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What I did with my classic Triumph today?

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#1 · (Edited)
As a Hinkley triple owner (don't hate me guys!) I sometimes also read the threads on that section of the Triumph Rat forum and they have a long running thread "what I did to my classic triple today" or something very similar. Posters put up a few lines about what they did with their 'bikes that day..... polished it, rode it, rebuilt it, crashed it, etc etc you get the idea, anything goes really.

Anyway, thought it might be worth starting a similar thread here as I'm selling the "modern" 'bike and concentrating on my classics.
I'll start it off....

Today I got back my speedo which I'd sent to the UK for repair. It was working but had a lot of needle "flutter". Looks like new (still) and can't wait to try it out....

OK who's next?

Richard
 
#5 ·
Spray painted bottom fork yoke and front brake caliper.

Cleaned up handlebar switches and polished up a few other bits and bobs.

Going to take the top yoke for shot blasting and powder coating, then will put the front all back together.

I just love tinkering with the old girl while listening to the radio - it's sooooooo relaxing.
 
#12 ·
As a Hinkley triple owner (don't hate me guys!) I sometimes also read the threads on that section of the Triumph Rat forum and they have a long running thread "what I did to my classic triple today" or something very similar. Posters put up a few lines about what they did with their 'bikes that day..... polished it, rode it, rebuilt it, crashed it, etc etc you get the idea, anything goes really.
Last night while in the garage on some errand I stopped and stroked her smooth, rounded parts and told her she was beautiful.
 
#14 · (Edited)
classic plates

I mounted my new license tags; they expire in 2016 and cost me $133. Then I drank a Spaten Octoberfest, which cost me $1.25. It's a white-out blizzard here. It's a good day do break out the luge and scream all the way down to the mailbox. I gotta have my speed rush. I spent $73 without leaving my house. The machinist called and my 650 crank is done 30 under, the last grind on that one. Bob
 
#18 ·
in search of 190's or "Lost in Space"

Well, after checking my pockets 100 times I went through the Amal box 3 or 4 times checking every little box, nothing. Retraced the paths from the shed to the house several times, nothing, looked aroud the computer, nothing. Checked the garage, bathroom, kitchen table, work bench, washing machine top, nothing. Went out and did a complete sweep of the entire back yard thinking I might have had them in my hand and dropped them during a spontaneous game of chase with the dog that occurred between finding and loosing the jets. Three pounds of dog poop later (figured I might as well accomplish something while I was walking back and forth staring at the ground), nothing. Check the shed, garage, bathroom, kitchen, computer (again), and everywhere else I thought I might have ventured, nothing. I concede defeat. I went to the bathroom to take care of some business and remember throwing away some scraps of cardboard I had removed from the Amal box. Checked the bottom of the trash, Eureka!!!!! Sure wish I would have remembered doing that first.
 
#19 ·
Originally posted by Coloradobob:
I mounted my new license tags; they expire in 2016 and cost me $133.

But, if the world ends in 2012, as the Mayans are supposed to have predicted, look at the money you've wasted!!

The mind of the "village idiot" works in these ways, you know: Jim
 
#21 ·
It's been too cold to go into the garage, but now it's warmer so tomorrow I'll take off the Optimate from the battery, remove the seat and tank, check the tappets, replace a duff horn, and the speedo cable, check the chain and sproket wear, and few other little jobs. Then maybe I'll actually ride it!
 
#26 ·
This evening I just finished dyeing my home built seat black.
I made it from an old brown jacket and a hardwood base. Not the best looking but I didn't like the small solo saddle as it showed too much frame.
This is one of many tries, probably not the last.
Since its a collections of bits I can get away with almost anything I guess.


 
#27 ·
Been looking for a month for my 1/4" socket long extension & universal to take the intake rocker cover off and adjust the intake valves, with no luck. Finally went & bought new ones, set them right beside Bonne where I can't miss them so I can adjust them tomorrow.

Was an incredible 57 deg. here today, but I wouldn't think of taking my new paint up my slippery, 100% mud in some places 1/2 mile drive for a ride even if I did have all the tins back in place - which I don't. Anyway, was out of town most of the daY.....

Need to take a collection to raise about $1,500.00 US for new gravel on my drive before I take Bonne out.......either that or pave a 3 foot wide strip for 1/2 mile.......

Hey, Rath! For less than one day - you already have 3 pages of stuff! You hit a hot button, for sure!
 
#31 · (Edited)
Chasin' a misfire

Richard! Good thread, love reading what the others are doing. DaveDone's seat looks fabulous and the rest of you made me cry realizing I quit drinking 20+ years ago before I ever tasted a Guinness...

Today. Today it was one of those Oregon winter days without rain. Rains for thirteen days-stops for one - Rains for thirteen days-stops for one - Rains for thirteen days-stops for one, all the way to May. (Yeah, yeah - it could be worse... but I'm from San Diego <sigh>

So today when I got off work, it was still a teensy bit light outside, so I took my 67 T100 up and down the highway trying to find why it doesn't run as good as it did a couple of months ago (see other post).

Then I looked wistfully at my 650 parts wishing I had the $$ to put it together...
 
#32 ·
Don't drive at night but want my headlight to be on high beam during the day but the flipper switch on my 1971 Tiger does not work. So had a spare inner plastic with all the wires solder to it and made a change with the one the did not work so now I have working high and low beam (or main and dip as stated in the workshop manual).

Mid winter here at Lat 54 degrees North. 18 Year single malt helps keep the body warm and brain numb.
 
#33 ·
Yesterday I changed the Doughty washer at the bottom of the RHS fork slider. Used a long length of welding rod up through the hole in the bottom of the slider, dropped the washer over it, then poked the welding rod up the hole in the damper assy - that allowed me to replace the slider, and make sure the washer stayed in the right place. It worked, and no leak now. (Then had several pints of Green King IPA (£2.80/pint) in the village pub :beerchug ).
 
#35 ·
Today I
fixed my carb issues by keying the throttle springs into the needle plate, when I put in new cables I botched it

soldered my ground wires and included the ground coming out of the harness

discovered a new erratic clank/tap noise coming out of the primary or behind it.......
 
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