What does 'Fully Restored' mean?

[Voltaire]

I restored a basket case Triumph bought in tea chests in the early 90's in London....spent many hours in the conservatory filing, sanding, polishing.....got an age related plate.....rode it to the 1992 TT.....shipped it home and the bloody thing seized on me coming back from Puke in 1997...and I re-stored it back into the tea chests.....
not really restored...as the original tea chests were Indian and the current ones are Kenyan.

[Paul in NZ]

I restored a basket case Triumph bought in tea chests in the early 90's in London....spent many hours in the conservatory filing, sanding, polishing.....got an age related plate.....rode it to the 1992 TT.....shipped it home and the bloody thing seized on me coming back from Puke in 1997...and I re-stored it back into the tea chests.....
not really restored...as the original tea chests were Indian and the current ones are Kenyan.

Now thats funny.... really funny! I snorted a carrot out my nose - which is odd 'cos we have not eaten carrots for days......

[Paul in NZ]

You've lost me completely there Avgas....

Your memory needs a factory restoration ;-)

[toycollector10]

Your memory needs a factory restoration ;-)

My wife would prefer me to be blueprinted, that is, "restored to requirements in original design".

[Paul in NZ]

My wife would prefer me to be blueprinted, that is, "restored to requirements in original design".

Vicki was opting for an improved version of me.... maybe a bigger bore or longer stroke with a lighter chassis....

[Voltaire]

Vicki was opting for an improved version of me.... maybe a bigger bore or longer stroke with a lighter chassis....

...with longer duration and double pumpers?...as in cams and carbs...

[toycollector10]

This is lots more fun than baiting Beyond.....

[Dodgyiti]

...with longer duration and double pumpers?...as in cams and carbs...

Yep, a good tickle and he's away

Restoration blah!

Poor Volty's Triumph, at least the Indian tea chests were part of the Commonwealth. Now you have gone and dunked it in non HM approved tea like a little metal biscuit

[Voltaire]

Poor Volty's Triumph, at least the Indian tea chests were part of the Commonwealth. Now you have gone and dunked it in non HM approved tea like a little metal biscuit

What do you 're store' Guzzi parts in....? A Biscotti tin?

...oh and Kenya are in the Commonwealth....

[prvt parts]

Speaking of the British Bike Industry. I wound up in Wellington in early 1973. I looked at the Triumph model which is the topic of this post, It might have been the exact same bike. I couldn't afford a 650cc so was looking at the 500cc. On the shop floor of the bike dealers up from Manners Mall, or Manners Street, as it was then known.

It had a one cent piece sized drop of oil under it. Not good!

Then I walked up to the top of Cuba Street to the Honda dealer and rode out on a brand spanking new CB250.

What a blast. I wrung it's nuts off for about 5 years and it didn't break. Red lined +for four or five times a day. Ya couldn't kill it with an axe.

One of these



Try treating a Triumph twin like that, it would be dead in 6 months.

Ya gotta laugh!

yeah ! but some people have no class aye !

[toycollector10]

yeah ! but some people have no class aye !

This Brit V's Japper debate has been going on since about 1963 so post up a picture of your bike (s), the one(s) you own, like I have, or shut the hell up. It's boring!

Find one of your mates who's ever ridden a Kawa Z1 and ask him what he thought of it!

Better still, I'll go up against your bloody gasping old Norton any day of the week on my CB750 or Zed.

[prvt parts]

This Brit V's Japper debate has been going on since about 1963 so post up a picture of your bike (s), the one(s) you own, like I have, or shut the hell up. It's boring!

Find one of your mates who's ever ridden a Kawa Z1 and ask him what he thought of it!

Better still, I'll go up against your bloody gasping old Norton any day of the week on my CB750 or Zed.

Oh dear .If you don't like debate why go on about 5 cent piece oil leaks and stuff, it may have been planted there anyway. Someone has to stick up for the real classics !

[Voltaire]

Oh dear .If you don't like debate why go on about 5 cent piece oil leaks and stuff, it may have been planted there anyway. Someone has to stick up for the real classics !

.....looks like he too de bait.....:

[toycollector10]

It had a one cent piece sized drop of oil under it. Not good!

and

Try treating a Triumph twin like that, it would be dead in 6 months.

In the light of day it would appear that it was in fact me who kicked it all off.

I apologize. Each to their own should be the motto here.

[Paul in NZ]

I apologize. Each to their own should be the motto here.

Quite true... Fact is - our needs as motorcyclists are all very different so we all appreciate different attributes of certain bikes. MANY Brit bikes are nowhere as bad as some would have you believe and MANY Japanese bikes certainly do have class and breeding but its the exceptions that get thrown about ;-)

The whole thing bored me then and it bores me now - I have total respect for anyone willing to risk life and limb by throwing a leg over a two wheeler and even more respect for those still riding the old bikes, it takes extra effort to keep them churning...

What I dislike is the constant rewriting of history for commercial gain...