THE ROAD TO ANDY’S SPECTACULAR supercharged pre-unit Triton started in a ditch in the grounds of a ramshackle manor house near Milton Keynes. “We were clearing the ditches and I found a motorcycle frame lying in one of them,” he explains. “I pulled it out and realised it was from an old BSA.
“My friend asked what I was going to do with an old pile of junk. The frame rails were rotted but had a few good bits still, including a near-mint rear mudguard, good oil tank, and toolbox. The rim was loose on the hub as all the spokes were gone. Then I spotted the kink in the bottom frame rail. Another friend came by and said, ‘You could build a Gold Star out of that’ and also asked what I was going to do with it. I said that with a bit of luck, I fancy swapping it for a Norton Featherbed. He replied, ‘As it happens, I’ve got an old Norton Featherbed frame’. I’d always wanted to build a Triton, so we did the swap and that’s where the Triton began.
“It wasn’t a quick
