Welcome to the Norton Commando Owners Club

Hello Web Suggestion I think you should change The name of that web page To The Norton Commando  Owners Club as this is all we seem to be seeing photo on the front page in our days

Anna,

My deepest apologies.  I used this image as its content reflected many peoples' views that Nortons should be ridden and not stored.  I had expected that before long I would be taken to task for failing to show the NOC as a worldwide organisation and not just restricted to the UK.  That's why I thought I'd use a picture taken in the USA.

I do change the Home page image at intervals and I promise to show something older next time round.  When I was last in the States, I took several pictures of a funny old Norton with a blue coloured frame and a red seat ..........

Webmaster

Hi Chris!

I also saw that funny old Norton at the Empire rally, I even posted pics of it on this very website (a link to my Photobucket page actually). I really enjoyed the home page pic, partly due to the sign (if you look closely on the uppermost sign you will see  Manxman engine on the bicycle!), partly because I noticed the number plate was one from the USA. I suppose there are probably far more commando owners than any other model that are members of the club, I guess it would be appropriate to see Commandos more often on the webpage.  Just curious, what percentage of the total NOC membership is in the USA?

Skip Brolund

Previously wrote:

Anna,

My deepest apologies.  I used this image as its content reflected many peoples' views that Nortons should be ridden and not stored.  I had expected that before long I would be taken to task for failing to show the NOC as a worldwide organisation and not just restricted to the UK.  That's why I thought I'd use a picture taken in the USA.

 

I do change the Home page image at intervals and I promise to show something older next time round.  When I was last in the States, I took several pictures of a funny old Norton with a blue coloured frame and a red seat ..........

Webmaster

Hello Chris I was not on about my bike I do like the 1930s model 20 with fishtail silencers and a planaled tank with clocks in it , then there a nice Model 7, that I had long time ago , And if was not for that funny looking Norton in Blue with a red seat there would not of been any COMMANDOs At ALL now would there ? So it as its place in history as well as all the other machines built by Norton . And they are a joy to ride . 

Skip,

To give the picture the full credits, it was taken at the Wellsboro 'Endless Rain' National Rally in 2008. The bike in the background belongs to George Fisher, MNOA and the foreground bike belongs to Bob Norum, DVNR. To those of you outside the USA, that's not the Delaware Valley Naval Reserve, but Delaware Valley Norton Riders.  With the rain we had, they might as well have been a naval reserve.

As of now, the breakdown of NOC membership is as follows:-

United Kingdom - 3184
Overseas  - 808
 

Overseas Statistics:-

Europe - 406
USA and Canada - 205
Australia and New Zealand - 170
Other countries - 27

The Club is represented in 43 different countries. Our most northerly Members, two or three of them, live at 63°N near Trondheim in Norway and our most southerly Member a mere 46° South in Invercargill at the bottom of South Island, New Zealand.

Can anyone beat those latitudes?

Hello chris   How do you get your photos to 100 kB . I tryed every thing, I can think of, I must be missing something, or I have not seen it yet . your input would be welcome .  yours anna J

Anna,

I gave up on that, instead, open up a free account on photobucket. Once your pics are there, you can simply copy & paste directly on this site. Here is a shot from the Empire rally last summer:

Previously wrote:

Hello chris   How do you get your photos to 100 kB . I tryed every thing, I can think of, I must be missing something, or I have not seen it yet . your input would be welcome .  yours anna J

Anna, simply use one of the myriad of bits of software that enables manipulation of images.  You don't have to have the full Photoshop as even the simplest of image viewers usually has the means to make a picture smaller.  If you can't make the native one in Windows work for you, then there are free downloads at e.g. ZDNet, Tucows, Download.com and so on.

Skip has shown you the work around with the image above.  The finer background detail of Skip's picture did not go un-noticed by the way.

Chris,

kinda ironic don't you think? There is a thread about pressure relief valves on heavy twins with Matt Kimbers deluxe so an appropriate pic I thought, and purely by coincidence  my own model 77 just behind, and a Manxman just behind that!!!! 

Skip

Previously wrote:

Chris,

kinda ironic don't you think? There is a thread about pressure relief valves on heavy twins with Matt Kimbers deluxe so an appropriate pic I thought, and purely by coincidence  my own model 77 just behind, and a Manxman just behind that!!!! 

Skip   hello eugene  very nice line of motorcycles there .well sorted ?

This is just one of the Pics from the Empire rally, I took pages of pics for anyone who wants to see them. Here is the link to my Empire Rally photobucket album:

http://s306.photobucket.com/albums/nn272/skipsoldbikes/Empire%20Rally%202011/

ENJOY !!!!!!!!!!

Skip, which code do you use to get the photo pasted into the thread like that ? I can manage a link that works but in the absence of a preview facility (A wretched nuisance, that is) , I haven't managed to work out the next step.

Richard, the HTML for Skip's posting reads as follows:-

<p>Anna,</p>
<p>I gave up on that, instead, open up a free account on photobucket. Once your pics are there, you can simply copy &amp; paste directly on this site. Here is a shot from the Empire rally last summer:</p>
<p><img alt="null" src="http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn272/skipsoldbikes/Empire%20Rally%202011/DSC05320.jpg" /></p>

Does that help?

Thanks Chris, I can't see any codes im my three options that have exactly the same format but I'm going to have a go. I won't know if it works until it's  too late to change it...

<a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg164/commando16h/Testjpg.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

This is a screen shot of my photobucket page. If it doesn't work properly,  perhaps Skip can tell me what he does from here in order to insert the image into the reply.

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd279/myfordwayne/1987c1.jpg

Hi all

It would be nice if the rotary was rememeberd this year its 25 years since the first rotary racer and 20 years since the 1992 TT win on the rotary

Regards Wayne

Hi Richard, here is how I post from photobucket:

once on your home page, click on the image you want to use

then right click on your mouse with the cursor over the picture and a menu will appear, select "copy image"

go to the NOC site on the topic you wish to post your picture, right click on the text area.

You've done it!!!!!!!

Skip ! You've posted a photo of a Commando ! There'll be some incoming over that !

I can't believe it's so simple. I've been trying to make all sorts of links work.

Cheers Mate !

To Balance things then Brian Crighton in 87

HI all

The photobucket copy and paste works as above, thanks for nthe discription on how to do it

Hears Bob Rowley and Dave Evans (and Daves mate) with Nor/Spe/A/347 the first RC588 in its current form

Regards Wayne