Mike Stratton Sends in this beauty of a restoration. I especially appreciate the "before and after" style of the pics. Very nice resto. When I was a younger (and lighter) lad I seriously lusted after one of these.
Mike writes:
Hey I stumbled across your site and really liked it! Thanks for your work on it! Here is my 1978 DT175E That I restored. Hopefully you will like it enough to put the pics on your site! (Bragging rights for me to my friends!) Anyway Thanks again.
My pleasure Mike. Brag away!
Jon sends in his former Triton.
He writes:
Built this a few years back - now sold and the new owner put it back to a 'standard' Triton, you know, Gold Star pipes and plain old 2 seater with a hump and he scrapped the fairing - oh well...
Cheers
Jon
(an Englishman living in Australia)
I'd have to see it now but it seems to me that this would be hard to improve on. If you know the new owner ask him to send in a current picture just for fun. Cheers!
I just got in and I'm exhausted from a fantastic week of 2-stroking in the Carolina / Tennessee mountains around Deals Gap. Outstanding week of riding and fun. More to follow. Please stay tuned!
This in from Dogtown Cycles. They write:
A rare T120RV, a 5 speed Bonneville from 1971 with matching engine and frame numbers. The T120RV was released in the US in 1972, to permit Triumph to use them in American Motorcycle Association production-based racing. But a few were imported in late model year 1971. In order to race, all bikes had to be made and sold to the public in the same basic form as they would be raced. To meet this requirement Triumph had to produce and sell 200 of them before they qualified.
Please see the link: HERE
Please stop by and wish him well. I've really enjoyed visiting his site and he could definitely use some encouragement.
And not to mention those sick custom billet track-stands!! I mean Damm!
A good friend of mine is selling his fantastic Kawasaki KZ900. It's located in Jacksonville, Florida. I've ridden it and it's ridiculously fun and fast. Recently rebuilt engine and a serious looker. Bike just never gets ridden so he's selling. I would definitely buy it myself but I can't offer him nearly what it's worth. If you're interested let me know and I'll put you in touch.
And for the record, No I've never done this before and I only do it for people that I've known for 30 years or longer so please don't get after me to list your bike unless you're one of those dozen or so people.. Peace.
Riding into History Show and I had the wrong Camera... Brough Superior. Arial Square Four. Vincent. Triumph
Next few days will be some of the better posts from the local Riding Into History Motorcycle Concourse in St Augustine Florida. Sadly, I packed the wrong lower resolution camera so my pics are not as sharp as I'd usually hope for. A little post processing seems to have given them some usefulness though. Here's some of the first pics I snapped. I was an perfect day and an outstanding event.
FYI: If you want to see the whole album go to the "Links to full albums" page at the top of this blog and there are links to this album as well as most of the rest of my pics. Enjoy!
