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1952 Triumph Thunderbird

Found this one thru Vorhese. I decided to snag & archive all the photos because it's inevitable I'm gonna want a close up of something esoteric somewhere down the road and they will provide it. This thing is so rad!

Gauge Porn

The Rev-0-meter face my lovely wife bought me for our anniversary. Thanks Mo-Ma. I'm told selling and repairing Smiths gauges in the US the 60's wasn't easy with the last name of Lucas...

1964 Triumph Bonneville

I've now seen this Bonneville pop up on Vancouver CL a couple of times. Looks to be super clean and original. One of my favorite years esthetically for the units. Not sure I'd pay $7000 for a non-running bike...

Machine

Great stuff.

MACHINE from matt machine on Vimeo.

VL-Pan

Recently posted on JJ. I like it.

Triumph Obsession

I first heard about this collection through the Vorhese blog. I'm only posting it because I thought I might want to be able to find the attached picture again someday. I wish I could find a bigger picture.



This mammoth collection of classic Triumphs has just been revealed by a US collector, and represents a near-perfect history of the British marque's pre-Hinckley production.

The 98-strong fleet - which contains 26 variants of the TR6 Trophy and 43 different models of the T120 Bonneville - covers bikes from every production year of the 1936-72 Triumph Engineering company.

Built up over the past 21 years by private businessman Robert Sullivan, it contains a slew of original and rare models, including the Tiger, Speed Twin, Trophy and Bonneville.

The Seattle Connection

I received a care package from Flathead Rob today! Among the contents was a reproduction headlight switch and a bezel for it Rob turned in his garage on his 1940's Atlas lathe.

I put the switch in and it looked absolutely beautiful. It also occurred to me that if I made a couple small mods to the original Lucas switch I have I could probably make it work with Rob's bezel (at least until I wire it up and discover it's shorted and have to put the repop back in...). Anyway, here it is:



So about the bezel. Rob hasn't the lathe all that long and is a fairly rookie machinist. That said, the thing is a piece of fricken art! It's easily my favorite part on the bike now. Seriously, if I ever sell Emma I could see myself pulling it off and keeping it. I don't know how many of you have a brother you really share interests with but I can't tell you how cool it is to productively collaborate on a bike project despite being 1500 miles apart.

Now you might just be thinking "Dude, you just did an entire blog post about putting a fricken switch on your bike." To that I say fuck off and get your own blog;)

Thanks Rob, I owe you one.

Assistance

It's nice to have help. I finally fitted a chain today so I could count speedo cable revolutions to calibrate my speedo. V is doing lots of counting, measuring and addition for school right now. Getting him to help me measure out the distance and count speedo turns made it all much more fun. I can't believe how much he's grown up this year.



It's really rad to have a kid that's a gearhead. Lookout AHRMA, he makes for a killer power to weight ratio...



Emma hasn't seen too much light of day thus far. Had to include at least one gratuitous shot of her alone.

'47 Von Dutch?

You must be familiar with this bike (cross-posted from Straightspeed). All you need is the turbo...

1951 Triumph TR5

Steve McQueen's Trophy. Could be yours (rather than Yoshi's) for only $25,000.

1939 Speedtwin

Kinda cool.