Al Rieske's 1955 Triumph Show Bike

1969 Cycle Guide

Pipe Dream

From Cycle Guides 1969 Custom Annual. A great How-To 100 page magazine on the exploding chopper scene of the time. Definitely worth searching for. I've seen some of the other bikes from the magazine featured in other issues, but I've never seen anything else on the "Pipe Dream". This picture expresses the beauty of the Triumph motorcycle engine so well. Love the contrast of the paint, chrome and polished aluminium. This bike is really interesting with the unique gas tank and what looks to be a really stripped down swingarm design. Anyone know anything more about this one?

Don Marcinak's Show-Go Triumph

Great combination of function and form with engine mods that add plenty of go without sacrificing reliablity.

1969 Motorcycle Sport Book

The Big One

1969 Motorcycle Sport Book

Alvin Duck's 1953 Custom Pre-unit Triumph

A good profile picture of the complete bike would have been cool instead of the artsy layout. The front end looks kicked out and it is. In the lower picture on the second page you can see that the triple tree has been modified for extra rake.

1969 Cycle Guide

1968 MCM Catalog Bikes

Cover bikes. The black one was featured in a early issue of Ed Roth's Choppers Magazine.

Believe It

Candy Apple Star Pearl Metalflake

1968

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Motorcycle with Meaning

Timing Tip

Modified Triumph Fork Dampners

Pete sent these pics in of some custom dampners he found in a old set of pre-unit forks. Anyone have any info on them or have other custom dampners or modification tips? I like the rebound spring idea. You could put some on stock dampners to lower the forks a bit and get rid of that annoying "CLANK" as your forks shoot back down after hitting a good bump.

Accessories For Offroad Fun & Adventure

If anyone has a pair of these Triumph Dampners made by Webco I would be very interested to buy or do a trade. Or if anyone has one they'd let me borrow so I could copy it and have a batch made. Wonder what the mod to the fork tube was.

To light your way through the wild on your stripped of generator sled.

Check the Q air filter behind the pipes.

NOS

WANTED: Vintage spark arrestors!

Will trade chopper stuff for front fork rifle scabbard mount!

Up the creek with more than a paddle. Triumph Cub, hunting rifle and fly fishing gear. Set!

Complete Travel, Fun & Adventure rig.

A late 1960's Winter's Sunday in the Southern California Desert

"the leader arrived, and left again in a determined rush, his 650 Triumph heaving a roostertail of dirt in the air. Hot on the Triumph's heels was a Greeves, and then more Triumphs, and Husqvarnas, and more Triumphs, and Montesas, and more Triumphs, and Bultacos, and yet more Triumphs. Somewhere, with the leaders, a Triumph carrying Steve McQueen went by,"

If you dig the film "On Any Sunday" and love the thought of crashing through the wild southern California desert on a old sled. Find some time this weekend to give this short story a read.

Cycle 1967