Handmade Seat Spring Seats.. '56 Triumph Project

GNRS "The Grand National Roadster Show" 2012

Went to the GNRS in Pomona, here are some of my favorite shots..

Old Friends

I met my childhood friend Jörg from Germany. Remembering my beautiful days in Sande was great.We met in Las Vegas, next day we went to the Hover Dam and drove around Lake Mead. What a beautiful day we had.

The two skinny guys, reuntied after 30 years! - Not so skinny anymore ;-)

What an engineering marvel! Just east of Las Vegas is the spectacular Hoover Dam

Front End Components ONE.. '56 Triumph Project

Made all to fit the Norton pre war girder..

Fabricating the stem nut

Making The Seat Pan.. '56 Triumph Project

Now there is a dead-line for this project. I am probably spending more than 10 hours everyday on this build since the race season ended.

11gauge cr steel

Fender Struts.. '56 Triumph Project

Solid steel, hand carved & forged

Last Race Of The Season

Now we have a long winter ahead of us until the first race next year in May. This season we joined the SCTA Club, 'Milers' and met lots of nice people, of course we gained lots of experience too. Our best official time was 116.345 MPH, we are pretty happy with the result, even though we had the potential to do better. After the '56 Triumph project, the racing bike "Kursed" will go through a complete rebuild including new design sheet metal components. The new 2012 Kursed V2 build will be published here after April, our goal is to have the total redesigned racing bike ready for Bonneville Speed Week August 2012.

Some pictures from our last race at El Mirage;

Woody's beautiful Harley-Aermacchi

Blessings from The Great Doug Robinson *insert epic conversation and music*

We loved this car, Captain Nemo would probably too

Aryan send me this picture, Thank you

Jay and Tim closing the season, ready to leave the lake bed  

ELMO Race Weekend, Oct. 23

Sunday morning waiting in line for tech-inspection.

Jay putting on fresh numbers

SCTA Chief Motorcycle Inspector Tom Evans making sure my pre-war front end is secured

Shooting the wind between races.

A fellow triumph racer just about to take off.

Keeping cool..

Norton 16H Front End

This one belongs to the "Redesigning The 1956 Triumph" project. It is a very nice heavy duty pre-war girder with rebound springs that i'm reconditioning. 

The threads are fixed, some rust has been taken care of and new 26 TPI nuts installed. Next i will need to make some friction plates and then it will be totally striped/cleaned and ready for paint.

Documentation

Not bad,

Revving up to 6800+ in the 4th Gear.

The new rebuild gearbox and the sprocket combination worked well. Honestly, at the end of the video I rolled off the throttle seeing it was still revving up, I figured i had enough for the day..

Final Ratio?

Rebuilding a different ratio gearbox..

Large sprockets are cool, only if you have the hp though..

Now we need to test the bike with the new handlebar design and gears.

Mods Continue..

Narrow handlebars;

At the Dry Lake Bed

What a bummer, we couldn't run because of a clutch issue..

There are two more race weekends this season at El Mirage, we have time to fix the issues and get back on the race course..

Getting ready for El Mirage..

Total re-build after speed-week.

Hopefully we'll make it..