Triumph Motorcycle Restoration [Paperback]

Timothy Remus (Author), Garry Chitwood (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2007

 As popular as the Triumph Twins were in the 60s and 70s, they are quite possibly more popular now. The new book from Wolfgang Publications offers complete start-to-finish assembly and restoration sequences on two Triumph Twins, a 1963 Bonneville and a 1969 Bonniville. Also included is the start-to-finish assembly of the 1969 engine and transmission. Rather than try to describe the miniscule differences that often separated one year from another, this book offers a color gallery with left and right side views of all significant models from 1959 to 1983. With over 450 color photos, How To Restore Your Triumph offers 144 pages of hard-core how-to help for anyone who wants to repair or restore their own Triumph twin.

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Book Description

As popular as the Triumph Twins were in the 60s and 70s, they are quite possibly more popular now. The new book from Wolfgang Publications offers complete start-to-finish assembly and restoration sequences on two Triumph Twins, a 1963 Bonneville and a 1969 Bonniville. Also included is the start-to-finish assembly of the 1969 engine and transmission. Rather than try to describe the miniscule differences that often seperated one year from another, this book offers a color gallery with left and right side views of all significant models from 1959 to 1983. With over 450 color photos, How To Restore Your Triumph offers 144 pages of hard-core how-to help for anyone who wants to repair or restore their own Triumph twin.

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.

 

 

 

 

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Wolfgang Publications, Inc. (November 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1929133421
• ISBN-13: 978-1929133420
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #376,488 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Nice pictures, January 31, 2008

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Kicking in Portland "Kicking in Portland" (portland,or) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Triumph Motorcycle Restoration (Paperback)

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!!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Triumph Motorcycle Restoration, September 27, 2010

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Dave Sheehan - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Triumph Motorcycle Restoration (Paperback)

I'm with Steven Karp on this book: its clear pictures and no-nonsense text helps make sense of the stilted prose and muddy B&W photos of other manuals. Whilst Remus and Chitwood's focus is on the T120, I found it invaluable trying to decipher the pics in Haynes manuals when working on my T140. I thought the photographs of component parts particularly helpful. This is a book that not only gave me a benchmark for rebuilding to which I can only dream to aspire, but it gives you clear colour pics illustrating the steps to take to get there. It doesn't replace your workshop manual, or those DVDs showing you how to strip down your motor - but then it doesn't purport to. However, it's a great companion piece, especially if, like me, you're attempting a rebuild from a box of bits and have to scour magazines and books to see where a component goes because you didn't tear the bike down yourself so don't have a record of its strip-down, and aren't so well off as to have a complete example to hand to compare it against - and Remus and Chitwood's book is very readable to boot.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Triumph Bonneville strip and rebuild, March 2, 2010

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Alan Timmins (Southern England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Triumph Motorcycle Restoration (Paperback)

Excellent book with clear and useful photos taking you through a Bonneville strip and rebuild. The text is easy to follow with some good explanations and helpful detail. They do bang on a bit about replacing every used part with 'original' parts but they are not always available (or reasonably priced) so you have to apply a big 'pinch of salt' in places.

All in all this is a highly recommended book and I'm sure that Triumph enthusiasts will feel it is good value for money.