At first sight the engine looked in fairly good condition painted in heat proof black spray, with no apparent oil leaks. The engine also seemed to be devoid of those horrible marks and nicks left on cover joints when they have been more the

The bike was delivered to us as a rolling chassis plus 2 boxes of engine parts and frame fittings, the engine was in a total nut and bolt strip down and all was jumbled up. The first thing to do was to rebuild the engine . The cases were no

This particular triumph Bonneville was more or less a bit of a barn find since it was used for 52,000 miles and then layed up in the back of a shed in 1972 where it languished under an oily sheet. The shed was obviously dry and airy as when

Since the birth of the motorcycle the preferred way of joining the hub to the rim of the wheels are with wires called spokes that had a bend on one end to pass through a hole in the hub and a thread on the other end to pass through the cent