Pretty neat pic featuring Nixon and a young Mike Kidd. Mike is the boy in the photo left of Sammy Tanner. This was at the 1968? Astrodome short track event. At the time, Nixon was the current number one plate holder, Mike Kidd grew up to be the 1981 champion.

Photo courtesy of Curtis Terry

Updated pictures of the 1956 Ariel restoration.

A few pictures we have gathered of Richard Clark. Richard raced Triumph motorcycles out of South Carolina from 1949-1963. He placed 6th in the Daytona 200 twice; once on the beach course and once on the super speedway. Richard was also the south east flat track champion six times in a row. Look for a more in depth post about Richard soon.

Some pictures of the Mabry frame T140 coming together.

In 1974 the usual riders and crew at Big D Cycle had pissed Jack Wilson off. Bound and determined to get the job done without them, Jack went to Bonneville to ride this turbocharged Triumph three cylinder himself. He set a record at 170MPH, but he did a one way pass of 190MPH before blowing the motor up. At the age of 47, Jack went faster than any of the other Big D guys had ever been. Just another example of his legendary status as a certified badass.

We have finished up work on the Brelsford bike. Here it is parked next to the Odom bike. At first glance it is easy to get the two confused. The only outward differences are the fork lowers and carburetors. The Brelsford is setup with Amal monoblocs, and Odom’s bike has Mikunis. Brelsford’s has chrome fork lowers, and Odom’s has painted. The biggest difference between them, that you cannot see, is that Odom’s bike has an early Triumph lightweight crank.

Updated pictures of the Ariels progressing.

A few pictures of an Ed Mabry framed T140 developing around the shop.

If you read this blog on a semi-frequent basis, you know we have been working on this project for a while. This motorcycle was the pick of the litter out of the big stash of bikes we purchased two years ago. Today, we rode it for the first time. It was a little wet sumped from sitting idle, which is the culprit of the smoke. The Silver Hawk walked away from the camera bike, an XR70. The Matchless has been ready to go for a while, only needing the timing adjusted and a new needle for the carburetor before its maiden voyage down the street and back. It was really neat to see it ride again, after monitoring all the ups and downs of the restoration progress.

We just received this T100 Triumph that once belonged to Richard Clark. Richard raced the Daytona 200 and placed 6th two times. This particular bike is fitted with Tri-Cor race kit parts, see the scan of the parts break down for the race kit. The ignition system is fed off a magneto that is in the primary that runs off a small rotor on the end of the crank. The magneto then supplies the spark to the Indian Scout distributor. The cylinder head has been highly modified to accept two carburetors, and this project came with the pipes and megaphones from the kit. The oil tank is also from the kit and non-factory. This oil tank is larger than stock and has a long neck filler that is much wider than stock. The filler is set up this way so that during pit stops at the 200 the crew could dump quarts of oil into the tank quickly. The Tri-Cor race kit was available before Triumph produced the Daytona model, which was the first 500cc Triumph with a twin carb head from the factory. We have a t100SS that we will use as a donor bike. Don Burnett is pictured in one of the scans, he won the Daytona 200 on a similar Tri-Cor equipped T100.