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Sorry I meant the Speed Four. Its a 600 if i recall
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That explains it! You had me worried there... :-)
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Well I have a Triumph Tiger (2000 model) and it is faultless and by far the most enjoyable bike I own to ride (I have three).
I have it serviced at Jack Lilleys in Shepperton and they are top notch and good value for what you get.
So I'm happy...
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>>>>>'ere Growler - have you seen this?
Not in the metal I 'aven't but it looks like a serious Valkyrie basher.
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I've got a Triumph 5TA bathtub (distributor model) in my gararge in bits. I borrowed it from a friend when my Norton Commando got hit by a car who turned across my path whilst coming towards me. It was nicknamed "The Toricanyon" (I don't know if thats spelt right) for obvious reasons.
It's in bits now because I and a mutual friend of the owner decided that it needed surgery to stop the leaks, so took it to bits without his permission, with the intention of improving it. Sixteen years on, it's still in my garage, with newly painted panels and rebuilt wheels etc.
Does anybody fancy a Winter project to pass those long cold nights?
Reggie
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The proprietors at 'The House of Wheels' breakers in East London used to bait my mate with. "'Ere, you training to be the Captain of the Torrey Canyon, mate?"; his recently acquired 650 Triumph leaked so much oil I remember waiting behind him at the traffic lights and couldn't see him due to oil smoke. It turned out that not only the head was warped, but the barrels also...
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well reggie long cold winter months is my game
i am restoring a 350 twenty one model and would be really interested in your bike in bits
My mail is thinksafetyfirst@eircom.net
regards fran
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Replying to a five year old post - a record? although I think he;s still around.
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I think the reply should be something like:
Welcome to another new member. I see this is your first post, and you've made good use of the forum search facility (unlike many of us ;>)).
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Chances are if he still had this after sixteen years he still does after 21 years ;-)
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seeing as this is an "old"thread i'm going to use this chance to ask a question i've noticed before when old posts have been ressurected, ( if this is wrong time or place, Mods please delete!):
question:
how is it that when an old post such as this one is ressurected, that certain post names that are current are shown? (e,g i'm going to use Mr Altea Ego here to illustrate the point) when he started this thread back in '03, he was something like Renault Family, Altea Ego didn't exist, yet now, he started the thread!
Billy
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OK , you've caught him out Altea Ego is obviously going to be the new Dr Who, he's been test driving the Tardis
Edited by commerdriver on 27/11/2008 at 16:22
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It's simply how the database behind the site will work. One table will have your user details and has a unique "key" (the member ID). This is then used everywhere else as the unique reference to you. When the forum renders a web page, it does some table joins to find the username.
So back in 2003 it looked about AE's name and would have been Renault Family. The webpage when rendered today in realtime finds a username of Altea Ego when his name is looked up. Pretty simple really.
Remember the forum like any modern website is rendering pages based on dynamic content in databases etc. Change the data and the webpage will then be different when viewed again.
Now unless Reggie comes back lets leave this old thread.
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Hmm - I didn't think Triumph made anything smaller than a 600.
JBJ: I'm not that au fait with motorcycle terminology. Are you talking cc's? Was a Tiger Cub smaller than a 600? Thought it was 200cc.A mate of mine had one in the 60s and it blew my Lambretta LD150 off the road, no problem. Mind you we mods didn't need all the greaser gear and could arrive at a party in suede brogues, parallels, shirt with tie (and paper collar), fancy hanky in top pocket of jacket and look great, without oil all over our legs. I like the Torrey Canyon crack, though, having owned a BSA 500cc twin with manual advance/retard (B40? - age dulls the memory).
happy days
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"Are you talking cc's?"
I am, but you're quite right about the Cub. I was really referring to current production, not Triumph as was. I think the oil over the legs was part of the ritual in those days, hence the schism between Mods and Rockers! I do know a guy who rides a very nicely preserved BSA 650 twin, complete with clip-ons, and the amusing thing is that it gets much more attention in the staff car park than any of the modern machinery, which includes a Yamaha Thunderace and a Honda Blackbird. I'd like to see the effect that the new Triumph Trident would have, though. 2.3 litres and street legal - flippin 'eck!
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8 ball:
The Triumph Terrier (150 cc) made in the early 1950's was the smallest Triumph with sprung hub. It only lasted if memory serves from about 53-55. The Cub was a bigger-engined version of similar. All Cubs had a plain bearing on the timing side along with a plain bearing big-end that would start knocking and rumbling after about 5,000 miles and then continue knocking without any apparent ill effects for about another 40,000. We used to let 'em get to an oil consumption of about 150 m.p.p then give 'em a rebore.
