What Have You Being Doing With Your Non-triumph Today?

Well done, (so far) the green on the oil tank will be the shade the Bonnie will get if it ever decides a freshen up is required

 

It should be a nice when it's done. Green seems to be my favorite color, although this is my first green bike of more than a dozen that I've owned.

I believe there's a good concept of a wiring diagram in my head, but it's not on paper yet. Today I removed the plugs, raised the rear wheel, and went through the gears by hand and it seems to shift nice. While it was in 5th I turned the engine using the rear wheel and everything was smooth. Today I received an oil tank dip stick with a thermometer built in, a set of bar-end turn signals, and a solenoid-mounted starter button. The starter button eliminates the need for an electrical starter button - it simply pushes the solenoid contactor manually to close the circuit to operate the starter. The ignition key will be mounted in the same area, probably on the fuse box. In trying to minimize front to back wiring I'll likely also mount the regulator-rectifier on the fuse box. The fuse box will also contain the ignition module. I'm using a "Thunder Heart" standalone ignition system that gets timing from the crank angle sensor. It's fully programmable using a Windows PC, but also has a small rotary switch for changing ignition advance curves, which is probably all that's needed.

 

Just make sure the reg rec gets some cooling airflow otherwise the whole lot might melt

 

I thought about that. It will be mounted to the outside of the metal fuse box and exposed to plenty of air flow on the right side of the bike. I might also put some heat transfer paste between them to help transfer some of the heat to the fuse box itself. Same stuff used between high power amplifier transistors and their heat sink.

 

I was eating too many mince pies and quality street so went down the garage and made a TRIBSA door knocker (Triumph T140 piston and a BSA A65 Lightning conrod)



All ready to screw up to keep the postman entertained

 

Is that the big end knocking or the postman??!!
What a cracking job!!