Triumphrat

doodledog · 01-13-2008

Thought you guys might like to know about an amazing sight seen today, I went to a seaside town in Lincolnshire here in the UK, every two weeks through the winter a hardy band of loonies wait for the tie to go out then race motorcycles on the sand, ok so big deal for off roa bikes and even flat track speedway bikes but for me the star race is for street bikes fitted with knobblies, there are trs850's gsxr600's and such but there is a triumph you would not believe, its power plant is a 750 daytona circa about 1992, relined and bored out with tona 955 liners and pistons, its got a thruxton tank and seat renthal bars and lots of other unlikely mods, its just got straight through pipes and sounds like the gates of hell are swinging open, I have no idea really how to post a pic on here of this machine as when I try I get a message saying its to many bits or bytes or sum such nonsence but I will take some again next meeting, this bike beats everything off the line and up to the first corner then end up dropping back as it turns like a supertanker, but what a sight and sound when the tapes go up. I assume if you google sand racing at Mablethorpe you will get the idea of what a fantastic event this is. If you go onto the mablethorpe sand racing page and into pictures 9 dec 07 you will see said bike in action, he's number 30 and must have balls of steel.