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| Posted: Sat Feb 4th, 2012 08:04 pm | 1st Post |
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A friend called last night and said he had a new bike on the stand. It belongs to his father and it's been in storage for decades. He wanted to go through it and get it working right to possibly sell. He asked me to help him. We started in on it this morning. Cleaned and blew out the amal, hoses, oil, switches and wiring. Tested the Boyer and the zener (He'd hooked the battery backwards but somehow the zener was still good.). Found a lot of little problems. Worked through them one at a time. Poured in some gas. Tickle the Amal and with minimal kicks it was running! After twenty odd years of collecting dust we adjusted the idle and it was smooth and sweet. We both rode it a few miles and found the clutch to be slipping a little in 3rd and 4th but that's an easy fix. Overall it's a sweet running little bike and handles like a dream. He was actually fixing it up to sell, but after spending the day with it he decided his dad doesn't need the money. It ain't going nowhere! It was a good day.
____________________ 84 Standard. Fairly bone stock The Kitchen Bike. Still on the drawing board. Motorcycle building and machinery forum. http://www.network54.com/Forum/161422/ |
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| Posted: Sat Feb 4th, 2012 08:26 pm | 2nd Post |
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I'm thinking along about 1967-68, maybe a 650 Tiger? Been a long while, but it looks ready to me .... friend should just buy it from Pops and make it part of his estate some day. .... Nice! 
____________________ '97 GL-1500 SE / Lehman GTL Trike ...( Candy Spectra Red w/ Candy Garnet Red insert ) '85 GL-1200 Aspencade ...( Pearl Vintage Red w/ Rose insert ) '74 Triumph T-150V Trident ...( it's a Triple ) "Make Courtesy Your Code of the Road" . |
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| Posted: Sat Feb 4th, 2012 08:59 pm | 3rd Post |
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IT sure looks good to have been sitting so long . ITs nice to hear ya'll have it purring again.
____________________ Mike You meet the nicest people on a Honda ! 83 Interstate '93 1500 Aspencade , fastest color at night ! some assembley required . Thankyou Brian for the second chance. 94SE 187000 miles |
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| Posted: Sat Feb 4th, 2012 09:11 pm | 4th Post |
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Tiger Cub, 200cc?
____________________ Tim "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe." Carl Sagan |
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| Posted: Sat Feb 4th, 2012 09:52 pm | 5th Post |
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Look at those Triumph "pea-shooter" exhausts... Makes me wanna slap my momma... Danged fine, awesome!
____________________ http://www.culleynet.com "A man with nothing to lose is a powerful commodity." Me, 2001 "I'm not a biker, I'm a motorcyclist." Me, 2010 1996 GL1500A 71K-ish (Oreo Darkside and lovin' it! Rear ~ Dunlop Winter Sport 175.60.R16 ROF Front ~ Bridgestone Battlax 130/60-18 reverse mounted) 1998 Valkyrie 56K-ish ("Darkside" Goodyear Triple Tread Assurance 205.60.R16) |
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| Posted: Sat Feb 4th, 2012 10:16 pm | 6th Post |
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It's a '68 Tiger. It's sweet, and british bikes feel like no other bike feels when you ride them. This one's a keeper and I would love to own it although I feel that BSA motorcycles are far better. BSA just built a simpler and better engine in my opinion. Dammed shame they're gone.
____________________ 84 Standard. Fairly bone stock The Kitchen Bike. Still on the drawing board. Motorcycle building and machinery forum. http://www.network54.com/Forum/161422/ |
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| Posted: Sat Feb 4th, 2012 10:24 pm | 7th Post |
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That is a keeper Tom. Better to keep keepers with the family where they belong.
