Triumph build video.

[Motu]

http://www.webzeum.com/VintageFilms/...6/Default.aspx

31 minutes,so have a coffee or beer while you watch.If any of you young blokes wonderd what us old farts ever saw in old Triumphs,then this might give you a clue - no robots here,just skilled craftsmen doing their job,watch the guy trueing the wheel.Love how the gearbox goes together - first time I rebuild a pre unit Triumph gearbox it took me 3 tries and ended up with 3 gears.My wife built up her own Triumph boxes,which shows she knew her stuff.ET even makes an appearance,what a charming man.

It says 1958....I reckon the bike is a 1954 T100 - opinions?

[Warr]

A very interesting watch
Thanks for finding that. I had an AJS500 for a bit with the "Burman" gearbox. Was rather pleased to get that back together all working too!

[Blackbird]

You beauty Motu - just watched it all the way through and laughed my head off at the marketing. The tradesmen with ties were great too. Seriously good video for ex-Triumph owners though and a good comment on social history. I think your date is spot on . I know the young 'uns on the site are going to call me an anorak, but my 1955 model (which I didn't buy in 1955, I hasten to add ) differs in some small respects. It had the later "Eyebrow" tank badge - the stripes in the video were a legacy of the earlier pre-swing arm models. My Tiger also had a true Monobloc carb with the horizontal float bowl. I also noticed when they were assembling it that the front sprocket of the primary drive seemed to be held in place with a spacer. I think mine had a shock absorber with a hefty spring on it, but the memory is a bit hazy on this. I think the 1955 seat had a bit more pronounced rise for the pillion too.

There - that response ought to provoke a bit of ridicule from those who think that a GSX-R 1100 is ancient history.

Geoff

[Smokin]

That movie is 14 years older than me, but that was great, things sure have changed along the way and just to see some of those tradesmen working was a sight to behold.
The frame building took me by surprize too, I had never thought about how they brazed joints before they had oxy/acetylene.

Thanks for sharing mate.

[Motu]

Yes,the lack of engine sprocket cush drive was a puzzle,I thought they may of missed it just to make the filming go easier.But we were definatly watching the build of a T100 from start to finish,and it showed a cush drive clutch hub - maybe it didn't have the engine cush drive in that case,although I've never seen a generator Triumph without one.

The care over frame aligment was a surprise too....it didn't show in the finished product!

[Paul in NZ]

I've had that and others on DVD from Duke marketting for a while - why back in the day....

[nudemetalz]

That was awesome, Motu.
Nice to see Welly mentioned there.
The speed of the wheel spoke assembly was quite a watch.

This large-scale handbuilt assembly must be a dying if not dead art, what with robotic assemblies.

A joy to watch.

[kneescraper]

You OLD guys sure know what your talking about...those were the days when bikes were very simple!

[Blackbird]

You OLD guys sure know what your talking about...those were the days when bikes were very simple!

Hahaha - it was the only transport I had when at varsity and poor so it was a case of having to know it inside out in case it gave trouble.

[kneescraper]

Hahaha what a stud!! Reminds me of photos of my father on his bikes...you guys all had that slick hair style....kinda looks like the set of Heartbeat!

I can totally see what they were the bikes to have. Every bit of the bike was completed by man. Eye opening video Motu!

[Blackbird]

Despite being dressed in a green cardigan with football buttons (oh noooo...), an orange t shirt and suede shoes, I was still able to pull this girl from Glasgow at the 1969 Isle of Man TT. I was painfully shy at that stage and it still counts as one of life's highlights

[kneescraper]

Isle of Mann must have been awesome back in those days, well it still is..Ive always found that era interesting. Didn't seem to have all the hang ups that this modern life has...or so I've been told.

[erik]

Cheers for posting that, Motu, it was really interesting. It makes you appreciate the amount of work that goes into bikes. The stunts were amusing, you don't see stuff like that these days.

I've started downloading the BSA video from the same site:
http://www.webzeum.com/VintageFilms/...2/Default.aspx
( mms://69.64.171.16/WebZeum/Classic BSA Film Try 2.wmv for the video by itself in Windows Media player or mplayer)

I don't know what it's like yet... That last one was 275MB! If the BSA one is the same size, it'll take a while to download.
After a bit of searching I found the command-line version of mplayer was able to download and save the files.

As an interesting comparison, the link to this 1992 GSXR750 video was posted on the sportsbike.co.nz forum recently. It's shorter but shows some of the GSXR750 manufacturing.

[Brian d marge]

Eric , sorry how did you do that for Mplayer ??
using ubuntu , but I couldnt get that file to open

Stephen

[Ixion]

Very interesting. And not a torque wrench in sight!

I think those may have been competition engines they were assembling, the pistons look very high compression, and the cams decidedly cammy. I don't think competition engines had the shock absorber.Every dynamo Triumph I've seen had one. Old codgers decried alternators because you had to lose the shock absorber (which was actually a primitive slipper clutch!)

Quarter thou on the cranks and tenth on the bores? Hmmm. Maybe.

Interesting the wheels were trued the same way I did them - no DTI just a fingernail ! And two and a half minutes to fit a tyre. Not bad!

Interesting too that they made their own pistons ? I thought by then that the specialists like Hepolite had pretty much taken over .

I saw an 1953 EIP Vauxhall, and it was not later than 1954 when the tanks got the later badge. So, yes, 1953 or 1954.