great article

I found this article really interesting and though that I should share.

http://designmind.frogdesign.com/blog/motorcycle-form-and-function-why-its-hard-to-live-with-an-italian-supermodel.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+frog-design-mind+%28design+mind%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

Solidworks almost finished

I have found some time to work on the solidworks model. I am almost finished with the motor and the frame is finished. I think it looks pretty cool.

Transmission Rebuilt

My buddy Paul got me a hook up on some Gardener-Westcott cover bolts for the motor. Which look really nice. Thank you very much Paul.

I have also rebuilt the Transmission. It was actually fairly simple and surprisingly it shifts through all the gears on the first assembly.

On to the Primary side.

Kibblewhite

After many hours of searching and comparing, I have decided on valves. I went with the Kibblewhite Black Diamond. I have been told by several people that they are the best. So with that advice I jumped. If all goes as planned she should be a clean running machine.

Progress report

It was pretty nice this weekend, so I thought was time to take the Triumph off it's stand and get a picture or two of it in the day light and on its wheels. As you can see most of the frame is put back together. I have my buddy Paul working on a front tire for me, but I am still up in the air for a seat and oil tank.

On the motor, I have the timing side and transmission rebuild. I have ordered valves from Kibblewhite Precision Machining Inc, and sometime soon I am going to order some pistons.

Cheers,

New transmission

One step closer to a roller

I finally found all the parts I needed to rebuild the front forks. This might have been the hardest part so far of the rebuild. The original forks that sat outside for 25 years were rusted to nothing. The only thing I could use off of them were the Dust Excluder Sleeve Nut. I have bought 3 set of forks off of ebay and none of them worked. Just a warning people will say anything to sell there stuff on ebay. I finally found a local guy who sold me a 68 triumph front fork and all is good.

I used the internal parts from the 68 forks and bought some new tubes from my Racing Norton's guy. Mike gave me the bottom members and finally we are assembled. I also bought some new handle bars.

next up the front wheel.