#triumph chopper

Had some nice weather this past Saturday so I managed to get some things done on the chopper. Swapped bars, got my carb slides synched, got the idle a little better, started tweaking the mixture on the left side since that one runs a tiny bit rich and I think it’s giving me this one little sputter spot in 4th gear. Still need to do some tweaking but it’s better. No point in being too nit picky now, I’ll most likely have to re-adjust when it’s significantly warmer out anyway 😅 I also got my expensive lil air/oil separator for my crankcase breather since she is in fact a ‘67 Triumph and they spit oil outta there and even with a longer breather tube routed up high it’s still getting out and covering everything (nice little built-in chain lube but too messy for my taste haha) so just have to make a mount and pop that on this week.

One of our Romford customers, David Gill, is a keen photographer and often sends us photos to share.  Here’s something different – it’s a Triumph Thunderbird pre-unit   engine fitted in to a chopper frame in the 1970s.  It was owned by a friend of David’s, but has now been sold to a new owner who has since changed the foot gearchange to a stick shift.  These photos were taken by David at…