Some photos from the ongoing 1971 Triumph Bonneville winter project:
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| One of the boxes of spares. |
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| Spare cylinder head and engine covers. |
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| Looking into the top of the valves… |
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| Yep, that’s a 1984 plate sticker on it! |
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| Front wheels cleaned up nicely. |
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| Motor cleaned up well too! |
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| Got it out into the minus ten sun to give it another clean up now that it’s stripped. |
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| Strance is back to stock now that the massive chopper front shocks are gone. |
The goal is to get it mechanically sorted and ride it rat-bike style next summer to iron out an kinks. Next winter it’ll all come apart again and this time the frame will get painted and so will the body panels. I’ve found some year correct Triumph badges but I’m thinking something a bit non-stock for the paint job, like perhaps a Gulf racing livery colour scheme:
https://www.autoevolution.com/news/gulf-racings-iconic-livery-looks-at-home-on-this-modified-yamaha-sr400-149258.html#agal_6
I’m also thinking about seats. A plain stock seat costs the better part of $500US. For only $100 more I could get a custom coloured Corbin seat!
https://www.corbin.com/triumph/vintlist.shtml
More research needed, but that looks sharp! You can customize Corbin vintage seats like their modern bike seats, so I could match it to the Gulf racing colour scheme too.
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