Neil's Triton

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Rather than being a mixture of assembled parts, there is a real history behind this Triton. It's an authentic machine typical of those cafe racers built back in 60's England.

Freddie Copper built this particular Triton in 1960. Those who know Freddie will know that he was a famous rider during the John Surtess period. He often raced at Brands Hatch and he also raced in Sprint and Drag racing events. One of his notable achievements was beating the 200mph speed record, riding the Cyclotron with its double reversed engine.

The Cyclotron

The Tritons present owner Neil, was previously a DJ at the Ace cafe before leaving England to settle in the South of France.

The superb patina on this machine owes itself primarily to the authentic parts used. For example the small Lucas rear light, the Miller headlight, the John Tickle headlight brackets and triple trees and Manx clip ons. Dunstall mufflers and T120 9 stud cylinder head, rolling on Akront Alloy 18" wheel rims.

This fantastic Norton will be auctioned by Bixente Moto and Me Carayol on the 15th June during our Wheels and Waves weekend. Estimated value is between 7000 and 9000 euros.

Photgraphy by: Benoit Guerry

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The Lowboy Racer

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This machine was bought in England, build in the 70s from recovered racing spares.

Chassis

the frame, tank and seat comes from a DOMIRACER “ Lowboy” designed on demand by Doug Hele to replace the old Manx Frame, much lower, leaner and lighter than the Manx featherbed (35 pounds less) for the 1961 Tourist Trophy.

The DOMIRACER episode ended in 1962 by the shutdown of the AMC factory in Birmingham and the switch of Doug Hele for Triumph.








“In January 1962, when Norton sold out at Bracebridge Street, Birmingham, Paul DUNSTALL bought most of the experimental Domiracer twin engines and development bits and pieces that had been developed for the factory race team. This included the actual machine raced by Australian Tom Phillips to a magnificent third place in the 1961 Senior TT.”

Soon after Paul Dunstall will build some Lowboy replica frames.

Mick Hemmings built a small serie in 85/90s.

The fork is a shortened Norton Roadholder
front brake is a SEELEY double side single cam
rear wheel hub is a Triumph model

Engine

is a Pre Unit T100/RS from 1957, developped by Edward Turner for the Daytona races, based on the all alloy T100, and fitted with the DELTA (Splayed cylinder head) tuned in 1957 on TRICOR demand.

132 T100/RS plus seven Daytona engines were build and individually tested by Triumph factory.
Inside we find the camshaft E3134 type and the Pushrods “R” types.
Initially fitted with two GP Amal carbs , the output was around 38 Bhp and a maximum
speed at 125mph with a final drive at 23X45

The Triumph DAYTONA project will let place in 1962 to a T100 unit Triumph Daytona model with the arrival of Doug Hele at the Triumph factory.

this brillant engine was also fitted on Formula 500 Cooper racers.

The gearbox is a five speed Triumph and the Magneto a Lucas racing complete the equipment of the extremely pleasant small motorcycle of only 135kg










Brilliant photography by Benoit Guerry for Guerry & Prat images

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Reader Ride.

Jon sends in his former Triton.

He writes:


Built this a few years back - now sold and the new owner put it back to a 'standard' Triton, you know, Gold Star pipes and plain old 2 seater with a hump and he scrapped the fairing - oh well...


Cheers
Jon
(an Englishman living in Australia)

I'd have to see it now but it seems to me that this would be hard to improve on. If you know the new owner ask him to send in a current picture just for fun. Cheers!

Beautiful Triton.

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That front brake is totally cool...

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Speaks for itself really. Wow!

Triton Project

I built this Triton first time in 92, Wideline frame, Roadholder fork, Grimeca front brake, T120 Unit engine from 69. After completely disassembled for a total refurbishment, here now the new phase of assembly in white, I chose to make many aesthetic changes, including eliminating a maximum number of polished and chrome parts.
to be continued...