Triumph 5TA Road worthy!

I haven't posted on here for ages, but progress has been made with the bike; it is now road worthy! All that was really left to do was to connect the front brake, make a front mudguard and give the bike a general tidy up. At the same time I also changed the exhaust pipes to megaphones that are shorter than the previous pipes, making them much easier to actually mount, and give the bike a much deeper rumble when its on the road!

The front brake was pretty easy to sort out, but a complete faff when it came to shortening the brake cable. Any cable I could find that was the correct outer length was way to short when it cam to inner. In the end I bought a kit and made my own which, so far, seems to be working fine!



The front mudguard is a simple alloy one that I have cut down to make it more in keeping with the bike. It has been mounted to forks using converter plates from Unity Equipe and it looks pretty neat!

So the bike is road worthy!! Having just done a 50 mile blast on it, there are a few things that need to be sorted. The speedo cable seems to haven given up the ghost so that will need to be replaced. There is a leak on the primary side which isn't bad enough to cause any problems but it does need looking at. The plan is for the engine to come out over the winter and have a bit of a rebuild, so I'll probably just keep on eye on this until then and sort it with the build. So what does it look like? Not to bad!!







View over the bars... ish!!



So the aim of getting the bike ready for the Ace Cafe reunion has just about been acheived!! Lets hope the weather holds for next week and that nothing happens to the bike in the next week....!!