A Triumph Motorcycle made in 1911. It has not been started for 10+ years and this is a video of the antics required to get it to run for the first time. My Grandfather Thomas owned it until 1945 and now it is back in the family.
Your grandads one badass for ridin that think around back in the day haha mad respect. Awesome bike great piece of history I’m so glad you’re actually using it
What a joy man. In 1911 that machine was a spectacle. Imagine riding into a little town on that state-of-the-art bike. Pulling up to a pub, and inventing a biker chick. Iron American Dream on RU-vid Share it. 35 motorcycles later I'm still in love. Ride on.
@@crashburnfly Hey! I appreciate.."as an older member of the community! " the time and effort u guys put into these projects, and of coarse just as u do yr thing on camera! nothing runs smoothly! Just an ol' guys point of view! Ha ha ! Look forward to seeing more more from u gentlemen! Thnk u! 😊😊👍
If you use a running start and drop the decompression lever,don't get your nuts caught up in the springs on the seat as you jump on when it starts and takes off, my brother learned this the hard way!!
These old guys are cool. They tire out on the pedals and take turns..not giving up, reminds me when I was a kid, my dad was kickin and kickin his old Indian for ever it seemed. Just wouldn't start. My grandpa said to me, want to see a Harley start? He turned the key and told me to push the button, Harley fired right up. My dad didn't say a word, but if looks could kill. Love the old bikes...
Lucas, the prince of darkness....lol. I put GM coils, points and condensers that made easy starts, even with the pos(+) ground and the stock zenier diode on my '74 T140.
@@crashburnfly Oh dear me, what's rattled your cage mate, I was OBVIOUSLY jesting see emojis>? I was having a pop at our antiquated system for licensing, that lovely bike has pedals does it not, and a bugger to start too, stay safe.
Thanks for your comments and good natured humour. In 100 years time this fine machine will still be running and the machines of today that require digital scanners will have been recycled into electric toothbrushes. The Triumph does however have an advanced multi media diagnosis system... if you can smell petrol then its got a stuck float, if you cannot then its run out....
keep pedaling fellas...you will be in London before you know it.... I had a 1970 Bonneville...tickle the carbs and it started first time and stayed running....
I believe they should pull out the PC, connect the OBDII, and check that ECU and injector... Just kidding. LOL :-) +1 on the jet/bowl bet. Awesome machine, lovely old lady. Wish I had one. ;-)
Hi Jon, yes it is running nicely now and did a c60 mile trip a few weeks ago. I will make a video of it to show it now as so many people seem interested.thanks for watching and taking the time to comment, regards Paul.
Ну тут экспертом быть не надо. Есть такая поговорка: - или нечему зажечь, или нечего поджечь. И тут уже надо смотреть все поэтапно. Может быть всё что угодно. Может топливо толком не подаваться(в данном экземпляре скорее всего в нём причина) может пробои зажигания, если двигатель горячий то проблема с цпг и т.д
@@user-hd9vj3kh1z ,все,что угодно,быть не может.Раз аппарат пускается,но с трудом,и глохнет в скором времени,то это либо проблемы с питанием,либо с зажиганием.Неправильно выставлено относительно в.м.т.,неправильный зазор на свече или в контактах,неисправна свеча или есть пробой в деталях зажигания.По питанию- либо низкий,либо высокий уровень топлива в поплавковой камере,нужна чистка карбюратора или подсос воздуха между карбюратором и двигателем.Может быть забит глушитель,как попутное явление.
Obviously they were using Lucas "prince of darkness" lighting and electrical parts back in the day. I have an aerosol can of liquid smoke left over if anyone will pay shipping. It has original MG label and parts number. Older engines were relatively low compression and need lowest possible octane number available. 95 octane doesn't have a slow enough flame propagation rate at combustion. Some things were designed to run on kerosene as an alternative fuel. The trick is to gradually turn off the choke over several minutes whenever the RPM seems to be coming up. Exhaust valve/seat leakage were a problem back in the day. Harley built some with the intake overhead of the flathead exhaust valve. Sort of early charge cooling. Very effective on durability and power output. Indian complaints to sanctioning organizations prevented them from racing it after one year. Sort of like what happened to the Chrysler hemi in NASCAR.
Sweet ! But looks like you two need to unplug the spark plug ( wire ) and spend 20 min 3 times a week on it peddling haha. Or drive it daily you could be top shape. Legs like tree trunks in a month.
