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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Machines in Competition
    • Bonneville Speed Record
    • ISDT Success
    • Success in the Scottish
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Mountain Cub and Cafe tales
by Graham (Grays) Smith​
Hi there Steve,
You wanted to know how many 'Cubbers' there are out there in membership land. Well, I've got a 1967 Mountain Cub; and as you will note it's in full trials trim.
 
Now I don't know if it was exported as a works Triumph trials bike to the USA (?), or if it was a 'Comerford' special exported to the USA, or if it was converted to trials spec' by Johnson Motors (Jo-Mo, Seattle, USA) when it arrived at his dealership in 1967.
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​It is a bit of a mystery as to its full colourful history in the states. The Cub was re-imported back to the UK in 1997 and is fully road legal re: day light hours only!
 
Since I have owned it I have changed the oil, cleaned out the oil tank and filter, replaced the oil pipes under the sump, purchased a new Morgo oil pump (yet to fit), renewed the air filter, fitted an in-line petrol filter, added a drive chain tensioner and finally an on-board Pro Mo camera.
I would like to add that I use it a lot, but the truth is I hardly use it at all. I just love owning a piece of Triumph history.
​It's the same with its big brother, my 1961 Triumph TR6. In fact it is a replica of my 1961 TR6SS that I owned when I was seventeen years of age. Same year, same colour, same spec.
 
That's when the Ace cafe was a true dump, i.e. holes in tables and your spoon was shared with everyone as it was on a chain. If a fight broke out you got out via a broken window - all true !
 
I can remember being at The Cellar Cafe in Windsor, by Eton Bridge; and there was about a hundred of us bikers. All of a sudden a Mod scooter appeared being carried at shoulder height by about four bikers and then tossed into the river Thames.
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​A great cheer went up as the scooter just disappeared with a splash and a load of bubbles - then everyone carried on as if nothing had happened.
 
Those were truly great and mad days - we just didn't know it at the time !
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