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hi brothers
if any of you have read my comments on the yankee tractor made in milwakee you might have found that i dont really like them
well i got one
a 2002 sporty with front wheel damage the last owner does not know how to ride and hit a car so he got scared and sold it to me
2 grand UK pounds and i just got a wheel for it already for £100
my excuse for this weakness in the make well my wife wont ride my trumpet or anything else so a sporty it is
hope it last longer than her last sporty which i blew the motor for her
oh well back to nuts and bolts
i'll post a pic soon

Man, you gotta think about a different wife, with her attitude. Plan "B", the next time she needs a bike, stick a harley sticker on it and tell her it's a HD. 5 bucks says she won't know the difference! (Just humor, no intention of personal slight!)(See old previous post, "harley girl story".)

The price was good. Rather like the 6 month old Velocette I bought very cheap because the original owner didn't know how to start it.

Got a few Triumphs because people couldn't fix or time them.

Nothing wrong with having a collection of bikes. And if one was to have a collection, then it goes without saying that there should be a Harley or two in it.

You will just have to explain to your good lady wife that bike collections must be allowed to grow.

and grow, and grow, and grow

I'm shocked! A Hardly nerd Selling his bike he had no business buying any way.

well she has had a sporty before and a duke monster
but she says the trumpet is to wide and she likes the vibes of the v twin
she wont ride pillion cos i'm to crazy
i think she would know the differance between a v twin yank and a v twin from the land of rice burners
anyway got a second hand wheel for the front just gotta get the tractor home fit it ride it and clean the rust of it as it has a lot of chrome sh-t stuck to it
hopefully i'll sort her out a nice ride and hey i can go to triumph open days, hog rallies, and open rallies
by the way FARO 08 is on in july ant one want to meet there

Triumph too wide?! Never sat on a girls bike but any shovel or pan I ever sat on was as wide or wider.

Ya know I have been a biker my whole life and among real bikers the knocking is in jest. You get the clueless here and there but for the most part Triumphs are welcomed and in many cases admired at HD oriented events and I do like Hardleys if the truth be known, just not my bike of choice. It is the bike of choice for most of my friends and they have had some nice ones. One of my 1%er friends even said he would ride my BMW and likes it. For the most part any cool old bike is OK. But it has always ,from what I have seen,been a mix of Hardley,Trumpet,Beezer,Snortin Norton,Vincent, and very few AJS,Matchless,Ariel etc.. (frinds don't let friends ride rice.

yeh dog 33 you are correct some are clueless
i like you am a biker all my life and so are most of my family members past and present
i was also a back patch holder in the local 1%er club
i have ridden yamaha RD, Gpz900r, amonst others then i saw the light and bought the speed triple, and coz of my back i got the bonnie america, i really like it but my wife was 50 last year and i promised her a bike
the sporty is a narrow bike compared to the ones you mentioned
its a nice project i'll sort her out with a nice bike in the end i hope
and if not i can use it to rotavate my garden, it is a tractor after all
one cool thing is if i go out with my missus on the sporty i can drink as much as i like as she can ride it back to base with me on tow LOL

Too bad you weren't local I saw an complete front end at a farm show. Trees,legs,21"wheel ,caliper,and fender. No handle bars or anything from the bars. $400. Not sure if he still has it I gave the guys number to a friend who is building a pan. Was a narrow sporty front end but he doesn't have much cash and a narrow can be made wide with new trees and wheel spacers.

well i got it home on the back of my cuzs trailer
started taking all that live to ride chrome cr-p of her and she needs work but she seems to be all there just some good cleaning and tiding up
ofcourse the front wheel i have a new one and fork legs
a mate has triple trees if i need it
i also think i'll need new bars
but the engine sounds healty enough and my cuz (whos no expert as he rides a virago) said that its a great buy for the money i got her at
lets see how it goes i'll post pics when the photopost is up and running

you are right grey beard
i actually commented to my cuz
why not trailer our bikes to faro week and wear T-shirts saying I TRAILERED MY BIKE TO FARO 08
the reason for this is the front wheel is buckled beyond repair
by the way taking off all the chome covers on the sportster was 10 kilos of weight saved
that was including the crash bars and highway pegs
still have some more to come of
i reckon 12 to 14 kilos will be lost on my anorexic diet i have her on
and easily 10 to 15 kph more top end (well maybe not)
one thing i am finding hard to get used to is this non metric cr-p 5/8th this 2/16th that
does my head in and rounds my nuts and bolts
which means more expense on bits i didnt need
oh well we shall plug on

Yup, there's an old saying that less weight = free horsepower.
The nice thing is you might be able to sell some of that stuff and buy even more power.

I have the opposite problem, trying to remember if 1/2 inch is 12 or 13. I think 14 is 9/16, but not sure of that. I do better with Whitworth sizes.

cannot sell all that chrome cos its not chrome anymore its rust the only thing i can keep as it has no rust is the oil tank cover
on the metric bolts aparently the risers are 8mm allen bolts but the heads are imperial or yank or sumthin
i got new grips and flashers today and an old mate from my outlaw days has a press he is gonna try straighten the forks
also found another mate on a sportster who got it a month ago for £2750 with 3150 kilometers and is in mint condition
bast-rd
i would have got that one but hey first come first served
well this weekend i'm stripping the forks and well more chrome cr-p
happy easter

project tractor up-date
wheel £100
fender front 20 euros
pegs 10 euros
forks 210 euros
tyre on new wheel 20 euros
around 300 quid spent so far and when the bits are fitted she will be rideable
just gotta get forks out clean them polish them and fit with the new tubes
paint the disc and fender coz the front fender is yella
and i might get some nearly new switches in black to replace the crap chrome ones and yokes (triple trees for our yank friends) which my mate wants £35 for
hopefully less than £500 thats what i budget for this build just to get her road worthy
so far so good
i should be riding it within the next month
saying that i still have ole faithfull bonnie so i'm not bothered
from what the word is out there i could get rid of it for £4000 as they hold there value around these parts
thats £1500 profit makes me think not bad for a few afternoons in the sun with my cuz havin a beer or two wrenching on the bike
oh i've had to buy new tools like torques and imperial spanners and allen keys
they will go into the tool roll as i will need them on the road for sure
will keep you posted on the progress

Tools are always a good investment anyway. I wouldn't count them in the cost.

yep you are correct
i seem to have a good collection of tools just not the right ones
i have not counted the tools just parts and labour but not my labour just shop labour cost which isn't bad as i'm doing most of the wrenching myself
scratch brushed the disc and she is nice and clean now ready for black paint and got quoted £30 to paint and fill the holes in the fender
hopefully next thursday i can fit the forks an shes ready to go