Featured Completed My Restoration Of A '75 T160

Lovely job there Sullivs. The way this coronavirus is going, by the time you've finished it you probably still won't be able to ride it.

 

Really like this, bike for life!

 

I love how the polished metal and chrome came out.

 

excellent work, I hope mine is fairly similar

 

When i was a teenager I watched in awe as the bikers at my local youth club arrived on triumph's of every kind but the Trident always looked and sounded the best, great work! thank you for keeping these wonderful bikes on the road!
she is on her way to being a great bike!

 

When i was a teenager I watched in awe as the bikers at my local youth club arrived on triumph's of every kind but the Trident always looked and sounded the best, great work! thank you for keeping these wonderful bikes on the road!
she is on her way to being a great bike!

 

If you have anymore pictures of the really dirty stuff during the restoration, I'd love to see those as well.

 

Of course! I have never had a proper, clean garage with a cement floor when I have worked on bikes and cars, so my pictures of their repairs have been pretty comical. The last motorcycle I resurrected from a blown head gasket was no exception. I had to work on it in a friend's rented garage at her apartment. It had power, fortunately, so I bought some of those clip lights with the aluminum reflectors. I had to make a work space in the midst of her furniture, which worked fine. Then it rained and the water came into the garage, so we got a dozen wooden pallets to elevate all of the belongings in the garage. It was quite maddening.

I'll be doing the same thing for my '98 Daytona once it arrives. I have a rented storage place packed with yet more furniture and no power this time, so I will work on either battery lights or in daylight hours. Fingers crossed, this bike will only need a water pump at the worst. I'll take pictures of my sad workspace. Ha ha.

Incidentally, when I remove a carburetor from a bike in a parking lot, I wrap the orifices on the exposed engine. with industrial shrink wrap to keep rain and blown dust out. So far that has helped with jobs that span a week or more. Love that shrink wrap.

 

I restored a T160 too......but you would probably hate mine.

 

Hi Steve yes i do it really was a restoration project as it belonged to a very good friend who sadly passed away a few years back and his family gave it to me, it had been sitting in his flat for the last thirty odd years after he got rear ended and lost his nerve anyway here are a few pics.

Before.


Rebuild.

 

A Beautiful job Sir!

 

Hey Sullivs - superb job on the Trident. If you've got any parts left over that you might want to part with (the original AD silencers, for example ) just let me know! I have a T160 in exactly that colour scheme. It's in a disassembled state awaiting the resto/rebuild it so richly deserves. One day .............

 

Hi Sullivs. I'll pm you regarding the parts. Yep, when I eventually get all my sh!t together; get my workshop sorted and get all my bikes out of the various places of storage then I'll try to get some pictures and post them. That may, however, be some time yet.

Your experience and knowledge might be an invaluable resource so I may very well hold you to that offer of sharing!

Adie

 

Sweet!