ATTITUDE!!

BERT MUNRO need I say more

I LIKE THIS!

NOT MUCH TO SAY ABOUT THIS BUT NIIICE
more pics and info here

I know what is going on my Christmas list!!

I was at Kempton Park yesterday, it was the off road show and the Ace Cafe was hosting flat tracker corner. Saw Ben on the sideburn stall, apparently the last time we saw each other was at my wedding.. the first one! I've got a 15 year old daughter,a divorce and a second wife since then!! It's been a while, good to catch up Ben!! Our chat reminded me about this.
FlatTrack Training School 2012 by the guys at short track racing UK



Looks like a fun way to spend a day learning how to go sideways something I've only ever achieved by accident and certainly not under control!

A SALTY 241

Bikes and The Salt make for cool pictures!! double engined double cool?
Tyler's Double Vision as featured on Ride a Triumph.com

'ED TURNER

Here's a couple more reversed head bikes of the long chopped variety

This is apparently Ben's Gothic Chop.
This one I like a lot,specially  the pipes

Thanks to Dragon RIP for these from the JJ's Triumph Choppers thread

The art of Coop

               first came across Coop in the late 80's when he did a load of record sleeves particularly for                                                                                                                                                     

 

http://www.estrus.com

           was trawling the web tonight,looking at this and that and ended up here
                                                           

Check it out

Don't know what the story is but looking through the site they seem a bit flakey and no update since April but worth a look to remind yourself how cool his stuff is or to acquaint yourself with it.Sure a quick search will reveal more.......

A little while later and...looky here his own blog! That will take you to this cool skull artwork

COOP’s “Memento Mori”

and there's more his flickr account with tons of images.Have fun

                                          

'ED TURNER Burning Rubber

                           Keith Parnell on Rouge et Noir II  giving a masterclass on the burn out

Smoking!!

Keith was the first europeen to to break 9s for the 1/4mile with a 8.93 run
got this info from a thread on the Triumph Rat forum

After our successful season in 1975 Mick Hand, Angus McPhail and myself decided that due to the poor handling of the old bike which kept trying to throw me off we would build a new bike for the 1976 season.

We had already used the 76mm short stroke crank in the original bike after the eight second engine grenaded itself at Aintree caused by a broken rocker and all the boost going into one cylinder. The stock used Triumph alloy rods gave up the ghost and there wasn’t much of the motor left.
We also decide that for the new season we would need a more reliable blower than the Shorrocks C75B which was being run far above its safe limit trying to get more power.
So Gordon Allen of Allen Engineering made the EN40B billet crank and steel rods to Angus’ spec. Being made from a 6” billet instead of 7” meant the centre flywheel, which is a complete circle runs in an elliptical fashion in the cases to obtain the balance factor. For fine tuning there is a 1” screwed in bung that can be wound in or out to get balance. The crank is very rigid and can run to 9000 rpm without any problems and is very smooth.
The three of us were invited down to Weslake Engineering in Ryde for a look round and they kindly donated a cylinder head and barrels off an 850 motor for our use. They also supplied some RR56 alloy piston blanks.
Mick machined up the pistons to 79mm an aquired MTP quality rings for them. These combined with the 76mm stroke of the crank resulted in a capacity of I believe 748cc’s.
Being as the Weslake motor used the same points of origin for the cams as the old Triumph motor it meant the push rods leant outwards on the new motor instead of inwards as the Triumph.
After initial runs the Weslake head proved to be weak in the casting behind the valve seats for 80% nitro and subsequently Pete Davies of Puma Engineering fitted steel skulls in the head with the valves cut directly into the skull avoiding any more loose valve seats. We also fitted Cosworth DFV exhaust valves which are a lot better quality than the originals but being slightly shorter meant some small hardened valve caps are used to make the length up and keep the operating angle of the rockers correct.
Angus beefed up the original 6T crankcases and mounted the crank on a 50mm diameter Ena needle roller bearing on the drive side and back to back ball bearings on the timing side.
The cams are stock EN3134 items running standard Triumph 34/55 and 55/34 timing. The final drive sprocket is mounted on the end of the crank and is not splined but drives through eight Allen bolts which pass through the blower pulley and sprocket into the crank.
Bert Hopkinson, a friend of Mick was commissioned to produce the two speed gearbox and Ag decided it should mount fore and aft in the frame to avoid the twisting effect generated by the Norton box mounting top and bottom.
I obtained a Wade 900cc cabin blower from Freddie Cooper which basically is just an air pump so for us to put a fair amount of fuel through it Mick removed the labyrinth seals and installed neoprene oil seals in their place plus originally the shafts were only “stump” shafts. Mick removed them from the rotors and machined the rotors deeper to accept stronger, longer shafts. With this setup the blower revs to 12000 rpm without fuss and produces 30 lbs of boost. It actually made 33 lbs but we made a new pulley to bring the boost down to 30 psi.
A magnesium Jaguar size back wheel was donated by Minilite and Mick made up a wheel carrier to adapt it to a bike. Angus obtained some Ford 10SE con rods and cut the tops of so the clamp end could be adapted to carry the rear wheel spindle giving maximum rigidity to the assembly.
That meant with the motor, gearbox and rear wheel we were ready to produce a frame. Mick made up all the fittings and engine mounts and Angus brought the whole thing together in his workshop over one weekend.
I bought a set of MP forks and a Honda tls front wheel and the rolling chassis was finished.
Ag made up the exhaust pipes and for ignition we ran the old polar induction Lucas magneto off original bike