____________________ Alan Fitzpatrick. |
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| Posted: Sat Feb 4th, 2012 11:19 pm | 8th Post |
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TominDallas wrote: It's a '68 Tiger. It's sweet, and british bikes feel like no other bike feels when you ride them. This one's a keeper and I would love to own it although I feel that BSA motorcycles are far better. BSA just built a simpler and better engine in my opinion. Dammed shame they're gone. You are right about the "feel", never owned a BSA, rode a few though .... owned Triumph but my first bike was a '70 Norton 750 Commando Fastback .... love them all. Those old 500 / 650 / 750 Twins were very "tractible", purred like kittens, were a lot more fun than any 130 plus HP Crotch Rocket. It was like they knew where you were going before even you knew. Rode a cousin's Royal Enfield 750 Intercptor once, fast ... but damn if that thing didn't vibrate aweful bad. Looked for a picture of my old Norton, I know I have some .... but for now, suffice to say it was Black on the tank and tail piece with a silver metal flake insert portion that was in the gelcoat. Most of those were painted solid in later years, otherwise like this red one below. It also had black cylinder barrels and a pair of 10.5 slugs in it and I did not have the front reg plate on the fender. Twin leading front brake would howl the front tire right at the limit from 80 top 0 with good controlability.  I miss them days. Attachment: Norton-750-Commando Fastback RED.jpg (Downloaded 142 times)
____________________ '97 GL-1500 SE / Lehman GTL Trike ...( Candy Spectra Red w/ Candy Garnet Red insert ) '85 GL-1200 Aspencade ...( Pearl Vintage Red w/ Rose insert ) '74 Triumph T-150V Trident ...( it's a Triple ) "Make Courtesy Your Code of the Road" . |
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| Posted: Sun Feb 5th, 2012 11:18 am | 9th Post |
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TominDallas wrote: It's a '68 Tiger. It's sweet, and british bikes feel like no other bike feels when you ride them. This one's a keeper and I would love to own it although I feel that BSA motorcycles are far better. BSA just built a simpler and better engine in my opinion. Dammed shame they're gone. I read about a bike made in India which is based on the old BSA tooling. Some updates like disc brakes and electronics. Apparently the Indin army was using a lot of BSAs when production stopped. At least I think I read it. Could have been the voices in my head....
____________________ Tim "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe." Carl Sagan |
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| Posted: Sun Feb 5th, 2012 11:41 am | 10th Post |
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to cumry -maybe you are thinking of the "Royal Enfield" ? - they still byild those in India , all one cylinder 500ccm ,with around 28 horsepower , AND fuel injection ! A new one op here is around 8.000 euro , - but we have a lot of tax on bikes ,(a new 2012 Goldwing airbag is 77.000 euro ,- or around 100.900$ ) , so it maybe can be some 3.000 euro elsewhere ?
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| Posted: Sun Feb 5th, 2012 05:36 pm | 11th Post |
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Are there any of you Texas boys ridin' bikes that AREN'T 7ft tall ??? Your buddy seems to really dwarf that bike, but it's one pretty Triumph...   My one and only Trumpet, a 1969 TR650-C. My folks back yard the summer I left for the service.
____________________ For those who've never fought for it, the price of freedom shall never be known.... "Shooter" 1986 Interstate |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 6th, 2012 09:57 am | 12th Post |
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SMEDEN(=the blacksmith) wrote: to cumry You could be right!
____________________ Tim "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe." Carl Sagan |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 6th, 2012 04:43 pm | 13th Post |
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Shooter wrote: Are there any of you Texas boys ridin' bikes that AREN'T 7ft tall ??? Your buddy seems to really dwarf that bike, but it's one pretty Triumph... Oh Lord .... NICE. There was a time when the handrails were hard to find that hadn't been cut to add those sissy bars, hadn't seen one in years! I did the same thing on my first Trident after trading in my Norton, and wished I hadn't almost as soon as I did that long ago day .... but girls liked it. Pretty flimsy, but it let them know where the aft end was. Handy for carrying that extra helmet that might be needed on Friday / Saturday night. Attachment: Les first 1974 Trident T150V in 1975.jpg (Downloaded 41 times)
____________________ '97 GL-1500 SE / Lehman GTL Trike ...( Candy Spectra Red w/ Candy Garnet Red insert ) '85 GL-1200 Aspencade ...( Pearl Vintage Red w/ Rose insert ) '74 Triumph T-150V Trident ...( it's a Triple ) "Make Courtesy Your Code of the Road" . |
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