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Mike Grage, Customer and Technical Support at The Bonneville Shop and British Iron. As any seasoned rider knows the easiest modifications a person can make to their motorcycle to increase acceleration or top speed is changing the tooth count on your sprockets. They also wear out and have the potential to cause damage when they
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A Guide to Motorcycle Basket Case Dave Porter, Technical and Customer Support at The Bonneville Shop The opportunity to acquire a purportedly “complete motorcycle basket case” vintage bike project arises, and with it comes dreams of the finished project. The allure of seven tubs of parts, an engine in a complete state of disassembly,
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Lacing a Cross 3 Pattern Rear Disc Wheel A note about Lacing a Cross 3 Pattern Rear Disc Wheel: Your new rim may not lace up in the same pattern of your existing rim. For example, the Triumph disc rear from the factory used a couple of different dimple patterns of their rims, some used
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Hinckley Triumph Maintenance and Restoration Part 3: Resurrecting A Barn Find Hinckley By Mike Grage, Technical and Customer Support at The Bonneville Shop and British Iron. Pre-Ride Inspection In part one of this blog series, of Hinckley Triumph maintenance and restoration we pulled our bike out from wherever it was sitting and checked to see
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Part 2: Resurrecting a Barn Bike: Hydraulic Brake Restoration (non-ABS) Triumph Hydraulic Brake Restoration By Mike Grage, Technical and Customer Support at The Bonneville Shop and British Iron. This is more of a third part of my restoring a Triumph from the Hinckley factory blog series. The Constant Velocity Carburetor Cleaning/Tuning Tips & Tricks should
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By Mike Grage, Technical and Customer Support at The Bonneville Shop and British Iron. When I started my career as a motorcycle technician after graduating MMI in 1991 I had no idea that every spring every shop I worked in would be filled with motorcycles that ran when they were parked anywhere from a few
It’s been said many times that nothing wakes up an old British motorcycle like a new carburetor. Amal carb fitment shouldn’t be that hard. It would be so nice if you could just open the box of your newly purchased Amal Concentric carburetor, remove the wrapping and bolt it up to your manifold. Well,
Amal Carb Fitment: An Everyman’s Guide Read More »
By Dave Porter, Technical and Customer Support at The Bonneville Shop Steps to Install New Clutch Rubbers Using a Clutch Locking Tool The Disassembled Clutch Center Old Clutch Hub Install…
TECH TIP: How to Install New Clutch Rubbers Read More »
By Dave Porter, Technical and Customer Support at The Bonneville Shop The 1970 Triumph TR6R Build Continues: Rotor and Stator Next in the series shows me checking the air gap of .009” between the rotor and stator, in various positions. I rotate the engine while moving the feeler gauge around the circle, ensuring there is
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By Dave Porter, Technical and Customer Support at The Bonneville Shop Have you thought about getting an old barn bike to fix up but feel like you don’t know where to start? Are you thinking that you have a smaller budget to get it back on the road? No worries, mate. Sometimes it’s great to
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