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Early this summer I picked this bike up; it's in remarkable shape honestly and will only need a very mild restoration. Plans a super basic and simple, fix it, clean it and ride it. This thread will be the progress of that... progression.
First thing I've ran into is this... Are the bikes positive earth or negative? Seems as though this may not be the way it's suppose to be :|
When I got it the upper triple was busted and the front fork cover and headlight ear suffer damage. Luckily the forks are straight. The accident also caused one of the ears that holds the carb to the cylinder jug to break off. I am unsure how I am going to go about the repair thus yet. I've already purchased a few minor items like carb kit and a new upper tree. It's time to really get into it and clean it up for spring. I'm thinking this may be the bike I take down to the Thaw.
Thanks, I can't wait to actually ride it. I've been staring at it all summer. I've just been preoccupied with other bikes. Now that I've opened up thwe workbench I plan to try and have it ready pretty quickly... At least running before the end of the month.
I plan to do a pretty big stupid money pit build with the DT. I've been collecting parts since I bought it. I doubt I'll have it ready by the Thaw. If I do it will be my chariot.
Cool project, is that the same as teh Cub, I seem to remember the small single cylinder Triumph was a 200 Cub? Of course it has been 45 years since I saw one at the dealership and I had a friend in high school who had one, I think?
Cub was an all Triumph design and was a competitor to the BSA C15 (250cc). Once Triumph and BSA merged, they developed C15 replacements including the Victor 441 and C25 250.
The bike in this thread is a Triumph badged C25 for all intents and purposes and its ancestors were BSA's C series rather than the T20 Cub and earlier T15 Terrier.
All the above used to be abused and fitted with high compression pistons and hot cams and sweptback pipes and so on. What on earth were we all smoking back then? LOL
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