You couldn’t start an original Commando like that when it was cold (I bought one new in ‘74). It required a leap into the air before you could turn the engine over. The day I bought it my friend got one too: we ended up both sitting on his garden wall nursing our aching right knees.
You can learn how to keep syncronised dual carbs. Need bracket to keep 2 into 1 cable junction secured, (duct tape can also work), cables lubed. slides even. mixture correct. look at slides functioning. listen with hose to ear. feel exhaust puffs. look at plugs for cocoa color deposits. Adjust valves, check timing
@@chhindz Exactly correct and if you can't find ethanol free petrol, don't let the ethanol sit in the carbs for too long. Corn syrup doesn't work well in Amal carbs.
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Shame it has a single carb. The dual carbs give the Norton Commando the acceleration, the torque and the grunt that can't be replaced with a single carb.
@@ronaldthomas9396 There are ways to increase torque. Changing the chain drive sprockets is one way, increasing the fuel input by optimizing or by turbocharging which increases the air/fuel density is another. Even reducing weight would help. However reducing the air/fuel intake by installing a single Mikuni on a Commando only reduces torque, low, medium or high end. Reducing a dual carb Commando to a single because somebody can't sync the carbs won't necessarily make the bike a better ride. Being a better mechanic would help the reliability, not reducing one's ability to adjust your carbs. I get good mileage on my Nortons. The last full day ride on my '72 dual carb Combat averaged just under 60 miles per imperial gallon. I'm not looking to improve that by reducing performance.
@@ronaldthomas9396Any reasonable low rpm torque has nothing to do with a single Mikuni. It might have some low rpm torque in spite of the single Mikuni.
