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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 (?)

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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:

 

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Those pics are actually me.

Just joking about the Bob Dylan fella.

 

This is Bob Dylan:

 

bfg1.jpg

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My, you're lookin good, BFG.

The cosmetic surgery was obviously a success, then.

Must've been the ointment.

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My, you're lookin good, BFG.

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That's Bob Dylan!

 

 

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

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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.

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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.

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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

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