Doug Abadie on his highly modified Commando S shown here gassing it through a sweeper at Sears Point toting a cameraman.  He rode this motorcycle vigorously but with a smooth accomplishment which sometimes gave people riding behind him on back roads the mistaken notion that they should pass him and step up the pace.  This ended in disaster for the upstart often enough that this guy got somewhat of a rep and  became referred to by  some as "the crafty phantom".  This even happened once with a rider who was the then-current AFM Number One plate holder!

If you wonder why the cameraman looks suspiciously like Dick Mann, it may be because he's wearing a 'recycled' set of BSA factory leathers.  It's actually Kip Culver, who's experience as a sidecar monkey and coolness in the sort of situation pictured above made him well qualified for the task at hand.  He probably didn't think it was a daunting idea.

The video equipment used here has a camera, attached by the cable seen atop the shooter's shoulders, which is going around his neck to the rather large cassette recorder and battery pack he's holding between the two of them with his elbows and knees.... while making his shot!  And it's a good tape.

Probably this photo belongs in the Rogues Gallery, both these guys are abundantly qualified. 

This motorcycle is one we don't have any "mug shots" of, but did a lot of work on.  It started life as a '69 S model and picked up the Dunstall fuel tank, seat, tacky exhaust plumbing and front brake at different points along the way. 

The motor was hot enough to be marginally streetable for the every-day slogging it was subjected to; at one point, it began shredding gearboxes and that financially ruinous trait was cured by fitting the older single row primary drive and matching mainshaft.   Of course, it's not as good a clutch, but it does have a cush drive that works.  No more blown trannies.

Amazingly (to this rider, anyway) the front brake, with its tiny rotors, worked pretty well.  They were a bugger to work on; the calipers are integrally cast into the fork legs, with two live pistons on each caliper.  You couldn't split the caliper to work on it, all access was through the bore from the outside (you can infer the small piston size from the ring nut visible on the caliper).

Doug liked the skinny 3.60x19 Dunlop K-81 on the front, this writer  personally had no fondness for that tire at all.  It did make for a quick handler.

After riding this bike for a number of years, Doug got his hands on a Rickman-Kawasaki with a pumped up 1100cc Yoshimura Z-1 engine.  He'd gotten tired of the unending minor maintenance that accompanied being married to the Norton and probably bored with its performance as well.   In the pre-Ninja '70's, that pumped up Kwakker was hands down as fast as anything on the road, anywhere.  He also didn't have to work on it.   The Norton  became a dust-collector and was sold.