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Triumph Motorcycle Restoration
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Product Description
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #264169 in Books
- Published on: 2007-11-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 144 pages
Features
- ISBN13: 9781929133420
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Best known for mototcycle titles like How to Build a Chopper and How to Build a Cheap Chopper, how-to-author Tim Remus is also the author of custom painting books like Advanced Airbrush Art and fabrication titles like Ultimate Sheet Metal Fabrication. Today the former auto mechanic runs a small publishing company, Wolfgang Publications, located in Stillwater, Minnesota. Some of his personal projects include a recently finished 250-tire Softail and an old Henry J hot rod he says may never be finished.
Chitwood became familiar with Triumphs as a young racer. Like most young racers, Gary was rider, mechanic and tuner. From fixing his own bike Gary went on to the repair of Triumphs that belonged to other riders and eventually the business of restoring old Triumphs to better-than-new condition. Much of Gary’s work can be seen in the extensive collection of Triumph collector Bobby Sullivan. From engine overhaul to perfect paint, there isn’t anything about a Triumph motorcycle that Gary Chitwood doesn’t understand and hasn’t done. Which makes him the perfect person to co-author a book on the restoration of Triumph motorcycles.
Customer Reviews
Nice pictures
I am a bit of a Triumph nut and have most of the books written on the subject.This" Restoration" book has quite a few nice pictures but is of no practical value regarding restoring a Triumph.I'll keep it for my collection but wont be refering to it.Get Hughie Hancock's video and the Hayne's manual along with a repro factory manual and you're set!!
Triumph Motorcycle Restoration: Remus and Chitwood
This book will augment but not replace the workshop manual for a '68 T100 restoration I am planning. It is basically a step-by-step photographic journal of a restoration performed by professionals, and is not intended to be an engineering reference. I was initially a little disappointed with the content but now that I also have the original Triumph workshop manual I believe this book will provide some practical hints and tips that the Triumph manual would not give me.
Must-Have Book for British Motorcycle Afficionados
This book is a great companion to the Clymer or Hayes shop manuals. The photos are bright and clear and in color, unlike a lot of the b&w photos in the manuals. Explanations of procedures and parts are decent, but not super in-depth or technical. Reasonably priced and very practical- you'll probably want two of these books: one for your shelf, and one for your shop or garage to get grease and grime all over the pages. The book also has a decent section on identifying & differentiating the 'classic' years of T120's and TR6's.
You'll want to read it through a few times, because the photos don't always seem to follow the logical order of the procedures they're illustrating; a few sections are numbered sequentially and this is very helpful.
