Featured Not A Triumph But...

Just dragged this out and fired it up, not been used since October.
I bought this 650 lightning a few years ago , it was a bit tatty but the engine was ok ...all that was required was a new clutch.
The cycle parts were not so good and took me about a year to get to a reasonable standard.
Good fun to ride through,loads of vibration but handling is surprising..nimble and positive for a bike made in 1966.
Then there's the sound, could only be a British 360 degree twin, the modern stuff is just not the same....no matter how they try to replicate it.
I have done a couple of 200 plus runs on it and got home knackered!
As for the tank badge.....pure nostalgia!

 

Thanks for letting me know, I'll have a look. I wonder if they leak oil as well!

 

Yes, I sold my old 1973 T120, could hardly give it away...nobody seemed to want the oil in frame models, different now and I wish I still had it,trouble is finding space to put them.

 

Yes, I'm only a couple of miles away from mudeford, better than Poole, too busy there now.
Not sure about the churchill arms, is that the one near fordingbridge?

 

Oh yes I know it,didn't know they had a bike night there though . Which night?