A T20C - probably!
by Max Jones
by Max Jones
Hello Steve, Mike Estall suggested I give you a call (I've got his book) and tell you about my latest bike.
Well, it will be mine when this latest lockdown ends and I can collect it from my brother's garage, 90 miles away!
Well, it will be mine when this latest lockdown ends and I can collect it from my brother's garage, 90 miles away!
My brother, ten years older than me and nowhere near as good looking, was a mechanic and always had bikes, so I grew up with bikes all around and was 'instructed' in the necessary skills, such as hand lapping valves from an early age.
Now his 1957 Triumph Tiger Cub, partly dismantled due to a slight oil leak, comes to me for assembly and hopefully years of use before I and my wife (also a rider) get too old to kick start it, or the 1971 Daytona we already have.
Now his 1957 Triumph Tiger Cub, partly dismantled due to a slight oil leak, comes to me for assembly and hopefully years of use before I and my wife (also a rider) get too old to kick start it, or the 1971 Daytona we already have.
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Mike tells me the engine and frame numbers taken from the V5 are listed with Triumph as for a T20, but the photograph looks like a T20C, so I'm taking photo's of the numbers on the bike as soon as lockdown ends to send to him for his records. I'll let you know the result... |
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The plan is to get my wife, Jeanette, to learn to kick start a bike. She’s ridden bikes from a YB100 to a GL1000 but they all had electric starters. So the Cub is for her, but my fear is when she learns to start it she’ll make me ride it because it’s a right foot gear change and she’ll grab the key to the 1971 Daytona that’s been converted to left foot gears!
A couple of years ago I did a local ride (217 miles) on the Triumph Founders Rally on the Daytona with Jeanette following on her BMW K1200LT trike. I lost her on a bendy bit of the A40 so I think she’d rather like to try the Daytona!
A couple of years ago I did a local ride (217 miles) on the Triumph Founders Rally on the Daytona with Jeanette following on her BMW K1200LT trike. I lost her on a bendy bit of the A40 so I think she’d rather like to try the Daytona!