If you had a Beeza 500 twin with a/r then it would have been an A7 with separate engine and gearbox and proably cast-iron block and head. Not a bad bike but a bit wheezy compared with the A10 GOlden Flash 650 which was basically the same bike with a bigger engine.
The B40 was a 350 cc single cylinder abomination with a unit engine and gearbox and the only customers for it were the AA patrolmen and Gas Board fitters. This was one of those last pieces of junk made when the British m/cycle industry was looking for places on its foot it hadn't already shot itself in.
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My last bike was a 'Bits Stuck Anywhere' (BSA) Gold Flash. Very solid and reliable.
In 1940, when I was 4 yrs. old my dad was managing a farm produce delivery fleet in Preston. One day he gave me a ride in his cab and I witnessed one of the drivers ask my dad to try his new motorcycle. I remember that my dad took off very rapidly, nearly doing 'wheelies'. He looked very impressed. 25 years later, when I had sold my bike and got had my first car he told me of the time he had once been asked to try out a Triumph Tiger. He said that the Tiger had tried him out instead. It must have made a big impression on my young mind to have remembered it.
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My dad had a Golden Flash and I was riding it at 17 years old. A lovely bike and so docile to ride with that lovely twin engine.
My brother had the Norton Dominater 88 which had just come out and I recall him painting the tank a different colour.
Old fella up the road used to change his bike every 6 months and there wasn't one of the classics he didn't have.
Nortons, Vincents,you name it. And he never rode them above 30mph. But the most beautiful one I thought he had was a BSA Shooting Star (I think they were called) in a lovely pale green.
Still remember the sound of it and think it was a 500 twin.
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I understand that Triumph employed sprung hub rear suspension up to the mid 1950s.
I wonder if these would be likely to cause trouble nowadays on the big Triumphs of that era, because spares must be unobtainable.
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Hillman; the 1957 T100C with twin carbs would hit 60 in 4.5 secs!
Lezebre: the sprung hub was pretty agricultural and I never heard of one going wrong. If it did there are enough old bike specialists to supply parts. It was fairly horrible to ride in the wet as I recall, used to get the jitters on bumps. The s/h ran up to 53 model year I think after which the Triumphs went to swing arm for the big babies.
Alvin: the BSA A7 Shooting Star was a 500 cc in metallic pale green. I always thought the best looking BSA's were the Gold Star singles (throw you over the bars if they back-fired on kick-start!) and the superb red and chrome Road Rockets of the late 50's. Get one of those with a set of clip-ons and you would have been the duck's guts at the Ace Café! Until the Bonneville hit the street that is.......
Where I live we have a great biker bar called the Handle Bar, it's all biker themed and has classics standing in the restaurant area which their owners put on display and change from time to time.
www.handlebar.com.ph/ Plenty of nostalgia, and on a Sat night I've seen over 200 bikes parked up.
Currently we have a Norton Commando, a Dominator SS, a wartime Harley, a 1963 Honda Benly 125, several custom Harley shovel- and pan-head choppers and a black and cream Triumph T110, not to mention cute little waitresses in crop-tops weaving back and forth between with burgers and beer. Abutting the bar is a workshop and I noted in there last night a Motoguzzi (like the one in the CHiPs TV series) a Vincent Comet in pieces, numerous Harleys and that very rare mid-70's Honda 750 Four with automatic transmission. I only know of two of those in the Philippines.
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"Honda 750 Four with automatic transmission."
Funny how auto trans never caught on. There's a guy here who still rides a 400 twin with 2-speed slush box (not a rare model, but not many left now - it must be over 20 years old) and rates it highly.
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Growler:
Thanks for the info. Age does dull the brain; the BSA 500 was a single. I feel sure it was B something. Anyway, it too would break your leg if you didn't get the a/r set right when you kicked it over. It leaked like a sieve and I gave it away. Wish I still had it!
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8 ball:
The Beeza 4-stroke singles ran as follows during the 50's: The C10L, with a feeble 250 side-valve engine, replaced by the C11G ohv, the B32 - a faithful 350 slogger usually ridden by men in long despatch rider coats, black berets and goggles!, the B33 (what you're talking about) which was a 500 cc single and the M20/21/22, 600 cc side-valves derived from the war-time despatch rider bikes that were much used for pulling sidecars full of Mum and the kids to Bexhill on weekends at 35 mph.
Then of course the 350 and 500 Goldies which were in a class of their own, the Brit single at its zenith. All right, the AJS 7R and the Manx Norton, but they weren't road bikes.
All solid if unexciting bikes: Ariel had a somewhat similar range. Segue into the 60's and the C15, B40, A50 and A65 models showed up with the unit engine and gearboxes, none of them was any real good reliability wise, although the C15 scramblers had some notable competition successes. Now then, where's that set of BSF spanners.....
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