1968 ad 
Some of the rarest, much harder to find than the pricey MCM caps. Notice the added (oil seal?) peices to the rocker shafts in the ad as well as the late model spring steel cap retainers from a 9-bolt head triumph added to the tops of the preunit rocker box.
All these were taken from the back of 1968 issues of Cycle World. The price of the Ariel is twice what a new motorcycle would have cost you at the time, making the price of the double engine dragster pretty amazing, but the bronze head '39 Tiger rebuilt to as new condition is f-ing unbelievable!
Bought through ebay last September when the US dollar was taking a now common dive, Phil got this all-alloy engined Triumph for a song and had it shipped from California back across the Atlantic to his home in Hossegor, South west of France. 
Sunny skies, surf and a swingarm frame TR5. Phil added a matching P-pad and also plans to replace the large oil tank & tool box with a small oil tank from a rigid frame Triumph as well as adding some cocktail shakers to the exhaust. Like a lot of modern day vintage motorcycle enthusiasts Phil has a blog of his own. I found it to be very entertaining.
If you have a bike that fits any of the styles covered in this blog and want to show it off, send me some pics! 
For Sale by Jon Rispante: Kruzin62@aol.com
Here's a little peek at the rebuild of the Assasin that Jon's doing. All stripped down, cleaned up and ready for the rassembly of all those bitchin' original parts. Completion deadline, June 12th for BORN FREE. Nice pad!
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. 