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Here is a short interview with Keith Parnell on the Eurodragster.com website

off with her head

                                                  stripped the Bonnie, got to get rid of those leaks

while I'm at it ....new headlight, Nice!
Now need to make a bracket.

DAVE HOUGHTON'S 'ED TURNER

This is a fast one, I've nicked it from the Fang's site ( hope you don't mind!)..  the pics are not great and my trawl of the web as not found anything better

Dave Houghton and his mid50's speedtwin based bike.
8.87s 161mph of nitro fuelled speed

reversed head, Shorrocks C75 blower,SU carb minus the float bowl
total loss oil system,Yamaha FS1E front end,Bewley 2 speed gearbox ,years of development all add up to one fast Triumph!

I lied just found this!!

                                            

Dave Houghton is no longer with us and I would just like to dedicate this post to him and his like whose quest for speed was carried out largely anonymously and on largely no budget mostly for the love of it and engendered invention and originality. RIP

I LIKE THIS! -A nice pair..

                                                                  From over on Chop Cult

mystery build by CLASSIC CYCLES' Tony Dunn

BORN FREE's Mike Davis' Yokohama Mooneyes build

ANOTHER 'ED TURNER

                                                       A chopper but not as we know it,

this one will spin your head right round!!

Want one? Build your own, get the plans. See vortech's quality parts for building the Choppy

'ED TURNERS

back to front head on this pre unit from Southern Classic Customs in Atlanta

Pete Stanfield's from Eat the Rich take on the idea

                               

And here is a Triton from over on Chopper Town Nation

 Or you could power a midget racer 

                                  

And finally for today this by Roberto Totti. Check his site out, some wild work on there!
Thanks to my friends at Sideburn  for this one     

         

Got a spare $32500?

As a follow up to my posting  a picture of T100R in one of my "I really like this!" post, here is a nice replica up for sale on Wayne's triumph motorcycle blog of a GP bike based on a 1949 frame and gearbox.Loads more info on this bike and others on what looks to be an interesting blog.

