Triumph (1972) know it all's attn :-)

[Motu]

hey just want to pop in and say to you guys thanks for the help/info, but it looks like the guy missed out on it ta anyway.

Don't interupt please,there is a discussion going on here....

[oldrider]

As an example of how much interchangability there is in Triumphs,check out this one.This is my wife,as a 20 something,with the 1951 T100 she built largely by herself,looks pretty original eh?

That's a Tiger 100 engine alright,and I think this was the test ride of the new cast iron top end she fitted - the alloy barrel and head had seen too much abuse,damaged threads and distorted surfaces,so this is a late 5T iron head,with ports bigger than the alloy Tiger,rebored with new plus 20 pistons.It's housed in a chromed 6T Thunderbird frame,has the large hole in the seat tube for the SU carb,and it has an SU carb too - one of the few things she let me do was fit an SU from a Mini to it,easy starting,good idle and 100mpg.Some sort of gearbox,they are all the same,good sprung hub,rear guard is a BSA Goldflash,sprung seats,leather covers by herself.The front forks are 1971 BSA Starfire,the front wheel 3TA and the front guard from a bathtub 21.Siamese pipes with a Sportster muffler.In the lounge was a Speedtwin I was building,58 motor with a 71 Tiger crank,E3134 cams,8.5:1 slipper pistons,twin carbs,in a 58 duplex frame with cut down seat tubes,it had raked yokes and I laced an 18in rim to a 7in Daytona twin leading shoe front brake.This bike was being built to pull a chair.

You could fit almost anything together...get it right,get it wrong - it was a shit load of fun.But whoever ended up with either bike would of had a puzzle trying to find out what was what.

Bugger the bike, nice missus Motu. Cheers John.

[Jackrat]

Just to cheer you up - it was probably an ex gang bike (61,the bike theives) and the only legal part of the bike was the numbers,they stole a Bonny (someone you knew most likely) and put the parts into your TR6R.If they ever dredge the Manukau they could make a breakwater out of stolen bike frames.

You would have to say that huh.
Ahh well the 5T in the 3T frame wif the GT 250 front end had no such history,I know cause I done did it.