Nice Bike. I have a 64 Atlas Café Racer that I've owned since the 1970s and a 63 650ss completely concours standard.. Noàw the clutch. Yes I use Automatic Transmission fluid. Either age or the ATF rots the Rubber bushes, replace every 5 years. Above all realise that what looks like the chaincase drain plug is the Level plug. You put the bike on the centre stand top up the ATF then open the plug and let it drain to level it shoulod carry VERY little fluid. With that and centrifugal force that clutch runs virtualy dry. It should not slip, was used on many drag bikes back then. The cam on your 650 is the "SS" cam. That was the production racing cam of the period and won multiple Thruxton 500 mile races. In it's day the 650SS was road tested at 119MPH yes that was 10MPH faster than the Bonneville of the same year. If the engine is right and you screw the nuts off it it will do 120MPH. If you really worry about stress fracture, fit late Commando rods, but they are heavier, you will need to rebalance the crank. Norvil will fix all that. The sidestand is a horrible bodged add on. On my Café racer I tool a P11 sidestand and had it braised on nicely so it did not crush the frame tube. ENJOY
Did you have any problems with the motor running badly after you installed the De-Cat and the BC sleeper pipes together? My mechanic informed me that it is highly recommended to replace the factory silencers, but if you do that AND the de-cat it will run horribly and be too loud, better to do one and not the other. Any insight would be helpful and appreciated. Cheers
I purchased 2 K1300S’s which I still own and ride. A 2010 in granite gray with red/black accents (like the video) and a 2013 fancy anniversary edition model. Absolutely love these bikes as they really are the epitome of sport touring with the hard luggage. These bikes give up nothing in performance and bullet proof reliability!
Great looking bike....did you have the map read after the exhaust sys changes. I de-catterd my T100 and fitted the Norman Hyde Toga pipes.....I would like to see how its burning now.....but not got around to it. My T100 is 70+mpg.....mainly A road 60mph max....I use E5 petrol....find it gives better MPG. Carried out several other mods to get it more retro looking....love the bike to bits.....done 6000mls now since late 2020.
Sop does mine run great....so much better after de-catting......but first time I took the spark plugs out there color scared me after those mods.....in the old days they would have indicated a very weak mixture.....not good.@@RedfordBaron
What year? I have a 2018 bobber black, wish I could find extras at a good price. I live in Japan so everything is way over priced. Love the mirrors and headlight cover.
Becareful , The old billiam are now looking for holes where DB killers were and nicking people for it Latest tactic to get some money !!! Shame they ignore the idiots in lambo's etc popping and banging everywhere 😡
Yes, the 650 SS has a hot cam. It was called the sports special grind and it was used Manxman twin and a few other limited-production sports bikes. It was carried over to the Atlas when the Atlas was upgraded to twin mono-bloc carburetors and the same cam was used on the Commando models from intro up to the electric start 850 MkIII (also, the Commando Combat engine used a different cam grind). The SS cam grind was considered one of the best back in the day and it provided good performance for many Norton twins.
I have a set of these and when I installed them on my bike the handlebars now flex somewhat, probably due to the added height increasing leverage. Is that normal/ok? They didn't come with instructions and I cannot get anyone from the company to return my email asking this question. Thank you!
If you are only doing 1500 miles a year, am sure you can afford some seriously sticky tyres for it, still get 2 years out of a set probably! 🙂 Is fun having an urban explore on a bike, agree about London... I won't go there even on foot unless I have to anymore.
Looks great RB... I like the rear rack personally. You'll have to sell it now you've ridden it a 1000 miles! 😀 It annoys me that we can't just reset service lights ourselves.
Hi mate, interesting about the cush rubber thing. I’ve got one of these, getting a bit of clutch slip, also using ATF. I’ll look at it in the winter. I used Commando rods when I did the engine so not too worried about them, I’m more scared of the wheels falling off or something 🤣. Also, looked into a Quaife 5 speed, and seem to remember more like £3000. For 1300 or 1500 I might go for it, but don’t need more speed really.
Hi , I've just noticed your recent reply and I've also recently bought a 650ss I removed the primary chain case to check alls well , then found the sealing band was too big to go back on by 1½ inch (expanded ?) , so I bought a new one from a Norton specialist then found that was too thick , eventually , carefully linished the band thinner , now to see if it's oil tight 😏 ,,,, have you had any annoying events like this ?
Lovely bike. TTS Performance can do something with the ECU take the rev limiter off as apparently Triumph sets the rev limit low in it's 1200 engines. They can also make the engine breath better and improve the fueling in lower revs. Here's the video they did of the Thornton Hundred Bobber. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-P33torozv-E.html Your footage doing your walk around was a tiny bit weird in terms of colours and lighting, like it massively over exposed? Quite stylised.
