Tim from Mobtown Cycle over in Baltimore, MD sent these pictures over a couple weeks ago, and we dig it and wanted to share!
He also used some of our bungs and stainless steel strut kit, a P-Nut tank, a Monster Craftsman chain tensioner and some other cool bits putting this together.
Good job guys feel free to share next time you roll another motorcycle out!
Kyle Armstrong up in Canada sent us these pictures of his Lowbrow Cast Aluminum Solo Seat Pan which was heavily engraved by Heather New of “New Line Engraving”.
This is just amazing work and I can not wait to see it on the finished bike! Good work Heather and Kyle!
Figured it was time I sent you guys some pictures of my 71 Triumph. I brought this a non-runner about a year ago, as you can see it was rough looking but also had that rat look. (Pic below) I rode it around until the fall when the front fender decide it wanted to jam up on the tire. Did anyone remember the loc-tite?
Lucky I had my skid lid on and only broke a few things on me and nothing on the bike.(pic) I was out of action for the winter but no big deal.
I have a bunch of photos of the tear down and rebuild. But figured the before and after say enough. I could not have done this without you guys and your great web site and gear you sale.
This is my first bike project. In the past I have always messed with cars. 1940-1960
Eddie & Eddies Speed Shop opened one Sunday afternoon in 1989 back in England, my brother and I had a few drinks and decide my 1959 Austin Pick-up would look a lot better flat back and scalloped. We achieved this in a couple of hours with a roller and a couple of paint brushes. We went on and built a bunch of ratish rods and had fun.
I have been in the US for 17 years and the Triumph here is the first project out of the US operation of Eddie & Eddies.
Some detail on the bike;
It’s a 1969 Tiger frame with a 71 T120 Bonneville engine.
From the happy pages of Lowbrow customers it has the following: 29 tail light, Repo OEM gas Tank, Ribbed rear fender, Grips, Leavers, Biltwell Seat, Biltwell Bars, Bench Mark kicker pedal. Peg rubbers, and more.
In addition some homemade fender mounts and a great looking Coker White wall on the back. Keep up the great work and all the best on the salt this summer.
All the best, Sean Hatherley
From Nick: Hey Tyler and Kyle, Just wanted to send a few pics of my 1967 TR6R, as you and your site were incredibly instrumental in the completion of this Brooklyn stomper.
Gotta give a big shout to Dennis and Steve over at TT Cycles in Berkeley Heights for taking me under their wing and helping fab out the tail section and mounting the springer. Too many Lowbrow parts to count, from the fuel lines to the bars, you guys have been kick ass! New York’s own Hugh Mackie helped me get the motor squared away while Dave Perewitz nailed the paint. 
Next project up is a chopped T100 bar hopper. Got a beer in one hand and my Wes White DVDs in the other! Say goodbye to that swing arm! 
BTW your posts and DIY tips have been invaluable! 
Here's what Adam has to say:
Im thinking of running the CB tank, as I love the profile and I found it on the side of Rt.102 in someones trash pile. I dig the look of the aluminum drag bars, simple controls and skinny headlight up front. All of the fab work has been completed by myself in my limited spare time at my home shop here in the 603. This includes all of the bracketry, electrical/battery box, oil filter set-up, fender mounts and so on.
Hard sayin' when it will all get finished...Probably just in time to change it up again.
John sent us these pictures and write up on his bike, pretty crazy stuff! Check it out and keep 'em coming!
I bought this bike a few year ago for 250.00 in a box. the only thing i kept was the frame and engine. i hand made everything else . the cylder head is reversed. i got the idea when i was a kid going to the dragstrip with my father i remember seeing triumph drag bikes and some of them had reversed heads. 
i built the girder front end and reversed the forks to give it that frankenstien look .the frame is about 3/4" lower in the front i feel it gives it a more agressive look. the air cleaners are from some old drain trapps i striped the chrome off. the alum. brackets were cut out on the bandsaw an shaped with a file . i had some guy at a bike show try telling me they were made on a cnc machine i told him how do you think things were made before cnc machines. some guy dont understand things can be made with a good plan and hard work.
the really cool thing about this bike is including purchase of the bike, i have just uder 1000.00 in the build. got most of the materials from a scrape yard, lot cheaper than buying from a steel sales place.but i have a ton of hours in the build kept changing my mine as i was building it to get the look i was after. i did everything on it myself including paint. thats about it. i hope you guys like it . I really do like the products you guys put out, they stand alone and that says alot about you guys.
