Fast Eddie said:FUD ... ?
acotrel said:If you want a triton, you are obviously after something which has a bit of period authenticity from the fifties.
acotrel said:If I was building a Triton, I'd try to get the older manx frame with the bolt up rear end. If I wanted a comfortable equivalent or better, I'd simply buy a Bonneville of about 1963. I'd avoid the slimeline frame and tritons with unit construction motors fitted. If you want a triton, you are obviously after something which has a bit of period authenticity from the fifties. A Norton Manxman is a much better deal than a slimeline Triton, if you want sixties stuff.
Rohan, stick to your matchlesses, I've only ever seen two decent ones - the G90 and the mid sixties one which had a decent bottom end and an alloy barrel, the rest were crap.
Triton Thrasher said:I think you're striving for an idealised past. Almost all Tritons were built after the 1950s, although often out of 1950s Triumph parts. A substantial proportion of all the Featherbed ES2s and Model 50s ever made must have ended up as Tritons. And they were mostly 1959-on Slimlines. Rohan can tell me of I've got that wrong.
acotrel said:Rohan, stick to your matchlesses, .
Rohan said:Triton Thrasher said:I think you're striving for an idealised past. Almost all Tritons were built after the 1950s, although often out of 1950s Triumph parts. A substantial proportion of all the Featherbed ES2s and Model 50s ever made must have ended up as Tritons. And they were mostly 1959-on Slimlines. Rohan can tell me of I've got that wrong.
Sounds good to me.
Not that I have any clairvoyant insights into these things...
acotrel said:. And if you were unlucky enough to totally destroy your Manx motor while racing the bike , you had a real problem.
acotrel said:. And if you were unlucky enough to totally destroy your Manx motor while racing the bike , you had a real problem.
Triton Thrasher said:Well, tell us what the owner/factory did about it then. It must have happened a few times!
Triton Thrasher said:I just don't know whether there were wideline pushrod singles and am disinclined to research!
Fast Eddie said:A Triton is by definition a special... ergo a customised machine.
There is not, never was, and never will be an 'authentic' Triton !!
It like saying 'a standard custom' its an oxymoron.
Rohan said:as a 'special' the concept that there is some standard to judge them by seems somewhat odd.