Thinking of buying a MkIII 850 Commando

Previously wrote:

I'm new to Nortons but am thinking of buy a 1975 850 Commando MkIII from a dealer in California. The bike looks sorted and I have asked for an independent assessment. I wondered whether anyone else had experience of shipping bikes in from the US and what registering it here entails. All advice and caveats gratefully received! Many thanks.

I'm a relatively new Commando owner and prior to finding one in the UK, I looked in the US as well. I found that by the timeI had factored in the shipping costs, the import duty and Vat, it didn't make a lot of sense financially, especially with the recentlevel of exchange. I took the view in the end that I was better off putting some ofthe money towards buying a UK bike.

Ian Emerson