Tiger Cub Start Up! // Paul Brodie's Shop 

Every new episode since your diagnosis just makes me happier and happier. Glad you're doing well.

Great to see some premium content back on RU-vid! Cheers Paul

Really great having you back in the shop and making videos with Mitch . You can really tell when someone truly enjoys what they are doing. Paul seems like the kinda guy you could just watch for hours working and not loose focus on what he is doing.

If it didn’t leak oil, people would doubt it was really British! Glad to see you looking so well.

My first motorcycle at age 16 in 1962 was a 1957 Tiger Cub that my Brother in Law bought me for $100. I rode it home from Torrance Ca to the San Bernardino mountains. I loved that bike but traded it in for a Tohatsu Runpet Sport that was really a kick. Traded that one in for a 1965 Tiger Cub that was pristine But it got stolen ( I did retrieve it though). These were/are wonderful little gems of a bygone era. Thanks for this series Paul!

Paul, I oowned a 1970 or 71 Cub. My wife and I had the best time putting around on that little bike. Was so hard to start cold! I sometimes gave up trying. Once it was running and warned up----1 kick got the job done! But I loved that little thing!

It was quite common in GB back in the '70s to run short of vehicle building parts due to labour strikes, particularly Lucas, hence the French parts ( Cibie /Ducelier usually).Keep up the good work, nice to have you back

So happy to see you back to making genuine content frequently again. Beautiful human being.

Nice to see the Tiger Cub firing up. Looking forward to seeing it with some tuning. As soon I saw it not running, I thought it was 180 degrees out. I have a special talent for setting up timing 180 out (it’s my super power). Based on the two recent restorations I’ve completed, I estimated $8,000 for that project. Just over $6,000 is a steal. Oh, those medical tweezers are called a hemostat I think. I bought a set of snap-on tweezers with a set of those 35 years ago. Worth their weight in gold.

Brilliant to see and hear the Cub get back its roar. The bike looks a million dollars, mate. Fantastic job.

I am going through chemo for lung cancer and watching your videos inspires me. I will be adding a hard tail to my sportster as soon as the weather gets warm . But in the meantime I enjoy your videos. thanks .

Great watching you diagnose problems and how you resolve them Paul. Enjoying every episode and wishing you all the best. Excellent video Mitch!

Nice bit of keyhole surgery retrieving the foreign body. The parting shots of the Honda was a brilliant touch.

I love the TDC tool retrieval. Truly a humble man the way you went about it.👌👌👍🇦🇺

Exciting! First runs always are. Good luck with the chemo, and the carb tuning! Thanks Paul. Les in UK

love the small displacement vintage bikes Paul; thanks for sharing; be well.

There were two bikes back when I was fourteen. A Honda 150 Bently and a Tiger Cub, the Honda ran like a sewing machine. No leaks, then you have the Cub, and it kicked back like a mule. Fluid leaks finicky starting. Then you rode one flat out, the longer stroke and while laying out you could reach down and start moving the distributor and hang on. One thing I remember was with a megaphone exhaust it had the sweetest back rap. Great small bike, thanks for vid.

I've seen a few of your videos and hadn't realized you were in British Columbia. Tallying up the bill for your Cub raised an issue for us Canadians. Our weak dollar and escalating shipping costs make it more and more difficult to justify restoring and running vintage bikes. As snowbirds, my wife and I are fortunate enough to be able to spend winters in the warmer climes of California. I time this with acquiring my needed parts while in the US. I have saved hundreds of dollars in shipping costs alone. Not to mention the vast availability of parts in the US over Canada. Buying out of the UK/ Europe is a different story altogether. Were it not for my winter residence, my passion for old bikes would be seriously curtailed. Your Cub is a jewel and a credit to your hard work. I hope your health continues to improve and cheers from Calgary.

As always, thank you Paul, Mitch & Yves! Congrats on getting the Cub running! And it's very clear you're happy with it. I'm so pleased that you're feeling better. I hope you continue on that trend. I bought a couple T-shirts, as well. Hope you & yours have a nice holiday.

*STANDING APPLAUSE* 😁👏👏👏👏 This is such an awesome bike and you are lucky to have friends like him and Mitch to help you out.... I've literally been stuck under a car and my "friends" just stood there laughing at me. LoL

i love the humble brag "I don't know if you can say that about your side stand"

You are looking well Paul! I have given up adding up invoices, it is just too frightening, and at the end of the day I restore old bikes for pleasure, and, well, you can't take it with you. I envy your shop Paul.

