Cafe Trumpet: mmm fresh cylinders and espresso

Sunday, April 22, 2012

mmm fresh cylinders and espresso

ready for tappet blocks... only.. they are both inlet blocks... *sigh.. RMA it is and back to the parts book.

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Cafe Trumpet Mission

Cafe Trumpet is my documented journey to redemption. This motorcycle started it's life (under my reign that is not the factory birth from across the pond) as a chopper that embodied "Two Wheeled Death Machine" and while I am a proponent of Two Wheeled Death Machines everywhere.. this one was truly unsafe, with critical welds covering up rotting steel to tweaked axle plates all the way to a seized front end missing one of the springs to a ticking time bomb waiting in the crank case. This is the 'final' stage to redemption after 4 years all that remains is the engine (minus the cylinders and pistons and a handful of other internal components) and the grips .. which will be changed once she is torn back apart for paint.

This motorcycle in 4 years has been:

- set on fire

- seized a rod bearing

- seized a valve

- soft seized a piston

- lost mufflers on the highway

- gone through 2 chassis

- been wired 5 times

- list goes on...

Hence.. the Tragic Trepidation that is..

My 1972 T100R

Sunday, April 22, 2012

mmm fresh cylinders and espresso

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