Triumph

The Triumph Scrambler "Jack Pine Special"..

I haven’t had time to check so this may be a re-post and if so I apologize.  I keep coming across this bike on the web and I keep coming back to oogle it.  It may push me over the top to just buy a darn scrambler and get on with it. God she’s a beauty…

British "Fest" from the Islands!

Joe Abramo sends in some great stuff all the way from Hawaii!

He Writes:
Surf on over to see the complete web pages……….


http://www.napaliprop.com/72-Commando.html
http://www.napaliprop.com/66bsa.html
http://www.napaliprop.com/2008-T-100.html


Love the MPOD concept!!
I go there every day now.

Joe Abramo

Great Stuff!  Thanks Joe!

Some Reader Ride "Wanderlust" Shots.

I think I’ve hit a vein here. Judging by the response I’d say there’s a lot of it going around!
Paul and Aaron sent in these 2 great bikes and great shots!  Thanks gents!

Paul’s 2000 883 on a trip to the Outer Banks of North Carolina with his son last year….

…and Aaron’s Triumph Trophy 900 at Lake Almanor in 2003.

Reader Ride. A rare 1971 T120RV, a 5 speed Bonneville.

This in from Dogtown Cycles.  They write:

A rare T120RV, a 5 speed Bonneville from 1971 with matching engine and frame numbers. The T120RV was released in the US in 1972, to permit Triumph to use them in American Motorcycle Association production-based racing.  But a few were imported in late model year 1971.  In order to race, all bikes had to be made and sold to the public in the same basic form as they would be raced. To meet this requirement Triumph had to produce and sell 200 of them before they qualified.


The Engine/Frame number, T120RV GE25619 is coded as follows:  The ‘T120R denotes this is a 650cc Bonneville, ‘R’ for a road bike, the ‘V’ five speed. The first ‘G’ in the engine and frame number represents June and the ‘E’ is for 1971 production.  As you can see it has the original and correct Triumph logo printed behind the engine serial number, for 1969 and later models.

With the exception of the stamping on the engine case, there were no external differences between the 4- and 5-speeds. They had the same final drive ratios and sprockets, and the 5-speeds were significantly quicker.

This bike has been completely rebuilt with less than 100 miles since. The engine was thoroughly gone through with a new valve job, guides, rings (std.), main & rod bearings (std.), gaskets, seals,etc. HPC coated TT pipes with removeable internal baffles. It was upgraded with a 1973 disc brake front end with resurfaced rotor, new seals/fluid and polished lower legs.  New Marzocchi shocks at the rear. It has like-new  4.00 x 19 Street Tracker tires front and rear on excellent original rims and spokes.

Yamaha and Triumph. A Serious Set of Street Trackers from RIding Into History.

And not to mention those sick custom billet track-stands!! I mean Damm!

Riding into History Show and I had the wrong Camera… Brough Superior. Arial Square Four. Vincent. Triumph

Next few days will be some of the better posts from the local Riding Into History Motorcycle Concourse in St Augustine Florida. Sadly, I packed the wrong lower resolution camera so my pics are not as sharp as I’d usually hope for. A little post processing seems to have given them some usefulness though. Here’s some of the first pics I snapped. I was an perfect day and an outstanding event. 

FYI: If you want to see the whole album go to the “Links to full albums” page at the top of this blog and there are links to this album as well as most of the rest of my pics.  Enjoy!