I have a bicycle shop here in (Ontario) Canada, and have been wrenching and building all sorts of bicycles for the past couple decades. Having also ridden motorcycle most of my life, I started to really dig older Triumphs over the last 5 or 6 years. After finding The Horse B.C., I started thinking how much fun it would be to try to build something Triumph based here at the bicycle shop, just to see if I could do it. I bought a bone stock OIF Tiger to use as a donor bike, but when I got it home my father-in-law and his buddies told me very directly that it was “too nice to cut”, so I ended up riding around on it for a couple years, learning the ins and outs of vintage Triumph ownership. On went the search for something to start my build with. Finally, after much searching, talking, and bemoaning the lack of suitable project bikes, my father-in-law opened the doors to his cellar, where low and behold there laid (on it’s side) a ’76 T140V engine, complete, but half submerged under the water of a flooded basement, along with forks and a front wheel from a ’68 T100. It was Dec. 30th, my birthday, and this was his Christmas/birthday/get-out-of-
Over the course of the next year, I dragged the parts to my shop, and with the help of the Wes White/Four Aces engine rebuild DVD, I stripped the motor, split the cases and rebuilt the motor from the sludge trap up. My crank was stuck in the left side case and had to be removed with a press. I had the crank’s bearing journals inspected and installed new bearings and seals top to bottom, a .040 over bore, new pistons, rings, valves and guides, had the cases media blasted and the head decarbonized and media blasted. I removed the old exhaust lugs and had new alloy flanges welded in. At the same time we welded a broken fin on the jugs, polished all the covers, thoroughly cleaned and rebuilt the carbs, installed new brass “thumb screw” type air and idle adjusters, and added some screened velocity stacks. I rebuilt the transmission, stepped the drive sprocket up 2 teeth and found a primary cover that wasn’t cracked (as bad) and finished everything off with all new gaskets under the side covers and some fresh Brad Penn 20/50 and Bardahl 90wt gear oil.
While I was rebuilding the motor, I took some measurements from my stock Tiger and drew it out on some graph paper. Using my daughter’s protractor set, I modified the drawing to resemble the image I had of the finished bike. A 4” drop, 6” stretch and a few more (10, actually) degrees in the headtube angle brought the drawing closer to what I had in mind, so with drawing in hand, and some example pics I found on the interweb, I mad my way to my friend Grant Schwartz’s to discuss a scratch built frame. Grant owns Schwartz Welding Inc. in Bloomingdale, Ontario, and is a good friend to have in situations like these. He made some additional changes to my drawing and proceeded to bend some tube. I used an old T120 motor with a busted rod and cracked cases to mock up the motor mounts in the newly assembled frame, and found a tank and seat at a swap meet that would suit the rest of the bike. Grant t modified some T.T. pipes I had to fit under the engine and before long we had a good looking mock up. I went on to find a couple Triumph wheels to use, and we had a roller. I then stripped the wheels apart, sanded and polished the hubs, rebuilt the brakes, installed new wheel bearings, had the rims powdercoated and ordered some new stainless spokes to finish them up. Having built more than my share of bicycle wheels, I was confident that I could build myself some nice wheels, and an evening and several beers later, I had a sweet set.
