What Type of Bike is it ?

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12th December 2007, 08:53 PM
DEFENDERZOOK

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Originally Posted by hiline

thanks NM :D:D

i thought was going mad again:angel:

again.....?????

dont you mean still....??
12th December 2007, 09:51 PM
hiline

:angel: sorry Zook as per usual i should of said :p
12th December 2007, 09:59 PM
UncleHo

G'day Redback :)

Nice 59 big tank "Bone" with the Narcelle headlamp, generator model too, with the twin Amal Monoblock Carbies;) they just took a lot of stopping from 3 figures with that single leader front brake, :owell, the back one only put the stop light on.:D You could be right with the twin downtube being a 500, that would make it a 5T or 5TR, a little bit of a bitza I think, missing the tank badge (screw holes) no gennie (6V alternator pre unit) think the 500's were first with that,coil ign :( with Zenner diode, gee, the more I think about them, the more I remember;) and I am a BMW man:D"Horizontally Opposed & Shaft Driven":D R51/3 R50 R60 R69's loved the Bell's line of Road:D Bathurst for a Hamburger:angel:

cheers
12th December 2007, 10:12 PM
Redback

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Originally Posted by UncleHo

G'day Redback :)

Nice 59 big tank "Bone" with the Narcelle headlamp, generator model too, with the twin Amal Monoblock Carbies;) they just took a lot of stopping from 3 figures with that single leader front brake, :owell, the back one only put the stop light on.:D You could be right with the twin downtube being a 500, that would make it a 5T or 5TR, a little bit of a bitza I think, missing the tank badge (screw holes) no gennie (6V alternator pre unit) think the 500's were first with that,coil ign :( with Zenner diode, gee, the more I think about them, the more I remember;) and I am a BMW man:D"Horizontally Opposed & Shaft Driven":D R51/3 R50 R60 R69's loved the Bell's line of Road:D Bathurst for a Hamburger:angel:

cheers

OH yeah:thumbsup: done that untold times, i was a bit of a any bike will do person, but, i have a soft spot for my old K100 BMW, a very special bike in many ways:(

Old pacific hwy to Peats Ridge, then central mangrove to Wollombi and the Putty then home:TakeABow::BigThumb:

Baz.
12th December 2007, 10:23 PM
UncleHo

G'day Redback :)

Yeah, know what you mean,left a Keg at Deep Creek Narrabeen (to go to the Hamburger shop) and woke up(came to) in a cafe in Newcastle:eek: with the bike leaning in the gutter out of fuel :( and it was a loooonng ride back with a thumping head:o still have my 1955 R51/3 500 :D might get it from the parent's place and put it back on the road,stopped riding in Sydney when the shooting started in 78 moved to Qld in 82.

cheers
13th December 2007, 12:18 AM
Disco_owner

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Originally Posted by ROVERNIT

Nice bike :) Disco owner you thinking of buying one mate

oh no , as i was looking thru the Pentax 10D photos i saw photos of this bike, i was just admiring the bike in the War museum.
13th December 2007, 02:27 AM
worraps

i am far from knowlagable on bike however it seems to be teh same bike steve mcqueens chase in teh great excape number over front wheel also matches The German motorcycle from 'The Great Escape' acording to that and looks teh same is a triumph tt650 just my 2c worth

worraps
13th December 2007, 06:48 AM
Redback

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Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus

and a pint at the pub no doubt :D

Of coarse:D

Quote:

Originally Posted by worraps

i am far from knowlagable on bike however it seems to be teh same bike steve mcqueens chase in teh great excape number over front wheel also matches The German motorcycle from 'The Great Escape' acording to that and looks teh same is a triumph tt650 just my 2c worth

worraps

Same make, different bike though

Baz.
13th December 2007, 08:22 AM
Bigbjorn

Thunderbirds in the early 50's with sprung hub were the first with coil ignition ( and an SU carburettor). The bike pictured is from somewhere between the introduction of swinging arm rear suspension about 54-55 and the unit construction crankcase-gearbox casting in the sixties, forget the date. The aluminium head with the extended forward fins identify it as a 650 Tiger of that era. The first swinging arm T110's had an aluminium head without the extended fins, like a T100, and had a cadmium plated barrel or a (rare) aluminium barrel. I have a mate who still has the T110 he bought new from Morgan & Wacker then. Four guys from the same informal motor-cycle group took delkivery at the same time with consecutive number plates. Thunderbirds and Speed Twins had the cast iron head and barrel. Trophies had the separate headlamp, not the lamp in fairing. Don't know anything about specials that may have been produced to a British MOD specification, which, as common with Govt. tenders, were probably inclusive of a lot of strange and mostly unecessary items.
16th December 2007, 05:31 PM
95 Disco

Wata Triumph

I have an associate with whom I've had a little glass of lemonade on a Friday night for the last 20 plus years ... he's a Triumph tragic and has a dozen of so, all concourse. I asked him about the said Triumph and, to quote -

"This is a replica of the bike used by Steve McQueen in the Great Escape and was built for the Imperial War Museum in London for their 'Great Escapes' exhibition 2005/6.

Like the original, it is based on a 1960 to 62 Triumph. In this case, a 1961 T110. It uses the correct full width hub (unlike the original movie version, although the backup version had the full width hub) and a 4 gallon tank, not the three gallon tank used originally

Welcome to the world of rivet counting"

Apparently in the movie Steve McQueen (or his stunt double) took off on one model bike and landed on another model bike ... but you only know if count the rivets

Cheers,

Grant

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