Featured Out With The Old In With New

Hi there!
Welcome to the forum!
All the best with your projects!

 

Welcome? He's been here for years.
Pity about the old bike, was coming on nicely but good luck with the new project.

 

Watching with great interest.

 

Looks like quite an elegant motorcycle. It’ll be interesting to see what’s to be done. Good luck with the refurb.

 

It’s the bike I hankered after when they were ‘in’. I probably couldn’t have handled it though.

 

look forward to seeing what you do with it. sure it'll be smart as your old bike was cool

 

Looks interesting mate. Keep,us posted

 

The old trophy looks to good to chop up I'd be tempted to get it back to fully original as it left the factory to many of our older bikes are lost to customisation that's just my opinion can't really talk with my firestorm and it's paint but I like original manufacturers spend millions in development and we take bits off add bits and wonder why it doesn't run well or doesn't handle well
Quadumph make it mint and buy a bobber

 

I agree to an extent but I would go down the road of buying a bitsa a frame from here and engine from there etc rather than chop a reasonable bike especially looking at your last project the trophy will be far from a comfortable tourer it is now but as I said before that's me and when you come to pass it on what is your ideal is not someone else's where as you will always have an audience for a mint standard machine that's what I want to do with my firestorm except the paint scheme I want it to be the best it can be now I have the Tiger I can take my time and do it properly and not have to rush to get it back on the road but it will be going back on the road as it is a fun ride and plus another reason to keep it my Mrs bought it for my 50th so I have had it 11 years and I can still manage to get my leg over

 

Beats the flimsy plastic brittle things that they usually use if not standard the bike possibly had a previous owner that was an engineer and had use of a lathe or similar that's also why the bike looks like it's been fairly looked after for it's age

 

Picked up a crashed, year 2000 one of these... even now, still wince looking at the, (well, no more kids then, dent in the tank !!) .. ooouurgh !!!!
Forks snapped clean off, but she's dead straight, framewise ... makes me wonder by the thickness of the tubing, if, like cars of today.. they could be built to crumble ?
As the rear of the frame is bolt-on, it's goodbye, and a nice light one with normal ole twin shocks will be the go, and a bit lower ... sorta to end up semi flat-tracker look. Shave the bracketry on the frame and the 70's slimeline tanks fit ... and a magneto from V4 american outboard takes care of electrics ... voila !!!
These engines are a cracker, tough and grunty, I've only seen one blown, early on ... Triumph took it back and shipped a new one out because they were keen to know what had caused it ?
Yeah .. go for it, Quad ??