Customer Reviews

Triumph Motorcycle Restoration

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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!!

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.

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.

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.

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.