Six years ago tomorrow my Son brought home this Triumph from his buddy's uncles place in Oregon.
The original motor had been pulled and placed in a Rickman frame and pressed into a life of Vintage off road racing, it's still there, doing that.
Arrival 5-23-15
She sat and waited for attention for a couple years. My son came across a '72 750 motor that we went and got, wrestled into the frame and got running for a glorious hour or so until it seized up- still not sure why, plenty of oil, timed correctly and working on carburetor adjustments when it quit.
750 motor going in
After that motor died, she sat a while longer until I came across a recently rebuilt 1966 650 motor... for $500 we couldn't pass it up, the brief rides with the 750 motor were very very fun. Even with one of the least favorite years of Triumph production ('71 was the intro of the oil in frame design, done by aeronautical engineers, should have stuck with the motorcycle chaps!) the handling and feel were wonderful in a 7/10s way.
Not so much a racer as a fun cruiser. With routes of there and back again on the same roads so you can pick up whatever shook off 1st time through.
Aaron came home from LA for Mother's day weekend this year (such a good guy!) and he managed to get the new repop OEM stye fenders fitted and drilled.
I dropped off the tank, side covers, chain guard and new fenders off to paint yesterday, so maybe it's really Bonnie 2.1 or something...
Bonnie striped of her furnishings:
While she's apart this time she gets a new wire harness as the OEM harness is very hacked up, a new solid state voltage regulator and switch her from Positive Earth to negative earth like the rest of the world did a while ago.
I do understand electrons don't care which way they flow, but the positive ground to negative ground system is an easy change and feels more normal, no more wiring the charger in a backwards way.
More details and photos to come...