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British Bikes / Re: BMW forks onto a Commando.
« on: October 20, 2016, 10:17:15 PM »
Simon, not being nasty, but when I first read your post I thought you was joking. It's sort of like coming here and saying ... Hey I've got a featherbed manx norton that I'm going to put a cantilever rear end on. The reaction you received was justified when you want to perform an abortion on a classic motorcycle. I only hope you're not planning to slice the cylinders down the middle, and stick them out each side of the motor.

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British Bikes / Re: pre unit bonnie
« on: October 19, 2016, 09:50:31 PM »
I must admit, ebay is an option. As I mentioned, I recently put a heap of pre unit stuff on ebay, and the prices they bought were insane. Example.. a set of rigid frame triumph primary cases were bid up to $650.00 by a bloke from Japan. But I'm sure there are many of us, who have looked back on bikes we've owned in the past, and thought bloody hell, I wish I hadn't sold that. I have always loved the bikes from the 50's and early 60's. It's probably my age showing, but to me it was the golden age of motorcycling.
Yes, there faults were many, but you didn't need to be an I.T. specialist to tune them, nor were they coated in overpriced plastic bits that made them look like they had been beaten with an ugly stick. To me, the pre unit triumph motor was one of the prettiest looking motors ever made, and warts and all, they early bikes had a character that later model bikes seem to lack, but as I said, maybe it's my age showing. But I appreciate hearing other peoples opinions.

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British Bikes / Re: pre unit bonnie
« on: October 19, 2016, 11:02:40 AM »
Thanks for the reply, bmw forks? I wouldn't do anything that nasty to a triumph. When I said mongrel, I didn't mean cross bred and nasty. I meant forks and wheels etc off a unit triumph maybe. My desire is to get it on the road again.

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British Bikes / pre unit bonnie
« on: October 19, 2016, 10:03:32 AM »
I have a rather interesting problem...... a few months ago a mate asked if I would help clean out a big shed, from a deceased estate. It was full mainly of early triumph parts, which he wanted me to sell on ebay, which I did. Anyways to cut a long story short, in return for my help I ended up with a basket case that the deceased owner must of had ear marked as a project, as it was separate from the rest of the parts.
It consists of a 59 t120 bottom end and matching frame, with a 9 stud bonnie top end, primary cases, gearbox cases with a box full of gearbox internals, clutches, etc. plus an oil tank, engine mounts, magneto, generator, rear shockies, and that's basically it. The triumph register tell me it was shipped to Australia in April 1959.
Bearing in mind that it's basically half a bike, what's your opinions on the best approach? To try to source all the parts to restore it to original would cost a squillion dollars, assuming the parts could be found Worldwide, ( long odds ) So I guess my only option is to create a mongrel. what would you do in this situation?

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