THE TUESDAY EXPENSIVE TRITON

A suitably expensive looking Triton 'cos today is the day Google finally gave me the "no more photos 'till you pay" word, so thats it, we are now officially a professional blog. Thanks to everyone who bought Ts in support....still got some left though...

AUTO 66 BIKE WEEK

Sorry forgot to put this on last week, Scarborough bike week started on Saturday with hill climbs at Dalby North tomorrow (19th) and Olivers Mount Wednesday and Thursday with the Barry Sheene race meeting at the weekend including the parade of 1000 bikes round Scarborough seafront on Saturday evening.  All the usuals will be at the hillclimbs including Fast Sam who was at Epynt last weekend.



Full details on Auto 66 club website

FARMYARD PARTY 2012

It rained, a lot, all day. Why are the bar staff always the happiest (and prettiest) people at a bike rally ?

BIKES WITHOUT MUDGUARDS ARE SO COOL

Come back tomorrow, i'm too tired to talk about it.

WET

Ash and Barrys Retro car/bike meet at Wombleton this weekend postponed due to waterlogged field. New date will be announced soon. Farmyard Party most definitely on though, see you there..

LIONS DRAG STRIP 1961

The first ever live drag racing on US TV in 1961. 50 years on to my knowledge we still havent had live drag racing on UK TV and probably never will.
Great hat !

18" ASTRALITES

3" front and 5.5" rear x 18". were last fitted to GSXR1100 Slabside. Later rolled edge type. Front has a dent. Rear has a couple of dents, some rivets missing and others that have been replaced with nuts and bolts. Both need repaint or powder coating.
 Need some work but nothing major and you wont find any more certainly not at this price.
£450 + Post anywhere. tri650@live.co.uk

RO BOT

Spurred on (OK i just copied) by Toms beautiful Roboto's i had a go at one of my own. This is Bonnie De'Ville, mainly a piston, inlet valves and broken rocker all from my chop plus a kickstart quadrant, chain adjuster, clutch arm and various other Triumph bits. Sometimes if you have a crap unreliable bike its not all bad.
 Bonnie likes swarf with lots of salt and suffers badly from incontinence, but he always looks good. He is just a basic little 'bot but i do have another piston....

SHINY TUESDAY TRITONS

The Solvol sisters.

MONDAY MONDAY

It was all i hoped it would be, but moist. I could try to fix the roof but every other day of the week is fine, yeah.

Can't do any more to the Linkert Triumph 'till i get a new gearbox oil seal. It was ready to go a week ago, now it has loose exhaust and inlet stubs, leaking gearbox and primary cases, shagged drive chain and a hole in the tank. The tank is mended but i sat this one on anyway because sitting different tanks on bikes is easy. I could tidy up the workshop and strip one of the three bikes sat waiting but instead i made a Tom inspired robot, no photos yet as i stripped him down for a final build. You can see the dry build on my Instagram at eattherichuk, yes sad.

The Mamas and Papas didnt have a line about Instagram.

Sometimes it just turns out that way.

Is this just the gayest post i have ever done ?

REG

 V5c's, all off scrapped frames no longer in use.
Harley SLK***W 1980. 1000cc. £1,000. Triumph XBM**K Reg 1980 declared manufactured '72. 650cc. £225. Triumph WNL***A, 1963, original number. 750cc. £250. Triumph ***YMY 1960. Original number, 650cc. £550.

 Ensign 19" road legal knobblies, as new. 350 x 19 and 400 x 19. £40 each.

Original banana seats, £50 rear, £40 front. Both spot on.

All + post. tri650@live.co.uk

TRIUMPH WINS TT

The Isle of Man is possibly not the best place in the world right now. No racing to watch on TV so heres a great (and not at all biased) film from 1969, or is it ?

ELLIS' LITTLE FROCK

Our Ellis is doing Costume Design and Manufacture at University and last night was the year end show. She made the costume in top pic, all hand sewn, and is in bottom photo in dark blue dress. Can you call something that takes nearly a year to make just a "dress".

TRIUMPH (low) SPEED TRIPLE

Just showing off.

TRIUMPH AN TING

'54 uncut rigid frame with original transferable reg, sprung hub, big bearing T'bird 650 with 9 stud Bonneville splayed head, Borrani 19" up front, strangely laced offset rear, engine turns nice with plenty of compo, no spark as yet but will clean points tomorrow. I don't want to sell it, i don't want to sell anything, but its better than a job so a gnats* cock over £3k and you got yourself a project.

*Gnats are quite big boys up here.

TING AN TING

Triumph hardtail, width between mounts top 2.5" bottom 7", top to bottom centres 19.4", bottom front mounts to axle centre 24.5" £100. Shovel/Pan rear hinged guard, prob repro, modded at front for left side chain £50. Chrome flat chopper rear guard, end to end accross 28", round 36", 6" wide £15. BSA 19" A10 front wheel complete good chrome £100. 19" rear complete, Dunlop rim but some light rust £100. 1" Western/Buckhorn bars 34" tip to tip, 9" rise to first bend, £20.
All plus post. tri650@live.co.uk

LIFE THROUGH A LENS

Some great photos of a life with bikes from Graham at Beverley. The supercharged A10 is a long term project of his brother David who does have a pretty valid excuse for not having finished it, see  here

THE RED WHITE AND BLUE TUESDAY TRITONS

GAWD BLESS YER MA'AM

Ma'am like spam.

SPRUNGHUB AND HARDTAIL

I bought this Thunderbird unseen from a bloke in Cornwall with no mobile phone and no computer, it sounded OK, from the photo (top) either it was very small or he had huge hands. He said he was too old to ride it any more, i didnt tell him he was 3 years younger than me.
 I did a mile on it then pulled it apart a bit for a cosmetic makeover. Looks like France at the end of the month so long as we don't travel by night..