Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Triumph Thunderbird 1600

Stainless Steel goodies for the Big T'Bird

 LUGGAGE RACK




 GRABRAIL


 SADDLEBAG SUPPORTS to fit with OEM sissybar

 SADDLEBAG SUPPORTS


Thursday, November 17, 2011

BSA Chopper


This was my first Chopper circa 1975, it was based on a BSA A10 Plunger frame model.

The frame was square molded as seemed to be the fashion of the day, it had a twisted steel sissybar, extended and chromed girders of a unknown bike, Z bars and twin spots plus the compulsory iron cross mirror!

Saturday, September 3, 2011

Harley Trike outside the Harley factory

Our Trip in 2003 on my Pan head Trike From NZ to LA and on to Milwaukee for the 100th birthday bash. I had to take the old girl to the factory! 


Kawasaki Z1300 Trike

My Z1300 6 CylinderTrike, it's been around since 2000
and has just been repainted for this year.







Triumph Thunderbird accessories

A Rack and a Grabrail for the Thunderbird and Sport







Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Triumph 650 FlatTracker

This is my 650 that I bought its a bitza with 70's motor so rather than restore it I built a Tracker, a style that I have always liked but never got around to building.





Maybe what it could have been? I don't think so!





Firstly the bike gets its Standard bits removed




Found a Mustang Tank, but it didn't sit right


Then bits get made, this build needed the rear sub-frame to be shortened, Hinckley Bonneville Tail light keeps a bit of Triumph on the bike..and I liked the Squat looking Suzuki tank






Front forks were changed for a set off a jap bike,
the wheels came from an off road bike, but had nice alloy rims, the wheel are about half the weight of the stock drums






Swing arm and rear wheel fitted together




The scabby black pipes had to go, and a set of Stainless were made at the local tube fab company to my patterns, Then when they came back I had to cut to length, weld on mounting tabs and polish all the clamp marks out which took a morning






A pile of bits to go and get powder coated, the rear axle plates swing arm were adapted from another Jap donor.




In the mean time I got busy with the paint gun, luckily the weather was hot so I managed to get it done in in a short time

Starting to go back together at last, Front wheel spaced up to fit forks, and rear wheel also aligned. I had to build an inboard spacer to get the chain to run true, but painted black it looks a bit like a brake drum.






Triumphs with their left hand brake set up, meant I had to convert the drum to cable, I was going to go with a cross over shaft and rods, but this seemed a cleaner option.






From the photos you can't tell how long I have spent on the lathe and how many helicoils the motor needed!





Great thing about Brits is the lack of wiring, a boyer keeps the ignition clean, a podtronics black box sorts out the charging and a Hella hi/low/horn switch controls the lights.




I know its a bright paint job but its what I had left in the shed and I was broke from all the bits I had to buy
















So now its out to enjoy whats left of the summer, hopefully the motor will be OK, thats the only item that is still unknown, maybe it will get pulled down during the winter?