Saturday, March 3, 2012

GP Tiger

This is my new favorite motorcycle. Inexpressibly cool.

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Flathead45 said...

I picked up the February Issue of "Classic Bike" in London. There's. an article about "the original Tritons", supposedly the first time this modification was performed. Anyway, one of them is powered by a 1951 T100 engine. There are some really detailed photos, and they are unrestored.

Let me know if you don't have it, and I can try to ship it to you

March 3, 2012 at 8:57 PM
BitMonkey said...

I don't have that issue and would be interested in seeing it.

The Triton thing baffles me a little. A '51 T100 can't have much more poop than the Norton mill (but it might be way lighter, all alloy). Maybe it's reliability or the availability of hop up parts. It's hard to tell where the performance advantage ends and the novelty begins. Something tells me Panhead in a Featherbed = Novelty.

March 3, 2012 at 9:09 PM
Quaffmeister said...

Looks like we're starting down the same path man, I've got a 55 T100 motor waiting in the wings and am getting caught up in the whole Tiger 100 mystique.
Regarding the Triton thing, you are right Triumph twins were always the hot poop compared to any other twin, also not all featherbeds had twins fitted in 'em so in a lot of cases it was dropping out an old cooking single to replace it with a Triumph.

March 4, 2012 at 12:08 AM
Flathead45 said...

As described in the article, one Triton has the T100 engine, and the other has "a 650 cc 6T-based motor with a proprietary Alfin linered alloy barrel made by Wellworthy, surely a great rarity now". Both Tritons were built in 1953. SOunds like the T100-powered bike was underpowered, and trying to make it competitive resulted in regular engine tear-downs...

March 4, 2012 at 9:44 AM

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