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    • Aunt Tiny
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    • Mashooq's Tiger Cub
    • 48 Years with my Cub
    • Ready for the Arbuthnot
    • My Collection of Cubs
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    • My favourite Cub of all
    • A Cub in Norway
    • Beginning of a Terrier Restoration
    • An Ambush of Cubs
    • A T20C Cub (probably!)
    • A Moment Frozen in Time
    • Finally after 56 years!
    • Still riding Cubs after 60 years
    • A Lakeland Venture
    • Back to my Teens!
    • Terrier Tribulations!
    • Brian's Cub Special
    • Sold, Bought, Restored
    • It started with a Cub
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    • Tiger Cub Trials!
    • Getting my '59 Cub in '58
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    • My 1961 International Six Days
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    • Who is this?
    • Mountain Cub Mystery
  • The Bermuda Connection
  • Buy - Sell - Swap
  • Welcome
  • Introduction
  • The Story begins...
  • An Interview with Mr Turner
  • Model information
    • Terrier T15
    • Tiger Cub T20 >
      • 1954/55
      • 1956
      • 1957
      • 1958
      • 1959
      • 1960
      • 1961/62
      • 1963-on
    • Competition Cub T20C
    • Sports Cub T20S
    • Woods Cub T20W
    • Sports Lights Cub T20SL
    • Trials Cub T20T
    • Street Scrambler T20SS
    • Scrambler T20SR/T20SC
    • Trials & Scrambler TR20/TS20
    • Sports Home Cub T20SH
    • Mountain Cub T20SM/T20M
    • War Department (T20WD/T20M WD
    • Bantam Cub T20B
    • T20B Super Cub
  • Police Machines
    • The RUC Cubs
  • Buyer's Guide
  • Resources
  • Technical
    • Machine Numbers
    • Gear Clusters
    • Front Forks
    • Front Fork Oil Change
    • Condensers
    • Finding T.D.C.
    • External Oil Filter
    • Lucas Energy Transfer
    • 12V Conversion
    • Fitting Indicators to a Tiger Cub
    • Fitting a Craven Luggage Rack
    • Spark Plugs and Sparks
    • Know your Alternator
    • Oil Pumps and Lubrication
    • PRS8 Switch Repair
    • T20 Oil Filter Kit
  • Your Stories
    • My Wee Cub
    • Denny's Terrier
    • A T20C Story
    • TR20 Cub Sorted
    • Saving Sylvia
    • My 1959 Tiger Cub
    • My First Restoration
    • Found in a Scrap Yard
    • My First Bike
    • Brand new out of the Box
    • On the Road after 40 years
    • First bike I ever Rode
    • The' Tarbuk' Conversion
    • A Tiger Cub in a Box
    • Aunt Tiny
    • Well-travelled Terrier
    • Mashooq's Tiger Cub
    • 48 Years with my Cub
    • Ready for the Arbuthnot
    • My Collection of Cubs
    • Mountain Cub and Cafe tales
    • My favourite Cub of all
    • A Cub in Norway
    • Beginning of a Terrier Restoration
    • An Ambush of Cubs
    • A T20C Cub (probably!)
    • A Moment Frozen in Time
    • Finally after 56 years!
    • Still riding Cubs after 60 years
    • A Lakeland Venture
    • Back to my Teens!
    • Terrier Tribulations!
    • Brian's Cub Special
    • Sold, Bought, Restored
    • It started with a Cub
    • A Family Connection
    • Cubs & Terriers in the Family
    • Benny's Tiger Cub
    • Tiger Cub Trials!
    • Getting my '59 Cub in '58
  • The Princeton Cubs
    • Class of 2009 - 2010
    • Class of 2010 - 2011
    • Class of 2011 - 2012
    • Class of 2012 - 2013
    • Class of 2013 - 2014
    • Class of 2014 -2015
    • Class of 2015 - 2016
    • Class of 2016 - 2017
    • Class of 2017 - 2018
    • Class of 2018 - 2019
    • Class of 2019 - 2020
  • Sporting Tales
    • Bonneville Speed Record
    • ISDT Success
    • Success in the Scottish
    • My 1961 International Six Days
  • TC&T Mysteries
    • The Terror
    • Who is this?
    • Mountain Cub Mystery
  • The Bermuda Connection
  • Buy - Sell - Swap
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The beginning of a Terrier restoration
by Michael Cook
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​It's approaching the end of 2020 and I have just got my sister-in-laws old 1954/55 Terrier. It's in a mess as it's been stored inside and outside for years. The front wheel has rotted away although I still have the hub, and the back wheel is beyond saving. The petrol tank and seat are both missing.
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​I would not have taken this bike on had it not been my sister-in-laws, but I remember her riding the bike back in the 1960's. My brother Alan had a Bonneville and at the time was a member of the Triumph Owners' Motorcycle Club. Pat, who later become his wife, was also a member of the owners' club. They met each other after being put together on a point to point meeting, started to date and ended up getting married.
 
Then children started to come along, the Bonneville had to go, and Pat's bike was last ridden about the mid 1960's. The bike was stored from place to place before beginning to fall into disrepair. It started to get left uncovered and that's where we are today, but both my brother Alan and his wife Pat are no longer with us, and that's how I have ended up with the bike.
 
 But where do I begin?
 
I think I will start by spraying everything with WD40. Looking round it everything looks pretty good or at least restorable, perhaps with the exception of the front forks!
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​I think the hardest bits to get will be the battery/toolbox with door and the bit that goes under the headlight at the top of the folks.
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But if there's any offers...
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I now have back wheel and a petrol tank but still need a front wheel; and I think it would look great with just a single seat.
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My son had a look at the bike and he was not that impressed. Do I see something different to him? I look at it and I can see what I can do with it.
 
More news as the restoration progresses...

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30/12/20
Latest news...

Busy with stripping everything down and found the frame has some rot where the oil tank and tool/battery box was.

I will cut that bit out and weld a bit in...

25/02/2021
Making progress...

​With the badly corroded section of frame removed, I cut a suitable piece of tube and  chamfered the mating surfaces ready for welding.
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​Any other sections of the frame I found to be on the thin side, I filled with weld before sanding down to size.
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I've just got a couple of brackets to make now and weld on. The frame should then be ready to fully de-rust and clean up before getting some paint on it.

​​The rear suspension was extremely corroded, but one side came off fairly easily. The other side though required some real work to remove it!
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I decided to start on the front hub next.
​Although looking a bit worse for wear, it freed up nicely.

Having said that, I had to cut the nut off to strip it. But we got there in the end.
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26/03/2021
On to the frame and here's a quick update...
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​As the locating lugs for the seat springs had literally corroded away, I decided to make some new ones and weld them into place.
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The top cross-piece on the frame had also seen far better days and had virtually rusted away, so I fabricated a new one and welded that in place too.
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15/05/2021
Coming along although a little slowly...
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I've been busy of late but I have managed to get the side covers off the engine.

The pictures look a little worse than it all actually is and I've left everything in a bucket of diesel oil to soak.
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Unfortunately six bolts holding one of the covers to the crankcase snapped as I tried to remove them, and I've had to carefully drill the stubs out being careful not to damage the casing.
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My Terrier is still progressing, although a little slowly...
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