A week of wiring, using 5 colors and a diagram I found on Jockey Journal, and I was ready to do a final wiring harness using some vintage look cloth wiring. I picked up a 6 fuse block from princess auto and modified it to fit under my tank. I installed a MK III Boyer, timed it with help from Four Aces’ “Triumph 101” DVD, added some bakelight NGK plug caps and more cloth covered plug wire, and all of a sudden it was Dec. 30th, my birthday. I dragged the finished project over to my father-in-law’s shop around noon on Dec. 30th; I put some gas in the tank, primed my carbs and held my breath. With they key off I gave it 3 or 4 good primer kicks just to get everything pumped through a bit. I switched the ignition to “On” I gave it a kick. On the first kick I got kicked back with compression. On the second kick the bike roared to life with glorious cacophony. With a bit of carb and timing adjustment, I had finished my first custom build. One week later I had organized a display for our club, the Canadian Vintage Motorcycle Group, at the North American Supershow in Toronto, Ontario. It is a 425,000 sq/ft show that is the highlight of winter for us up here in 3 feet of snow. Some friends prodded and prodded until I gave in and entered my bike in the Level 2 (amateur) show class. We had a great weekend manning our booth and talking to the (literally) thousands of people that filed past our booth. I felt great, getting nothing but positive feedback about my bike and some of the details I included in the build. Sunday came all to fast, and before I knew it I was standing at the edge of the stage, listening to the different categories being awarded. Around came the award for Level 2 “Best Triumph”. I waited as they awarded 3rd Place, then 2nd Place, then I unbelievably heard my name being called out for 1st Place, “Best Triumph”. The weekend had ended unbelievably. This brings us to Wednesday, January 12th, 2011, 3 days after one of the greatest weekends of my life.
Well, that’s about it guys. If you made it all the way through this, thanks for reading, and I hope this can motivate/inspire/prod some of you on to jump in and build a bike.
Thanks again,
Andy Cox
Please find attached some photos of my recently completed 1964 6T Triumph 650cc Bobber. Fitted with twin carby head. Many new part were purchased from Lowbrow Customs, including a Joe Hunt Magneto, a 4” stretched 2” lowered David Bird Hard tail, 1 of your oil tanks, a rear mud guard, a Groovy handle bars, not shown in the photos, number plate holder and reproduction ford tail light, Chain, and numerous small bits and pieces. 
I am 61 years young and own a Honda VTX 1300. I also have a restored 76 Bonneville and an almost completely restored 1970 Bonny. I just recently married a 45 year old biker bird, who owns a Suzuki 1400 Intruder. But we won’t hold that against her. In our spare time we like to travel on the bikes to near by cities. The closest big city is 300miles away. We are both members of the Ulysses Club. The Ulysses club is a club for over 40’s who like to ride motorcycles. The next major ride is to the Ulysses annual general meeting which is to be held in Newcastle, NSW. An 800 mile ride for us, about 12 hrs riding spread over a couple of days. For many years I have envied those who own a Bonny. Now I have the best of both worlds, thanks to team at Lowbrow Customs and the Magazines Dice and Greasy Kulture. All the best for your future land speed attempts I will be watching with interest. Thank you Lowbrow for your support. Regards Peter Rawlins, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Alberto from Mexico City sent us these pics of his 1961 Triumph project, what a great looking bike! We always love to see what you guys are doing with all the parts we send you, keep the pictures coming in! Cheers, Kyle
Our friend Arturo in Italy sent us these pics of his friends Norton chopper. I thought it was pretty cool, it's rare to see a Norton chop even here in the states!
Check out the pics Craig from WV sent in to us. Very clean classic lines! Glad to see some US customers sending us in some build pics for a change!
Christian from Switzerland sent in the photos of his badass Shovlhead. I am diggin the hell out of the yellow headlight and those pipes. Keep the pics coming in, we love to see your chops and projects!
Adam from the UK sent these pics of his freshly finished bobber for us to check out since he was running a few of our parts. Lookin good man!
Jeff from VA sent me this picture of his unit motor on the dining room table. That's a hell of a pretty centerpiece if you ask me! Martha Stewart's got nothing on that! I see a few familiar parts there too. Good work man, send a picture once it's in a frame!
After a lengthy wait due to customs Niclas in Sweden finally got his 7Metal West fender painted and mounted it up! I love this bike, and it looks like Ohio and Sweden have the same kind of weather!
Looks like Hoss got his bike just in time for the International Motorcycle Show here in Cleveland end of the month! I will have to make sure and come check it out!
