So I'm in Denver for work (beats being in the office) and my colleagues and I walk downtown to look for a restaurant (Laramie St or Ave or something. Supposedly a happening little street but I'm not sure as I had a few beers before dinner). We walk by this shop and in the window is a seemingly perfectly good Norton 850 Commando draped in shirts and stuff.
I couldn't believe it. The shop was closed otherwise I would have raised some hell. This bike needs to be ridden!
Do any of you Denver RATS know the story behind this bike?
One of my surgeons recently bought a restored norton commando 850 and paid a butt load of money for it..it is a great looking bike and the models they used in the seventies were so...fine...but they are too small.
Its probably somebodys baby...it appears to have saddle bags on it so it must ridden...Its may be that some guy that doesnt have a garage and loaned it to the shop for the winter rather than leaving it under a tarp covered in snow...sure it may be humiliating for the bike...but I bet its warm and dry behind that display window though...
I'm relieved. when you said waste of a good Norton, I was expecting some hideous chopper.
Nothing wrong with the Norton you poted. This on the other hand.....
I'm relieved. when you said waste of a good Norton, I was expecting some hideous chopper.
Nothing wrong with the Norton you poted. This on the other hand.....
Maybe the Norton is in that window because it needed a night job.I'll bet that it's day job is as a bouncer at some Denver Hooligan bar or a wrench at an obscure British bike garage....or maybe the store owner is a smart guy who bought the Norton and is writing off the coast as a business expense.
Juni just doesn't seem like a guy who would commit a crime even it is for "freeing" a Commando. I hope he didn't get caught in the act by the owner and is now "sleeping with the fishes."
I have no idea what the survival rate of the old "stock" English bikes are, but I'd say it's about 50/50 here in the States that the motors at least are in bobber and choppers. At least that's sort of the Craigslist split on the old iron.
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