I had a 72 Triumph Tiger and loved that oil in tank setup. Where the tank used to be was a tool holder shaped like the old tank. Changing the oil and cleaning the metal mesh oil filter was a breeze. My front end was 8 inches over. Summer of 79 I rode it from Coast Guard Airstation Traverse City Michigan down to Airstation Mobile Alabama TDY to their summer Aviation Cadet Training period as a backup duty Flight Mech / Hoist Operator. My first time in steam bath weather. Thank God they stuck me on nights. No no ocifers or chiefs around. Light duty taking fuel samples and doing inspections. Got to read books a lot unless there was a rescue launch. Loved my riding my bike down there tho.
Man that reminds me when I owned my welding business. It was a small business. I would get this far more call me and say oh hey man I got this gate it's it's broke it's broke just in one spot and needs to be welded. When you go out there and he basically run over the gate with a tractor. And the support post for the gate was completely rotted out at the base. When he told me It would just a couple hours.. you get out there and add be 7-8 hours worth of work. You know you tell him it'd be like thousand bucks. He'd freak out. Everybody always thinks it's just throw it together.
I had a '70 Triumph chopper that looked amazingly like this bike. I had a pic, but its long been missing. At the same time i had a '70 Beetle and a Yahama 250 trail bike. I was in hog Heaven in those days, lol. It was 1972 and I was 20. Worked 4 jobs and went to school.
if you use a UV pen and UV flashlight, (you can get them cheap from banggood) you can write all over the bike and it is invisible to the naked eye – only the UV light will show what you wrote – comes in handy if you forget what you were working on if you leave the vehicle for a few days
At the end of the day, a swing arm frame is a swing arm frame. They never look clean like a rigid. You sit on the bike not in it. Been building and riding rigid bobbers and chops for over 50 years. To this day I can't build a swing arm bike. Maybe when I get older I keep telling myself.
I have several old Triumphs. I've restored several and now I'm working on a hardtail that will be similar to that one when I'm done.
I had a 72 Triumph Tiger and loved that oil in tank setup.
Where the tank used to be was a tool holder shaped like the old tank.
Changing the oil and cleaning the metal mesh oil filter was a breeze.
My front end was 8 inches over.
Summer of 79 I rode it from Coast Guard Airstation Traverse City Michigan down to Airstation Mobile Alabama TDY to their summer Aviation Cadet Training period as a backup duty Flight Mech / Hoist Operator.
My first time in steam bath weather.
Thank God they stuck me on nights.
No no ocifers or chiefs around.
Light duty taking fuel samples and doing inspections.
Got to read books a lot unless there was a rescue launch.
Loved my riding my bike down there tho.
Stock frame with a yoke rake
Oyie Boyie 🤔
Man that reminds me when I owned my welding business. It was a small business. I would get this far more call me and say oh hey man I got this gate it's it's broke it's broke just in one spot and needs to be welded. When you go out there and he basically run over the gate with a tractor. And the support post for the gate was completely rotted out at the base. When he told me It would just a couple hours.. you get out there and add be 7-8 hours worth of work. You know you tell him it'd be like thousand bucks. He'd freak out. Everybody always thinks it's just throw it together.
I had a '70 Triumph chopper that looked amazingly like this bike. I had a pic, but its long been missing. At the same time i had a '70 Beetle and a Yahama 250 trail bike. I was in hog Heaven in those days, lol. It was 1972 and I was 20. Worked 4 jobs and went to school.
Needs hardtailed
Any word on this bike? Does he still have it?
#11,940 at 3:15 PM on 12/06/18 – NJ
Oil in frame triumphs are the worst, he could just have gotten and older frame and been done with alot of problems
Cool bike
if you use a UV pen and UV flashlight, (you can get them cheap from banggood) you can write all over the bike and it is invisible to the naked eye – only the UV light will show what you wrote – comes in handy if you forget what you were working on if you leave the vehicle for a few days
"yeah if you can basically finish my bike for me, I'll be down the pub"…
At the end of the day, a swing arm frame is a swing arm frame. They never look clean like a rigid. You sit on the bike not in it. Been building and riding rigid bobbers and chops for over 50 years. To this day I can't build a swing arm bike. Maybe when I get older I keep telling myself.
handlebaas :p
my dad had a triumph chopper..
You're a good man!