1901 Prototype - the oldest Triumph motorcycle in the world - overview & ride
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- In this video our friend Dick Shepherd shows us around his 1901 Triumph 172cc Prototype. This bike is the oldest known Triumph in the world. Dick is a very well known Triumph collector and recently restored this bike to the condition you see here.
Location for this video is the Triumph Factory Visitor Experience centre in Hinckley, UK.
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Triumph for allowing us to film at their factory on the day.
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Dick Shepherd for bringing his bike along and his time filming with us on the day.
John Oakes for taking the time to film with us on the day.
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Dom Harris, Sahra Lewis and Andy Murphy from Performance Communications for arranging the day.
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Libby McLaren and Matt from Triumph for taking the time to film with us on the day and sending us their photos to use in our video.
Claire from Clickers Photography for taking the behind he scenes photos on the day.
Website: www.clickersphotography.co.uk
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"Was it difficult to restore?" "Oh not really I'm an engineer by trade ... came up with a spring & sorted out pressure for this valve ..cooked up these fluids to use as fuel .. you see the carburetor is built into the bottom of this tank then there's this little tube .. adjust drip here to keep up to this level .. and then adjust...." Right, so simple a cave man could do it. How you ever got this bike running again is truly impressive. I'm forwarding this vid to my cousin who works building satellites in Silicon Valley, CA, of course he'll appreciate it. By the way I visited the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum in Birmingham, Alabama a couple days ago. If not for the few rare guys like Dick Shepard and y'all the rest of us would never get to share this terrific experience. Thank you for posting this vid.
What a treasure to have preserved.
Magnificent machine. Dick Shepherd is a Triumph Ambassador. Only he would have one of those. Awesome.
Really interesting , fuel mixture setup was particularly fascinating. Thanks for taking the time to show us the engineering detail of the bike.
Dick Shepherd is a fountain of knowledge on all classic Triumph motorcycles. Most of the bikes in Triumph's museum are owned and restored by him. Was lucky enough to have a personal tour of all the bikes by Dick himself. Looking forward to this weekend's evening at Triumph for the second 1901 evening. One or two tickets still available
What a great bike.....and a great job explaining how the bike works...which is hard to find anyone to do....GREAT BIKE, GREAT JOB.
Fantastic, nice that you went into the engineering and operation in some depth.
Wow magnificent piece of engineering and all complete, unbelievable,so cool.
Part of the beautiful bike history
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what a great video fantastic
Incredible!
A really fantastic survivor with all the original bits, how lucky that they survived. What an enormous amount of skill and time must have gone into the project. I do have one criticism though, it now looks like a brand new bike and not a 120 year old one, I'd have preferred to see some of the rust and chipped and time worn paint left to provide a bit of patina. I have two classic vehicles, a 1958 Sprite that had to be repainted due to the amount of bodywork repair, although it's now perfect it looks completely wrong. My other car a 1937 A7 has about 30 shades of blue paint on it and looks much better for it. This is just my opinion though, each to his own.
Nice!
Amazing👌
Looks like fun.
Very impressive!
Amazing survival!
Too cool.
Wonderful find - the band brake would work better if you assembled it in the reverse direction (pulling over the top of the pulley). Prove it by pushing forewards and backwards with the brake applied.
On your fuel we run our service carburettors on some stuff called SPb2 It’s rather expensive but it runs very very well we run our Benz And other Service carburettor engines Looks lovely have fun.
Michael
Not so sure about all original !! But an excellent machine non the less ,
Regards
Partsmade
Any pre restored photos please No found in this condition
Very similar to a dedion bouton trike . Which came first ?
would love to know what that original fuel was
This lovley machine would of cost around £13,000 in todays money, and that is still an awful lot of money, for the majority of us
Great video! Can you please do a video on the remake of the first royal enfield
35 mph? I think he meant 3.5 mph lol
Triumph does not manufacture bikes in the UK any more not a British bike. Scandalous
is anything made here anymore
@@shingerz Something must be our exports post Brexit are down 14% so more will go offshore to the EU or Far East. Still never mind we knew what we were voting for!
@@nickohare7187 I know but most was gone before this ,you could write a book on british company's relocated abroad especially where I'm from in the potteries
While most Triumphs are indeed made in Thailand these days, they do actually still build bikes at the Hinckley factory. The Rocket 3 and the TFC series for example I know are still made there.
@@PhilipBeresford that's good for hinckley then 👍
Think I'd rather take the bus!
Janice where's your sense of adventure 🤔