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Re: Pre war Norton top girder fork yoke

Mhh, for that price, 350 quid, the seller could have made the proper bolts and grease nipple to go with it!!

Cheers,

Lex

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Re: Pre war Norton top girder fork yoke

Hi Ian,

Had this picture for quite a few years and thought it looks an ace well proportioned bike with the most important right lines, you know what i mean, something that was factory built and not out of a back street shed. The picture is Rex McCandless's bike he built during the war years. Only if he had known what he had started with the Triton craze that followed.
Rex-Mc-Candless-s-1939-Triton-002-2

Re: Pre war Norton top girder fork yoke

Must be a 39/40 Speedtwin or Tiger 100 engine.....Indeed the first Triton! Very nice project!

Ron

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Re: Pre war Norton top girder fork yoke

Tim, Ah so you've gone public with this now then have you!? I had the pleasure of spending a few hours with Rex about twenty years ago when the VOC visited his place, he was living in a converted railway station south of Belfast and his main interest was making wine from anything he could pick locally. The old engine shed at the station was stacked with plastic 25ltr. drums of the stuff and we made a good effort to reduce his stock. My Vin has never gone as fast as it did on the way back to the digs. Rex was a great host with loads of tales to tell, he must have kissed the Blarney stone many times, but unfortunately he had given up with bikes and engineering so there was nothing of interest in his workshop. He had known many of the old time racers, Freddie Dixon, Stanley Woods, and of course all the Norton factory guys with his involvement with the Featherbed. When asked about any of these famous types he would say "Ah yes he was a gentleman, a lovely fella" and then go into a character assasination and tales of how they had fallen out. We were having a dinner in the evening with Rex as guest of honour, and to everyone's surprise he arrived with a friend, no less than Stanly Woods himself. Stanley was a very different type to Rex, unassuming and modest, he really was a gentleman and a lovely fella. A day to remember.

Re: Pre war Norton top girder fork yoke

Just looking at the bike again. They look like Tiger 100 silencers? Ron

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Re: Pre war Norton top girder fork yoke

Ron Pier
Must be a 39/40 Speedtwin or Tiger 100 engine.....Indeed the first Triton! Very nice project!

Ron
Your right Ron a prewar speed twin engine. These engines are too expensive for my project so i am using 6T alternator crankcases these look the same without the dynamo at the front. I have altered the cases where the K2F mag would have been and fitted a mag dyno as the early speed twin. Mag dyno is a MO1 which i have converted to a 180 degree twin. Mag will sit on the engine plates when i get them back from the laser cutters.
Silencers i am not sure, but didn't Triumph make some reverse cone mega's with a detachable end like these in the picture.

Tony, i wish i had been with you on that occasion, but not on the back of your Vin on the way home, i would have just walked:wink: .

Re: Pre war Norton top girder fork yoke

Those silencers with the removable ends were from the Triumph race kit I believe...A complete kit to spec. the bike for track racing...Then again they might be pre war Tiger 100 silencers...

The bike certainly has a nice line to it...and I do like those pie crust tanks..I'm currently making the second version of a 'wrap around' oil tank for my sprinter, another feature I like on those pre war bikes....Ian

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Re: Pre war Norton top girder fork yoke

Tim, Too far to walk, it was about 25 miles to the B&B, wouldn't have got there in time for the piss up, sorry, evening dinner, just dialled in the auto pilot, all the enclosed Vins have this feature. Re. the silencers I think the first T100s did have the megga type silencers with removable ends. Looking forward to seeing the new Triton.

Re: Pre war Norton top girder fork yoke

Mine was a 38 Speedtwin. Here is a Tiger 100 and Armours make the silencers. Ron
Triumph-1939-Tiger-2705-1
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