Building Budget Brits: A Practical Guide for Refurbishing BSA and Triumph Unit Twins

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Item # MB-13622  ISBN: 9781884313622




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This enjoyable, information-filled book provides a detailed roadmap for rebuilding and restoring unit-construction Triumph and BSA twins without having to mortgage your house.

The book is organized as you would a rebuilding project, starting with selecting a bike to work on and finally bringing all the pieces together to ride.

It contains the practical, down-to-earth guidance you wish the factory manuals had, but don't. Brown passes along tips, shortcuts, and money-saving advice he has acquired over a span of 20 years working with British motorcycles.

As an amateur builder himself, he understands that you may not have the expensive tools and equipment found in professional shops. Yet Brown offers many practical, clever ways to do the job without spending a fortune or sacrificing quality.

Every aspect of refurbishing unit-construction British twins is covered: engine work, transmissions, frame repairs, shocks and forks, brakes, tanks, and those pesky Amal carbs and Lucas electrical systems.

Whether you want to build a concours quality restoration or just put a reliable, good-looking British bike on the road, you will find plenty of helpful information in this book, much of which is not found in any other book or manual on British bikes.

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgments
• Your Brain: The Most Important Tool
• Column A or Column B: BSA or Triumph Twin?
• Finding Budget Projects and Parts
• Keepin' it Legal
• Teardown
• Taking it Off
• What's Worn, What Ain't, and What to do Ya Ain't Sure
• Taming the Prince of Darkness
• Ahh... Fork It!
• Wheel Building
• Shocking Revelations
• Tanks a Lot
• Those Anal Amals: Bringing the Concentric Carburetor Back to Life
• Them's the Brakes
• Frame Up
• Hidden Assets: Seat Restoration
• Learning Brit Twin Engine and Transmission Restoration
• Crank Strip and Rebuild
• Building the A50/65 Lower End
• Triumph Lower End
• Shifty Business
• Heads, You Win
• Top it Off
• Putting it All Together
• Index
• Resources

About the Author:

Mike Brown has been writing technical columns for Bike Journal and Walneck's Cycle Trader for many years.

Building Budget Brits: A Practical Guide for Refurbishing BSA and Triumph Unit Twins