NEW PRODUCTS

Tim — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:38:28 -0700

New Book Our ambitious schedule for this fall includes another Triumph book. This one, Triumph Restoration, focuses on the restoration of the 650cc unit twins produced between 1963 and 1970. The book grew out of conversations with Bobby Sullivan, long-time friend and collector or many, many very nicely restored Triumph Twins. Most of Bobby's bikes are repaired and restored by a certain Mr. Gary Chitwood, and it's Mr. Chitwood who I managed to talk into co-authoring this book. While some restoration manuals resemble black and white text books, with detailed text descriptions of the changes that occurred year by year, I've taken a different approach with this new book. In place of simple line drawings, we've chosen to give the reader detailed photos of two complete bike assemblies (a 1963 and a 1969) and one complete engine assembly (the 1963), using a wealth of color photographs. The photographs were taken during an earlier road trip, when Gary, Ryan Bisset and Bobby put together the two bikes and one engine. Though I'm responsible for the photos, the copy and captions are written by the guys who did the actual assemblies. To cover the differences between the various years, we've decided to provide the reader with left and right side views of all the significant 650cc models from 1959 to 1970. Look for Triumph Restoration sometime this fall.