A few Bonnie updates

Fitted Lsl Bars, Rizoma mirrors over the winter which has given me the riding position I was looking for, had to shorten the bars by 25mm each side though as just too wide. The mirrors was pure cosmetic, I coudn't stand the Mickey Mouse ears chrome ones any longer!!!

Whilst I was at it I removed the AIS and fitted the New Bonneville plugs and resistor which really cleans up the cylinder head as well as making it possible to remove the plugs with out lifting the tank, the real bonus ball though is it's stopped back popping through the exhaust now when i shut the throttle off.

 

SCMC St Fillians Gathering 22/09/2013

The odd shower couldn't put a dampener on the SCMC meet up at St Fillians on the banks of Loch Earn, a good turn out of classic bikes ; a cracking ride in some beautiful countryside what more could you want?

Triumph Flatrack by Mule

Easy to see why the Bonnie is a customizers dream, it allows the owner, builder to make so many styles out of the same bike, one week you can have a flat tracker the next a cafe racer all made with the same base bike.
Anyway here's a couple of flat trackers that just look so right they could have come straight from the Triumph factory.

Whats not to like ?

My Bonneville

Few pictures of my Bonneville after I changed a few things during the winter:

Major changes are:
Thruxton tank
Arrow 2 into 2 exhaust system
Solo Seat
LSL Footrests
Flat Bars
Dart Screen
I have also changed a few other bits an pieces but next winter will see some major modifications

Triumph Quadrant

Someone said time flies when your having fun, unfortunately this is also true when your not.......
It's nearly two months since my last blog post, the only excuses I can muster are the weather has been at best crap and now I am working full time I lack the motivation to sit at a computer in the evenings.
Anyway one highlight during the rainy season (I am sure the next jump in human evolution will be that we all become water proof) was the lanark classic Bike Show, I didn't take many photos as once again the rain was lashing down which put a huge dampener on the event and kept attendance down but this Triumph Quadrant took my eye, I know nothing about other than the crankcases where machined out of solid billet but it does look like a proper factory special, I have also enclosed an image of a Trident for you to compare.

Bonneville In The Snow

Nice Bonneville in the snow, would not be mine though!i think I am getting far too precious about my bikes, need to start riding them more and looking at them less........

 

Doctor Who rides a Bonny

Hey if it's good enough for a time lord then it's good enough for me!!!

Anyone know where I can get one of them anti gravity things though?

 

Check Out The Craftsmanship

This is a stunning Bonnie, the more you look at tit the more you can tell how much time has been spent on attention to detail, a beautiful blend of old and new.
For more info check out return of the cafe racer

Free Spirit

Check out these custom Triumphs from Free Spirit

Summer Days

I Found this image at cafe racer culture, roll on summer!

Whats not too like!

Another couple of lovely's

Happy New Year

Happy New Year!

 And what better way to start with a couple of images of a cool T120 Bobber, more of which can be seen on Southsiders M/c site.

Hope 2013 is good to you , keep it rubber side folks!

Modern Triton

Cracking mixture of old and new in this Triton, would put a smile on any ones face when they lifted the garage door. Also worth noting this bike is ridden whatever the weather, makes me feel a little embarrassed about sticking mine away for the winter, but I will get over it!

Throttle Bodies

The adaptors finally turned up so that the throttle bodies could be balanced on the Tiger, whilst in there I thought it would be a good idea to fit the new ICAV gasket that I had and along with the new vacuum tubes that should be all air leaks taken care of. To say the throttle bodies where along way out would be an understatement the bike was trying to backfire through the middle cylinder and they wasn't even on the gauges they where that far out Baz an Gav did an awesome job of tuning them! it's like a totally different bike just sits there ticking over quietly, no hunting, no stalling and so fucking smooth it's unreal!
I had read somewhere that balancing the throttle bodies was the best thing you can do to a Tiger and the author of that pearl of wisdom was not wrong, I am not exaggerating it's totally transformed her!
As always though nothing can ever go smoothly and one of the fuel pump fittings snapped so I had to order a couple of these in as one leaked when disconnected and sod's law states that the one that broke was not the leaky one, so whilst the pump was out a new filter was fitted, you should have seen the shite that come out of the old one and the crud that was in the bottom of the tank! can't be rust as it's plastic so the only place it could have come from is the petrol pumps!
Anyway that's the last piece of the puzzle and finally she runs like she was designed too, all the other things I had done to her made small but significant improvements but having got the throttle bodies balanced has totally transformed the old girl.

LSL Goodies

Purchased a set of these for the Bonnie, have to say the quality is nothing short of  outstanding, honestly the photos don't do them justice!

 

Thruxton Tank

Sale of the century this one! I could not believe my luck when I stumbled across this tank. It's a Brand new never fitted Thruxton tank mine for a measly sum so now my Bonny will have the proper tank badges instead of decals.

Nice Triton

Can't remember where I found this but I believe it's in Australia, would look nicer in my drive way though!