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For those of you with keen eyes, you will note that the oil feed yoke is not attached to anything! In fact, there is nothing under the tank at all! As more pictures come back from the photolab-o-dad, they will appear here.)
Oh yes! I AM dreaming of being able to ride this one day! Of note here are the non-standard parts on the front end. I need to replace: Headlamp, headlamp mount, instruments, and eventually the control levers as well as they are Japanese repros. If anyone has some cheap, let me know?)
"You see things vacationing on a motorcycle in a way that is completely different from any other. In a car, you are always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You're a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame.On a cycle the frame is gone. You're completely in contact with it all. You're in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming. That concrete whizzing by five inches below your foot is the real thing, the same stuff you walk on, it's right there, so blurred you can't focus on it, yet you can put your foot down and touch it at anytime, and the whole thing, the whole experience, is never removed from immediate consciousness"
From "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert M. Pirsig On the back cover of one of the best motorcycle books I've read, is (if I'm not mistaken) an old Triumph, much like the one I am rebuilding. All the more reason finish!
Just a quick note about myself before we get going...
This is my first introduction to restoring motorcycles, and I THINK I chose a good place to start. But, I am also learning that it would be nice to have one place to go to get the information that I need badly. So, instead of whining about it, I decided to do something about it. Since I've done many Web pages, I thought I could collect the information, and put it in an easy to use format. I hope I have succeded! Links So Far...
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