COMMANDO

Is a project ever actually finished? There is always something to fix or fettle with old bikes when you enjoy using them as their makers intended. All the more so for a bike that has been completely rebuilt and when teething troubles emerge as the miles accumulate. This post script to my Commando restoration describes fixes and fettling needed over and above scheduled maintenance.

Fuel for thought

My, how words can come back to haunt you. Part five of the restoration series included the fateful sentence: ‘My experience and that of others suggested that lining the petrol tank would be more trouble than it was worth.’ Sheer hubris, challenging the gods you might think, but it was true at the time and remains so for my other bikes – but the Commando showed just how wrong you can be.

Two years