                      

                   
                       

lightning timing gears the Dwain Taylor way- Update

                                
                                 
Just been trawling the web looking to see if I could get a copy of Dwain Taylor's Tuning the Triumph 650 book.I have a PDF of the book but I'm a bit old fashioned and like having the real thing to leaf through. So far no luck.I couldn't even find the PDF anywhere just one blog with a broken link.
I've also noted that my previous post with the pictures of lightened timing gears is possibly the most viewed.
So in the spirit of Dwain Taylor's intro to the booklet and I quote:
 " the information in this book is free, although we have no way of knowing how much it as cost through trial and error to learn what will work to advantage and what will not"
 If anyone is interested drop me a line and I will share the PDF.
should this infringe any copyright please let me know, but also note that I'm not doing it for profit in any way. Just sharing something I previously found

Hen's teeth

1939 T100 bronze cylinder head

this came and went  for a tidy £3230 on the bay. Rare as the proverbial hen's teeth WWII cut production short to 300 examples.
The only others I've seen are at the National motorcycle museum and on T100 that was at the Ace,having been ridden there earlier this year

I REALLY LIKE THIS!

Bike envy, not pretty -but this one is!!

1955 T100R- arguably Triumph at it's very best

I REALLY LIKE THIS!

work in progress,like it so far!

I REALLY LIKE THIS!

                      RetroRob posted these pics of his retro racer inspired build over on the JJ                           

Job well done I say!!

NICE SHOT

241

Don't normally do BSA but found this over on Anglo Bobbers

I really like the way the engines have been joined.Was up for sale wonder if  it ever ran?

LONGSUE

Long awaited parcel finally made it to my door and was unwrapped in double quick time.

Here it is: Longsue's back end! A David Bird +4-1 hardtail

Couldn't resist putting it together with the front loop.

A HAPPY DAY!!

      

Once again thank you to Joe at Chopped Triumphs for helping to make it all happen.

241 +

Made me chuckel!

I REALLY LIKE THESE!

Posted by Mojomick on the JJ. Thanks for letting me repost some of his pics from the Ramsey Sprint.
An 1/8th mile sprint on the sea front on the Isle of Man.
Two 750's built and run by Simon Rees, one blown and one not.Both very nice to look at.

THE GRENADE

MIGHTY MOUSE

 
Once again extra information is provided by Keith Lee
It took a little while to catch up with Simon Rees to answer your questions.
So far the blown 750 Triumph number 136 has run 11.5s on methanol as he still gets used to running it. Simon is looking to beef the gearbox up to allow better starts, which will improve times.
The answer regarding the long tube used on his unblown 750 Triumph, is that it is a forced air cooler into the clutch area. Simon has a belt drive under the cover and wanted to help keep the temperature down.
A washing machine tube is used - and Simon reckons it runs on the sprint cycle! (Blame him, not me, for that one)
Interestingly, best times for both bikes currently are within about a couple of hundredths of a second.

A bit more info from the man himself here

Time on your hands?

Here is somewhere to kill some time!!

                    

Insight into the British Drag Racing Scene.

Loads of Bike stuff

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                                          Alternative layout for duel engined Triumph
                                                     1300cc Blown V formation

Posted by DannyF over on the JJ in the very cool Vintage Fuel Drag Bikes thread

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                                      "That is Ray Baskerville back in England in the early 70's
                          He is a very talented engineer.He and Pete Miller designed and built their own engine.
                                       They also made slider clutches and gearboxes"
                                                   Info supplied by Keith Lee.
                                Check out his book. Very informative and full of cool bikes and riders

Kempton Park Haul

Scored this little lot at the weekend...

Oil filter probably for the Triton, hub will find it's way to the Longsue build shelf,  Stainless exhaust clamps and throttle are for the presently ailing Bonnie.A couple of  tap & die wrenches ( the 1"1/2 die wrench a £2 bargain!) and a depth gauge & a Withworth thread gauge

Another Kempton park spot

           Interesting!! 1928 Villiers 250 twin port single engine & Albion gearbox in a Triumph Terrier frame

 

                                              Liking the tank and hand gear shift

                                          And the very practical basket!

CHECK THIS OUT

                                           Craig List bargain 1970 650

Hurst/Airheart brakes,ARD mag set up,Ceriani GP forks,Mikuni's, bates light and folding pegs,Morgo barrels ,matching numbers,clean title all for $1200 !! What chance of finding a bargain like that over here?