I´m glad to see you back in the shop. You always surpass my expectations. Estou clicando aqui do Brasil. Acompanho seu trabalho desde sempre. I´m realy apreciate you job! I hope all goes well with your recovery. Abraço!

Surprised me Paul, I thought double that. Glad to see you back doing what you enjoy doing. Thank you for sharing. Regards from across the pond

Great to see it running, you are looking well too. 👍

Paul, you’re looking great! It’s great to see you again. Look forward to each new video. Hi Mitch, keep up the great videography. Paul and Mitch, like ham and Swiss.

❤So glad youre are back, and doing what you love. Thank you for sharing all your knowledge with us. I have seen all your videos

Good to see you are doing better and also good to hear the cub running. 👍

Whoa !!! In 1965 I bought my "59 Triumph Tiger Cub for $300 . Years later I sold it for $75 and a ride home . Have been riding metrics since then .

The best feeling ever hearing the bike running 😄👍 The stuff your doing Paul is way over my head, but you explain things where I can mostly understand what’s going on. Your a great teacher😊

I am really glad you are back in swing thank you so much for sharing your talent. I wish you strength

It's fascinating seeing one that looks almost brand new. Good luck.

You're a bloody genius Paul with that headlight. Very ingenious on the removal tool, that is where a borescope would have come in handy, and they make a small 3 prong grabber for getting things out of small holes. I am getting closer to securing a painter to give me an estimate on painting the entire bike ( 441 victor ). I have no idea what that is going to cost. I guessed $5500.00 on the parts. The thing about that cost is the joy in doing what you love to do so hey it's cheap. I have not added up the parts on my bike yet but after 20 years of collecting parts it doesn't make much difference to me. Hope you're feeling good and keep making the video's.

Just a little tlc needed and away Paul, great work as usual

Good wishes and good health Paul from fans in Ireland.. Wonderful to see you motoring under your own power again..lots more projects and entertainment to come we hope..

Wow. A sand cast CB750 racer. I'd like to hear that one start up. Great video as usual, Paul

Now that was a sound I remember well from my youth the back fire on closing the throttle or burble as it was when riding.

Great job on the bike Paul. I think seat looks great as well. Looking forward to hearing your hand crafted exhaust pipe at idle, perhaps for its maiden voyage when the weather warms up. Happy for you and glad you and Mitch are back in the shop...........wayne

My dad was into drag racing, and told me stories about some swapping plugs, starting the engine on hot plugs, then when warm go to cold plugs, because there is a good chance the rich mixture from starting will foul the cold plugs, before they got to a self cleaning temperature,

I had a 250 when I was 18, I put a 650 front end on it and rebuild the engine. Was a lot of fun. Wish I sill had it.

I have always called those surgical pliers hemostats. They are also good heat sinks for soldering delicate electronics.

Excellent to see her running!!!!!! You know what they say about old brit bikes & cars, if they stop leaking oil, then there's no oil left!!! 😝

Great to see even the masters don't get it easy all the time :-) - another great video guys - thanks 👍

Paul great video😢 please take care of yourself! May. God Bless You

I restored an old moped and the coil for lights was already removed so I also went with a battery pack, good for one ride. Still have a 10W tungsten bulb in the front, have to get an LED one.

Mastery at its finest. Hope the rest of your treatment is 100%..my wife suffered advanced breast cancer. She looked very deeply into the effects of everything she ate as well as exploring ‘alternative’treatments...which led to a total overhaul of her diet,lifestyle and the use of some herbal treatments. All this,combined with surgery,chemo.and radiation treatments greatly helped her recovery and return to health. The nurses looking after her were astonished how unaffected she was by all the invasive treatments as well as her 5km daily walk along the beach....All the best.

Great to hear that one cylinder British iron singing again. Keep up your spirits and keep up the chemo - it will be in that shakey Chinesium rear view soon.

Great to see your Cub running! Your videos have helped me enormously with my ‘58 Cub restoration. I often took screenshots of your videos. Interesting the cost so far...my cub is now road legal, the total costs to buy and restore and put on the road about double yours, but I had to use machine shops and a commercial painter. Regards, Al

Super! New video! Thank you!

