Featured 1950 5t Rebuild

Agreed, looking forward to seeing progress

 

do you just have a shed full of these projects that youve accumulated over the years, or are blessed with a benevolent and eccentric uncle?

 

Just google south coast national motorcycle museum and your house comes up

 

One or two of these sprung hub 5T's are beginning to surface in the VMCC Cheshire Cats Section. The lovely softish motor will run all day.
Keep the pictures coming,I'm drooling already

 

Well, that's a bit of an arse......

 

Bummer, new rods as well.....

 

I will take your word for it don’t have a clue what I am looking at.
Great story as always though love seeing the progress.

 

jeez.

what about the crank journals?

 

Ha, there’s definitely been some “out of the box” thinking on those bodges, or should that be “out of their mind!”, lucky that parts for these engines are available and relatively cheap, I noticed it’s still rigid frame at 1950,( I have a 1947 T100), when did they go to rear suspension?

 

It’s little wonder that the British bike industry went down the pan with their glacial development program, I was looking at a 1938 T100 at the National motorcycle museum a few weeks ago, besides the front forks and a few other changes here and there my 1947 is the same bike!, going well into the 50’s with rigid frames is another example of the lack of investment and development, if you look at a 1992 Honda Fireblade and then a 2002 model for example they are totally different bikes!.

 

@darkman, I'm glad to see another of your riveting (no pun intended) build threads. Looks like this one could be a doozy. But what would your builds be without challenges... and you've definitely shown us that you're up to challenges. Looking forward to following along on this one!