1924 Triumph SD....question

[speedo]

This is my first post ,hope someone can help. A friend and I are restoring a 1924 Triumph  SD.Can someone tell me what the tapped hole on the underside of the handlebar is for?

[speedo]

I would have thought that someone would be able to answer my question ,very disappointing !

[cardan]

I don't feel the urge to apolgise: I have no first hand knowledge of SD Triumphs so I doubt I'm the person to ask. Anyway, since you sound pretty desperate, let me have a go.

Assuming the bars are the originals from your bike, let's assume it is used for something. Does your bike have a stirrup front brake? Maybe something to do with that? If the bike has two inverted levers (front brake on the right, exhaust lifter on the left?), these cables must come out of the inside of the bars somewhere. Is is obvious where this happens? Maybe the exhaust lifter comes out somewhere along the left bar, but the brake cable comes out directly above the stirrup brake, in which case the thread might be for a spring box (for the return) and where the cable joins to the brake rod.

Possible? If not, does it mount one of those single-stem Lucas electric headlights? (Does the bike have electric lights?)

Do you have a parts list? Sales brochures? Magazine reports? Adverts? Photographed every detail of every SD and Ricardo you've come across? Research should really come before nickel plate.

Cheers

Leon

[cardan]

Here's a parts list: http://www.triumphmodelh.com/SpareRepairs/SparesManual.html

On page 23 http://www.triumphmodelh.com/SpareRepairs/Pages.php?pg=23 you'll find the brake group. I wonder if you're looking for part no. 2828 and the accompanyiny pieces?

[speedo]

Cardan, thank you for your response and the fact that you are not familier with Triumph SD M/C . However the information that you have supplied is most useful and appreciated . I myself do not know much about Triumphs however my friend Jeff who does not have a computor asked me to assist him . He will come to my home tomorrow and have a look at what info you have supplied .
My bike is a 1927 Raleigh ,model 15.
Regards

[TriSpec]

I tried to answer this yesterday but the system rejected my password.

Whether it's for a stirrup style front brake would depend upon the year. If you could let me have the frame and engine numbers, with the three letters following the engine number on the crankcase I could give the assembly date and say whether the bike should have a stirrup brake or not. If it should, I can provide a drawing with dimensions for manufacture of same.

Peter C.
VMCC Triumph Specialist. <peter@triumph.gen.nz>  or via www.triumph.gen.nz

[Rex]

I would have thought that someone would be able to answer my question ,very disappointing !

Yeah, I advertised for a basket case Vincent Black Shadow for under a hundred quid....guess what, I was disappointed too....

If you'd Googled for info on Model H's that site would have come up; I know this because I found it when I Googled "vintage Triumph" when after P parts, so rather than bemoan the fact that no-one here knew the answer, maybe you should have chased it up yourself?

You're looking at the best resourcing tool for old bike parts and info ever invented, so why not make use of it?

[speedo]

Tri Spec........thank you for your informative reply ,I can get you those numbers tomorrow .

Rex ,you know something, on every forum there is a smart arse! Are you the resident smart arse on this one?

[Revband]

Now now Children, play nicely please.

[speedo]

Yes I'm quite happy to play nicely as you put it. Perhaps the other plonker should pull his head in and grow up.........there are specific sites for would be ''Jokers''.

[Rex]

Yes I'm quite happy to play nicely as you put it. Perhaps the other plonker should pull his head in and grow up.........there are specific sites for would be ''Jokers''.

What a nice pleasant chap. I ignored your first dig/response, but you seem determined to get some sort of reaction, so here it is.

If you looked properly you would have seen one of these smilies-  in my post, and that means it's just banter, nothing serious (as if advising someone to use Google is offensive anyway ) but there you go, though judging by the tone of your second post on the SD, I'd say you were up for it anyway.

Well done to you Speedo, chalk yourself up as the first poster I've seen to be unpleasant on this site.

You must be so proud......

[speedo]

Look Rex ,I asked a simple question ,others responded in an informative  manner and I thank them for that . You chose to try and be clever ,your use of ''Smilies '' is your problem ........i responded to what you wrote ,no information ,only an attempt to be clever . If you could or would not give me any information perhaps it might have been a good idea to remain silent .
I personaly could not care less as to your opinion of me and you can sulk as much as you like ,you can also carry on with this but I have said all I want to ......I have other things to do !

[yebbut]

Thank you for doing us the favour of asking for free information.
Like the man said ,research before nickel plate, you should have built the bike and found/made all the bits first.

If you want people to hold your hand its best not to stamp your foot when you need info.

[Martin_UK]

Well said Yebbut, ditto from me too.

Don't ask for help and then throw your teddies out of the pram when people don't drop everything and come running. It won't win you friends on this or any other forum.

[yebbut]

how does he get to be an advanced member on his first post?