Thank you for your expertise and continued prayers 🙏 ❤️

Those "tweezers" are Artery Forceps. Much beloved of trout fishers for taking flies out of trout jaws. (Smaller/finer ones than you have here) - they have a zillion uses apart from clamping arteries - the latter not a common job done in bike shops! Lost items down in cylinders or rollers fallen into a two stroke crankcase - grease thickly smeared onto flywheels can stick to needle rollers and fish them out - just a bit less awful than splitting cases that don't need split for legit reasons! This happened to me about thirty years back with a two stroke single that unexpectedly was found to have rollers in its little end - I'd expected the usual bronze bush. That grease dodge worked a treat, got them all out - with a little patience. The same sticky grease on a stick can be made to ease things from cylinders when you really don't want to disturb the head. Much depends on the angle of the plug hole - the more vertical the better. Nice cub you have there. Last one I had I sold for £180.... Look at what they fetch now - it's crazy time with old bike prices.

Mr. Turner would appreciate so much love and attention poured into a bike built as a low cost commuter for the working man. My Father-in-Law rode one from Newcastle to Sunderland every day to his apprenticeship on slightly larger displacement machinery at William Doxford & Sons.

made my day this instalment paul & mitch thankyou !! i guessed sub $7.000 so in the ball park but you still have a bit to go yet i know before you`re happy with the final package, but what a superb machine paul !, keep your chin up mr, 😊👍💥

been there. had all the cancer stuff surgery chemo and radiation,only thing that saved my sanity was my bike. no matter how sick the chemo made me i could always go for a ride and it would clear my head.im sure u will be fine.we cant lose a guy with your skills!!

You could do a whole video on just refitting that headlight with the led bulb and socket. That was pretty cool 😎

Looking good … beard all trimmed up. Keep fighting the fight

At 19.41 a nut fell off onto the floor. Just thought I would let you know. Thanks for sharing.

I remember the first start of an old bike I restored…it took me a bit longer…but it was a good day. 👍👍👍

Ahaaaa!!! At last! Kettle is on...

Hello Paul, Not sure if you will see this but I have 2) NGK B8ES in original boxes (2) B9ES out of boxes (1) BR9ES in original Box. All are Brand new, I am the BC Interior. Also I believe the tool you used to recover the piece from the cylinder is called a Hemostat Forceps. Best wishes for your health.

Those are some great tricks to get your TDC stopper out of the cylinder, especially with the forceps. This just reminds me that I need to get some more of them. The forceps are also excellent for pinching off fuel line and even vacuum line which comes in handy tracking down vacuum leaks. Speaking of vacuum line, I’ve used vacuum line as well as plastic air line hooked up to my vacuum pump that is normally used for leak testing. Have actually used the suction tube on my solvent siphon gun that’s powered by compressed air and the Venturi effect. Always happy to see more new content coming from your channel and happy to see you being so energetic and getting so much accomplished. Take care of yourself and great job on another episode. 👍

Ya looking better,hope your feeling better.keep up the good work 👍

always looking forward for your and Mitch videos!

I had a cub in 1977-78. A great little bike. Triumph should have carried on making them for the trials market with a better oil line connection to the bottom of the crank case! Nice to see this one in such great shape.

Wow, i woke up in the middle of the night thinking about how i missed your videos, just to see that you came back, thank you for giving us your time and showing us your magic way of doing things, greetings from 🇧🇷

I adapted a modern small CDI rotor to fit the big diameter taper of a CZ125 to replace the big flywheel and points for a friend. They always say you don't need a key because the taper actually holds the rotor on. Sounds a bit sketchy but it did work on that occasion...I built a TDC finder for another friend. We gutted a spark plug for the Hercules motor and I machined it for a 1" travel Dial Indicator stem to go through the center... Speaking of spark plugs, I was able to buy a whole carton of the old standard B8HS off eBay a few years ago. I run them In my 380 Bultaco Frontera and RL250 Suzuki trials bike.

Hi Paul, your looking a lot better, hope your recovery continues going well. We are still in hotel since Hurricane Ian, it's gotten really old now and looks like we will be here until January Probably few people know what a 'sand cast' CB750 is, rare for one thing but also original 1969 motor. I guess it's had quite a few modifications over the years? Although I worked on a lot of them at Honda dealers, personally was never a 'fan' of the CB750, too wide and too heavy although they were very useful for larger brakes and longer suspension plus pistons for conversions on CB500/550F to get a 591cc motor.

Awesome!!! Thanks for sharing.

Carb tuning video..., absolutely! plug chop.., yes please!.., ❤️

Nice work Guy! Every project needs fine tuning I’m sure she will run like a scalded ape !!

