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British Bikes / Re: Extortionate Nuts and Bolts
« on: December 19, 2007, 12:06:07 AM »
One good reason why not is that it looks so f*****g awful!
It looks like the builder/rider has no idea of engineering, but merely buys his stuff at the local B&Q; not good.
Far from being ignorant buffoons or incompetent, the users of old Imperial threadforms were actually very efficient and the threads diverse enough for any application, unlike the subsequent Unified stuff which was only adopted to enable the British manufacturers to sell in the US.  

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British Bikes / Re: TR5C ?
« on: December 11, 2007, 05:09:59 PM »
It has ET ignition, so that's a bit more complex than twist-and-spark. Try Haynes or Triumph number 4 for a good manual, as it's not that different from the other 500s of the time.
There's a book on Triumph Trophies which gives a good run-down on this bike with pics too.
Typical that some chopper dork had to pick a valuable frame to screw up, when there's loads of ordinary Tigers or 5TAs he could have destroyed instead.....

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British Bikes / Re: TR5C ?
« on: December 10, 2007, 07:01:46 PM »
Hi, that's a genuine TR5AC made for 1961 only, and very rare. I believe only 691 were made in total, and they're sought after.
One went for a huge sum a while back in one of the big US auctions.
I hope some numb-nuts hasn't irrepairably skunked the frame by chopping it, because you'd be lucky to get another matching number TR ever!
Nice bike!

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