC-3,

SR-71 Blackbird Vs Norton Commando

.The Lockheed SR-71 is an advanced, long-range, Mach 3 strategic reconnaissance aircraft developed from the Lockheed A-12 and YF-12A aircraft by the Lockheed Skunk Works as a Black project. The SR-71 was unofficially named the Blackbird, and called the Habu by its crews, referring to an Okinawan species of pit viper.Clarence "Kelly" Johnson was responsible for many of the design's innovative

Norton Prepares for Bonneville Land Speed Record

.Via : asphaltandrubber.comIn contrast to Confederate Motorcycles’s forth year on the Bonneville Salt Flats, Norton Racing is also present at Bub Week with their rotary-powered NRV588, trying their luck for the first time out on the salt. With no FIM sanctioned class to race in, Norton isn’t going for a land speed record per se, but instead hopes that their efforts this year will provide the

Working in the garage

-Today Saturday its time to take care of my bike ...Now it works ...

Spitfire & Norton : 2 British legends

By Come ChantrelCopyright by : clavework graphycsMy father went through flight training in the RAF during the late 1940s and ended up in the cockpit of the Spitfire MK XIV. Back in those days, fighter aircrafts really meant something. A few years before the same airplane had defeated Hitler in the skies of England. The Spit was a legend and the MK XIV was its sharpest version.Meanwhile all my dad

Steve Dunn THE Artist

Steve Dunn was born in the late 1950s and grew up in the bustling University City of Cambridge. He was a pupil at Cambridgeshire High School for Boys, commonly known then as 'The County'. His favourite subject then was art and in his final year he won the school art prize for his work."Manx Norton"The Manx Norton was one of the most successful racing motorcycles of the late forties, fifties and