It took a while before I managed but behold, a first video of the Norton back in 1975. My dad’s other hobby was making films which resulted in miles and miles of Super 8 films (before the modern times of video filming).
Here, the Norton Commando in semi-race version in our back yard (the kid playing around was me 34 years ago) :

I still think it is quite amazing, after all the “outfit changes” the Norton had and times passed, that the very same Norton, though back in its original outfit and classic colors, is now back and parked in my parents-in-law garage.
(thanks to Eric for his free flv-player which makes publishing videos really easy)

Spring weather at the end of November, who would have thought that. The sky was half covered with clouds, some sunshine every now and then and a soft, almost warm 17° Celcius. The Norton still runs good, but today the starter didn’t want to do what I wanted it to do; as I took it out for a ride and the engine warmed up, I opened the starter but, perhaps helped by the vibrations, it doesn’t stay open; slowly it closes by itself. No big deal, when I got back home I quickly found the problem; the big screw right on top of the starter was too loose due to which the starter opened and closed way too easy.

Tighten the screw

An other oilleak I noticed; everytime when I take the Norton out for a ride, I find some oil laying on the carter, behind the cilinders. This appears to drip down from the gastubes. The right fueltap and gastube leading to the right carburator is “greasy”, oil slides down and drips from the lowest point from the gastube (under the carburators), though I can’t exactly see where it is coming from.

No evident oil leaks

My best guess would be that it comes somewhere from the side rocker covers which may let pass some “oil fog” which accumulates on the right fueltab and gastube. Oh well, I’ll replace these gaskets this winter also and we will see next spring. Besides that, the Norton runs fairly good.