Assembly begins
The decision I made to assemble what I had, rather than flail blindly around trying to create what I lusted after – Triumph’s TR5A/C or the similar ISDT type machines – has eased things slightly.
First of all, what I will have will be a motorcycle in a large lump and from that point, some direction will be clear. If I’m honest, I didn’t think I was going to have as many issues with a Triumph rebuild as I’m having – after all, I’m familiar with the model, I’m not overly concerned with originality and parts for Meriden twins are not that scarce or even ridiculously expensive. Nor did the factory change the spec too much over the model’s life and as long as note is taken of when the threads changed to unified from cycle and Whitworth lots of things are interchangeable…
One of the problems is of memory – things I’d convinced myself were in the boxes of bits making up this project aren’t and obviously never were, while other things I knew were there because I actually have a photograph of them laid out, have mysteriously vanished, or in the case of the fork sliders, one has gone, while
