This one is wicked. A Rich Richards engine sporting a full race head with 1 3/16" Monoblocs, H&C TT cams and 10.5 to 1 pistons. The lengthened and lowered chassis sits just right and the remote mounted swingarm type oil tank fits perfectly and gives the needed clearance for those big intake runners. Riding this to work everyday in Southern California was really living the dream.
New in 1968
1968 Triumph Sport Cycle
1967 Cycle Guide
How-to twisted pegs as done on the Enchanted Parrot. 
Another highly modified swingarm framed custom show bike with modifications seemingly inspired from experimentation with hallucinogenics. I owned the electrics box from this bike for awhile, bought from Scott Craig at a SoCal swap meet. Unfortunately the recovered body part is proof that the bike is no more. The neat little horse shoe was a later addition and in very small brush lettering underneath it says "My luck running out". Due to my ongoing poorboy status it was sold, because the need for parts for projects doesn't allow for display pieces in my little ol' garage.
Need more and better pics of this one. Lots of little custom details that are hard to see.
"little too hairy for normal driving"? No way...
Back in the day, a custom motorcycle with white wall tires meant one thing for sure. It was a east coast bike. As far as I know there never was a whitewall mounted on any custom cycle west of the Rockies. Prove me wrong if you can, but it seems that whitewalls were taboo on the west coast. Kinda odd since the 1960's Rod & Custom auto scene in California used whitewalls almost exclusively on show cars and many street rides too. Of course over the past decade or so many a "bobber" has been shod with white walls, but unfortunately they were usually matched up with red painted wheel rims and a heavy dose of flat black on parts that should have been sent to the chrome shop, like blacked out aftermarket springer front ends from the '70s, making for something that was not period correct in any way and not even close to being a real bob job. A horrible phase of custom bike styling that has thankfully past. I'm definitely not against using whitewalls on a custom bike and in fact have a white walled custom cycle in the works now. One thing good about our modern era, from looking at these pics, grafitti art has got a lot better. 
We've all got a little less than six months to go. Just a blink of an eye for bike builders.
"The Perry & Scott, twin was aligned with Loux & Stanley's double Triumph. Perry left first, coughed twice and came in second." Bad luck twins! First time I've seen a name for this bike "Long Gone"
"Competition was very keen and the big run-off's matched Murray & Cook's twin engine Triumph with Harley mounted Leo Payne. Both came out of the hole well, but Payne took the win in e.t. bracket one." Winner of event, Leo's H.D. e.t./speed of 9.98/147. Later: "The crowd came to its feet when Murray & Cook came out on a record run with a sensational 9.63 second e.t. and a top speed of 155.17 MPH."
This pic is from the same Las Vegas event. I talked to a guy a few years ago that was in possession of "Tinker Toy". I'm pretty sure he was out of SoCal. Anyone know him???
"Hey,
I'm interested in anything like this that was made for Amal Monobloc's.
If you have any parts like this for sale or trade shoot me an email!
The elusive aftermarket Q air filter. Some do not have the Q stamping, but are the same part. I very much need one of these. Will pay cash or trade parts: kustomhut13@yahoo.com 
Circa 1968, close to the way it was in the article in the previous post but now sporting a huge 15" X ? drag slick.
The clutch is a mix of Sportster, Triumph & Ariel parts.
Clean as a whistle Triumph pre-unit forks that look slightly shortened. I like the late 1950's Triumph swingarm incorperated into the chassis. Running some spiffy Chantland big bore cylinders at this point and back to a four inch slick. Too bad it lost the beautiful primary cover. Some hairy tales in this short article that's definitlely worth a read.
Great little story by Bob Braverman on what it's like to ride a Triumph double engine dragbike from the days before wheelie bars, when you needed to break the rear tire loose to keep from doing a over the top wheelie. The top page shows Rich Richards dragbike taking off. That bike is a survivor and I've seen pictures of it the past couple years in SoCal.
