My first restoration was a lovely little sprint / hill climb
racing T20 from the 1960s
by Bart Pocock

My first restoration was a lovely little sprint / hill climb racing T20 from the 1960s. I got it dismantled in several boxes. It was run at the time with no mudguards or lights of course, clip-ons de rigeur, beefier forks & front brake, extended carb float chamber and wrap around fuel hose for those long corners. Front end from a 3TA or 5TA maybe? Weirdest of all, no footpegs either! It had a shortened brake pedal and must have had the gear-lever reversed....to ride with boot heels on the swinging arm.

Roy helped with tracing the numbers to get a date related plate assigned to it back in the late 1980s. Phil Short being just up the road from where I was in Rushden back then, supplied and sourced the missing pieces to make it a road-runner again. It had a tatty fabric saddle, (looked like it might have been red or pink velvet?), but I had a proper one made up by a local vehicle upholstery specialist in France, using the old one as a guide and photos of how it should have looked.

So this little guy found in bits in boxes in the back of a shed, where she had been for 1/4 of a century, was the start of Triumph being a part of my life. This is a piccy of her now.
​Note platform needed for side-stand given the longer forks.