The 1976 Norton Commandomotorcyclewas a last - ditch effort to relieve a once - superb British motorcycle recipe .
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Norton ’s Commando series bowed in 1968 to groovy fanfare , but by the mid-1970s it had grown long in the tooth .
to begin with offered with a 750 - milliliter twin , it was decide that a power boost was in order . The engine itself was going on 30 years older , but it was a square design , and Norton increase supplanting to 850 cc in what would wrench out to be its final embodiment .
Along with the larger engine come up a frontdisc brake , joined after by a rearward disc . In addition , U.S.-spec left - side shift was adopted , the threefold seat was now hinged for convenience , and thespeedometerand tachometer found themselves join by a warning - light console .
Despite these endeavour , Norton plant itself deeper and deeper in the fiscal muck . merge with AJS and Matchless back in the 1960s , Norton was close up in with BSA and Triumph in the seventies . BSA drop out after 1973 , leave Triumph and Norton to soldier on alone . They did n’t march very far .
Though Triumph struggled along on its own for a few years later on , Norton terminate production in 1977 . However , both trade name made cameo appearances during the 1980s , Norton fielding a Wankel - powered model that was produced in minor numbers .
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The 1976 Norton Commando came equipped withdisc brakesand an electric entrant , which made it more attractive to American consumers .
