Dappled Shade: the motorcycle is running well and is looking good. Let’s see if we can get a riding season without any mechanical of electrical gremlin’s!
June 20, 2016
Run in the Sun
June 19, 2016
Mad Dogs?
Midsummer Moto- a warming June Sunday morning saw a splendid 80 Mike round trip to the Wisconsin state line. A new leafy backroad through weekend-quiet commercial districts and horse farms was mapped. Pancakes ‘n’ coffee in Zion and back through the shady turns of Sherudan Road.
June 18, 2016
I give this my full support
The Other Triumph – a lingerie manufacturer that has been making intimate apparel since the 1880’s used a nice ribbon-like logo with crowning motif. Our faithful motorcycle makers marque has been using a swooshing leg’d R for decades. A new bra and pantie maker jump on the latters look. Adore Me – complete with swoosh… Trademark infringement?
June 17, 2016
Call Me!
“It’s for you hoo!” Or so they said back in the eighties when selling off British Telecom. Well let’s take the Way Back machine a little further to enjoy a big tire’d Triumph flat tracker a la Gary Nixon. “appelle-moi mon cherie!”
June 13, 2016
Go! skate!
Skateboard Art – these offer great ‘canvases’ for graffiti or screenprint Art. This example by Kyle Yarrington from Maryland is a hand drawn Triumph motor with a scribbled upon Union Jack-like backdrop. His Etsy store name is ZenAngel13.
June 12, 2016
Art
Girl on a Moto – by Claude Monet. Discovered in a dusty store room behind the artists house at Giverny. Le Thruxton Rouge is the title written on the back…
June 11, 2016
Open heart surgery…
Ok, so I bit the bullet and opened up the engine. Trying to accomplish this without the guts spilling out. Well the cam pinion gears were synchronized at top dead center, and the valves are now snug with a smidgen of clearance, well ten thou clearance. I could use a fresh splined gear lever spindle…
June 10, 2016
Jade
Mint Julep – bourbon headed beauty zooming across some foothill highway upon a sweet looking Bonnie.
Classic lines with formal elegance, this a machine to enjoy looking at and, I’m sure, riding.
June 9, 2016
Sit on it!
Richie Cunningham takes Fonzies Moto for a spin in Arnold’s Diner.
Then again through the front door of his parents, Howard & Marion’s, house. Fonz wears his leather jacket over his dressing gown.
June 8, 2016
Ayyy!
Arthur Fonzarelli- aka The Fonz. TV’s Happy Days’ King of Cool, riding into the scene on his Triumph TR5 and collar-up leather jacket. Greasy slick back hair and a fist bump to turn on the jukebox or start a car. 50’s Anericana when is was cool to reminisce during the doldrum 70’s – look up American Graffiti.
Richie Cunningham looks on in his ever bemused attitude.
Triumph-amundo
June 7, 2016
I keep forgetting restoration is 99% frustration.
I need to contemplate tranquility – a zen peace of mind like a content fox. The Cub is taking a major step back. It is decided to take the whole engine out back to the bench and strip it down. Something major isn’t jiving…
June 6, 2016
Valve Job
Well, I think I may have worked out the reason for the Cub woes: the valve retaining collar was of a type with a high rim which interfered with the rocker arm action. I dug out another type which provides excellent clearance. Top photos show two types. Fitted valves back in all looking tickety boo.
June 5, 2016
Bob’s Pantry & Deli
Ice cold coke at a regular stop-off on the North Shore. Nice weather with a fresh breath off the lake and hot sun. A short 50 mile jaunt with plenty of other riders out enjoying the roads.
June 4, 2016
It’s Alive! Not!
Not a peep. No bark, non-ignition. Looked at valve timing, ignition set-up; workshop manual settings were followed … And still no chirp. Here it sits in Deans garage with big brother Bonneville sitting nearby.
I took the cylinder head off and perhaps the valve seats have exceeded recess allowance so the rocker arms bind against the valve spring collar perhaps keeping a peep of valve open and hence zero cylinder compression…
June 3, 2016
It stands to reason
Silly Old Moo – cockney mysogynistical racially bigoted homophobic anti-Semite, anti-Catholic, anti-Irish and West Ham supporter Alf Garnett pilots chair bound long suffering wife Else and pillion perched friend Min in this wartime outfit (BSA M20). Voicing an ugly post war psyche of Britain he ranted against all around him. However Else could cut him down with a curt response or withering glare as he spiraled into a tirade.
Warren Mitchell 1926-2015
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