Superb job Paul 👏👏👌look forward to every episode, and a early Honda motor out in the snow ,Future project ?It’s 33/34deg Celsius here Cheers Chris

There are screw heads under that mirror glass. You can pop it off with some heat and tighten em.

Hi Paul, Nice job removing the piston stop from the cylinder. I know most people panic about dropping stuff into a cylinder, you have shown there is no need to panic. On R44 helicopters, We drop the exhaust valves back into the cylinders to ream the guides with the cylinders still installed. With a little patience the valves are jiggled back into position. Admittedly the cylinders are horizontal...

As the Cub was built for sale in the UK and associated markets (Australia, Rhodesia, New Zealand etc, it had a left hand dip beam lensed headlight and the OEM brand was a Miller. Export bikes to right side driving countries used a French unit as of course the French drive on the right. I guess it was cheaper to source a continental lamp rather than make a special unit...

“Show and tell”,,,,,,, I’m showing and telling my hot rod friends of how “old school” stuff was done ….(the right way) you are a revel with a cause mr Paul Brodie….

great video Paul. great to see you again.

I LOVE Those COMP Cubs 😀I.HAD a 1961 g

Paul you always amaze me how you can find solutions to problems that pop up. Have a good Christmas and continue to feel better.

wow, experts at work, nice shop, what looks like a Monza engine on the wall and what looks like a Hawk in the snow, functional and interesting place, thanks for sharing

You are amazing. Love your work.

Paul, glad to see you back. Working on these old Brits is good therapy. The part number for NGK BR8ES is 5422. Most autoparts stores have them but the people working the counter can't find them in the system without the part number. They will try to look up a Tiger cub. Yeah right. All NGK plugs are resistor style these days. Shouldn't be a problem with your ei. I'd be a little afraid of that 6, it's on the hot side. Sounds like it might be really lean. Maybe raise the carb needle.

Hi Mitch behind the camera! I'm David in front of the screen! 😃😄😀

Great work she looks amazing 💪🏻💪🏻

Yay! You've built a beautiful little Triumph! May you enjoy it for many years to come! Sorry for all the explanation points but I'm happy for you.

You teased us with a brief look at a CR750 Honda at the end. Can you please tell us more? Love your work.

With that mirror, you could pivot it 180 degrees down, then inward under the handlebar. Gives exactly the same view, except better because it doesn’t have to show your elbow! Looks cool too.

Hey Paul well the cub vids as well as Excelsior vid got me motivated and my 7 year silent BSA 441 got a 30 day complete rebuild frame up waiting on rings to bed in. Enjoy the bike a youtube guy Paul Henshaw has some great UK 250 cub trails rides up. Wish I had a good welder in Van to make a proper GS exhaust pipe,

Good to see you back again ✌️

We all know that Mitch is there, that handsome camera shy fella.

Headlamp looks like a 2CV headlamp ,bike looks good.

Uh, oh..., the early '60s Honda twin out in the snow at 7:16 is sad. Perhaps it's waiting for some attention from the 'master'..🤗 The Cub looks great, they're a handsome lightweight for their time but had their biggest following for racing, not so much as street bikes due to reliability problems. It oughta be a nice runner when the carb gets attention.

Fantastic to hear bike roaring. Little bit different sound like 6cylinder inline I was flying yesterday but very pleasant. Thanks Paul.

I have a collection of surgical forceps in my shop and they come in handy for many projects that require holding or retrieving items👏

Liked the way you trimmed your beard. Glad your back.

I Realy Enjoyde Watching You Tinkering About With The Triump,It Is A Lovely Looking Little Bike, You A Good At What You Do,I Am Sure It Will Be Sounding Sweet Soon.

Paul Surgical clamps have saved my bacon more times than I can remember everybody should have at least one pair in there toolbox the cheapest place to get them in the uk is fishing tackle suppliers as they are used to remove hooks from the fishes mouth. You can also get them in all lengths from surgical suppliers. Great vid as always. Jon.

What magic did the engineers include into that tiny little engine to make it sound so good.

Cubs are cool! Yours is ultra clean. "The cost" I once did a garden variety fix up to ride job on an R75/6...........................................At the well over 3000.00 level I threw in the towel. Rode it once or twice. "What was I thinking?"............By the time the rest of the mechanical issues were fixed, then cosmetics...........I would have been at 4 times value of bike,at least. And still would have had a clunker sitting here. Traded it for something modern and considered it a life lesson.

Those pincher tools are called hemostats. It's so nice having you back Mr Brodie.

Enjoyed the video, you're having fun.