Triumphrat

pabonne · 05-27-2009, 11:08 PM

Hello All

My wife (who deserves wife of the year honors btw) just picked this jewel up for my 40th b-day (even though I'm only turning 39 HONEST). Anyway, this is completely new to me. I have no idea where to start with this or where I should hope to end up. Any thoughts, ideas, suggestions, tips, advice, info etc. etc. would be much appreciated as I begin this exciting project. The bike does run (sounds awesome) and is ridable. It is a 69 TR6R. VIN CC15480TR6R

jimballard · 05-28-2009, 06:14 PM

Hi Pab,

Looks like it's all there, so, get a manual and parts book, kick it over to see if there's compression & spark, change the oils, check the tank for rust and the oil tank for "grunge" then see if it runs. The kickstart looks like it's sitting a bit rearward and you'd best turn the petcock(s) off; if there is fuel in it, the Amal float system isn't the greatest for preventing leaks. You'll find there's a lot of good advice on this forum and we're all more than willing to help. Just take your time and you'll do fine.

I love coffee as well and I wish I was turning 40 again: Jim

stewdog68 · 05-28-2009, 07:01 PM

man I need a wife like yours!!

looks like someone dug a '70s chopper out of the basement.

love it,congrats on a new adventure

GrandPaulZ · 05-28-2009, 08:50 PM

Cool! Not much needed to put it back near original (if that's what you want). Seat, fork tubes and mufflers. The fact that it's running already is a BIG plus.

pabonne · 05-28-2009, 11:00 PM

Thanks guys. I have an old shop manual and a Haynes manual and I've already started thumbing though both. I took the seat and sissy bar off and put the original seat back on. Looks great. I'm not sure which direction I'll take it but probably leaning toward original/cafe racer rather than the chopper style. Not that it's a bad look but I can't pull it off if you know what I mean.

I'm looking forward to digging into this forum and tapping into the collective brain trust here. I'll keep yous posted.

pookybear · 05-29-2009, 06:31 PM

Pa bonnie,

Sweet gift you got there. But please tell me that your wife has
a unmarried sister.

Pookybear

pabonne · 05-29-2009, 09:32 PM

Quote:

Sweet gift you got there. But please tell me that your wife has a unmarried sister.

The original owner told me I can remove some spacers to lower the forks back down to "normal". Before I dive in and start tearing the forks down, do any of you have any tips or suggestions on what I should be looking for here?

Also, there a swap meet locally this weekend, I may ride the Bon out to see what parts I can scrounge up.

GrandPaulZ · 05-29-2009, 09:38 PM

I've never heard of it, but it's entirely possible the forks have screw-in-extension tubes...

REG · 05-29-2009, 10:54 PM

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Originally Posted by pabonne

The original owner told me I can remove some spacers to lower the forks back down to "normal". Before I dive in and start tearing the forks down, do any of you have any tips or suggestions on what I should be looking for here?

rebuilt frontend on 68 saint. it had a piece of pipe about 50mm slid over each stauntion before the spring was slid on. maybe to combat sagging springs but also lifted frontend of bike. threw them away and fiited heavy duty springs.

i wonder if the spacer talked of are the tubes halfway along each spring and at top of same. as shown in yr pic??

jimmy bush · 05-29-2009, 11:14 PM

I actually have a set of the screw in stanchion extensions. You screw them to the top of the fork tubes where the caps normally go. They have male threads on one end and female on the other like the original fork caps. They're about 8" long. I took them off of a set of forks in my stash and threw them in a milk crate with some other junk parts. Thought "you'd have to be nuts to ride soomething like that."