A cool bike needs a cool rider

[belfastguzzi]

OK - is that a Daytona or a Bonneville?

 

I b'lieve it's one or t'other...Enquiring minds just gotta know...

 

Where's Martin?

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Single carb.....Tiger (?)

[belfastguzzi]

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What

on

earth

?

 

That's just not cool.

[Paul Minnaert]

who is bob dylan? should I know him?

[jrt]

who is bob dylan? should I know him?

 

Famous mechanic from the '60s. Descendant of some Welsh poet.

[belfastguzzi]

Famous mechanic from the '60s.  Descendant of some Welsh poet.

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Those pics are actually me.

Just joking about the Bob Dylan fella.

 

This is Bob Dylan:

 

[big J]

Those pics are actually me.

Just joking about the Bob Dylan fella.

 

This is Bob Dylan:

 

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My, you're lookin good, BFG.

The cosmetic surgery was obviously a success, then.

Must've been the ointment.

[belfastguzzi]

My, you're lookin good, BFG.

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That's Bob Dylan!

 

 

just 'cos it says BFG don't make it true!

[big J]

The Triumph 350 was called a 55 (cubic inches) in America.  It's a 3TA that he crashed.

 

mike

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Wasn't the 351 called the Twenty One cos 21 cu in is 350cc. It's unit construction, so it's not a 3TA,I think that designation stopped with pre-unit.

The unit model I think was the T90 if 350cc or T100 if 500cc.

So if it was reported as a 55 I'd guess it's a 500cc T100 Tiger. Model year- around 65-67(?)

BTW, the later twin carb models (Daytona's) were faster than a Gold Star and raced effectively against the 750cc KR Harleys.

[mike wilson]

Wasn't the 351 called the Twenty One cos 21 cu in is 350cc. It's unit construction, so it's not a 3TA,I  think that designation stopped with pre-unit.

The unit model I think was the T90 if 350cc or T100 if 500cc.

So if it was reported as a 55 I'd guess it's a 500cc T100 Tiger. Model year- around 65-67(?)

BTW, the later twin carb models (Daytona's) were faster than a Gold Star and raced effectively against the 750cc KR Harleys.

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Sorry, I was distracted during my mental arithmetic - you are right wrt capacity. The model designation was: 3T = pre unit 350, 5T = preunit 500, 3TA = unit 350, 5TA = unit 500. The T90 was a single cylinder machine, as were the T70 and T80. The T100 designation was taken over for the sports version of the twin.

 

Triumph had a very active publicity department, so the model range numbers tend to make little logical sense........

 

mike

[big J]

I had a 68 T90 350cc twin.

[helicopterjim R.I.P.]

The Triumph 350 was called a 55 (cubic inches) in America.  It's a 3TA that he crashed.

 

mike

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55 cubic inches equals 892 cc.

 

350 cc equals 21.4 cubic inches.

[Admin Jaap]

Jim, are those Imperial Cubic Inches?

[badmotogoozer]

Not that I know anything, but I was under the impression that the T100 was so named as it would do 100 mph out of the box, and the T120 Bonny would do 120 mph...

 

Rj

[helicopterjim R.I.P.]

Ryan! Are those Imperial mph?

[mark.gilmore]

Not that I know anything, but I was under the impression that the T100 was so named as it would do 100 mph out of the box, and the T120 Bonny would do 120 mph...

 

Rj

That would be correct