So, a Desert Sled it is………..or will become....

How cool is this! 1971 Triumph T100R Daytona…………that means twin carb, 500cc little hot rod. The bike showed up at a local shop called “The Daily Rider” in Burlington, VT. It’s a numbers matching examp...

Today I took off all of the wiring on the bike. I just had to disconnect all of the wires from their connections and I was done. I had to take the headlight off because all of the wires centralized in...

Today I took the fenders off of the bike. I set up the bike in the driveway and proceeded to unscrew tons of nuts and bolts to get parts off. The front fender came off with no problem. However, the ba...

The piston I ordered is technically a piston for a BSA, however, it will work for my bike perfectly. I needed a +.020 piston (20 over the original production size piston) because as the piston goes up...

I found a parts manual online that has diagrams of all of the different parts on the motorcycle and where they go.The manual shows a bike that is the same model as mine but it is 2 years older than my...

The Rocker Box had to come off first. We figured out that most of the bike uses Whitworth which is a British standard hardware. This is no longer used but since my bike was from 1970 they still used t...

Today my dad drove me to Colin's house to pick up a head steady. When we got home we took the motor out of the bike and brought it into the basement. We put it on the bench where I'm going to do the r...

The muffler is a racing type so it goes behind the frame and sticks out the back. It is a high muffler so it goes on top of the motor instead of underneath it. The muffler is a little rusty so we have...

Today my dad and I tried to get the motorcycle to run. I mounted the carburetor then checked if it had spark, compression and fuel. It had all three of these things. However, the motorcycle, for a rea...

Today my dad and I went to look at a 1970 Triumph tr25w. The motorcycle didn't come with a couple of its parts including the carburetor and the gas tank. There were only 5,775 miles on it since it was...

My grandfather bought this bike brand new and after many moves and traveling across the country the bike found a home under a car port with a majority of the parts sitting in a tub in a station wago...

Can't wait to see it done ?...

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The seat came out awesome!! Before:...

After today's festivities, I spent a little time working on the bush pig. Okay, okay... a lot of time, but who's counting. Got the rest of the front end put together....

Still quite a bit of work to do, BUT I got the motor back together and heard the old bush pig run for the first time. It might not seem like a big deal, and it was only a few seconds. But it's just th...

Early on in this project, I discovered an oil leak. Turns out, the shifter cover got jacked up at some point. This individual used a chunk of fiberglass to repair it. Fortunately I was able to find a...