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bazzee said:
A Rob North framed Trident would be a bit more involved, I'm not sure it would be practical for the street. Although I'm sure it's been tried.

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bazzee
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Although a Rob North Trident would be very cool ........ there is another Rob North Triple that I wish I knew the end result of as it looks feckin awesome and I think would trump anything with a Triumph motor.

Jim

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bazzee said:
While we're indulging in hindsight... a factory Slippery Sam replica would have been an easy winner, I imagine the appropriate parts would all have been available ex factory. Oil leaks provided FOC.

A Rob North framed Trident would be a bit more involved, I'm not sure it would be practical for the street. Although I'm sure it's been tried.

cheers,

bazzee
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A production line triple styled like Sam would have been nice .......... Although to be a true replica it would need a special frame ....... Triumph tweeked the standard frame to provide Sam with an extra 40 mm of ground clearance ......... Not cheating obviously !!!!!!! ...... as they produced a batch of 40 so that they could say it was a " production " frame .......... a couple of favoured customers / race teams were allocated one , no one else ..... ........

A lightened Reynolds 531 tubed frame , based around the original design , was used from `72 onwards ........ In final , five victories in a row trim , Sam was making 75 bhp to push along 182 kg ............ compared a standard triples 58 bhp and 220 kg ....... Not much chance of 75 bhp / 182 kg with a production line bike , but the styling would have appealed , as you say .............
 
helicopterjim said:
Although a Rob North Trident would be very cool ........ there is another Rob North Triple that I wish I knew the end result of as it looks feckin awesome and I think would trump anything with a Triumph motor.

Jim

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Way cool. In 2010 …… with that wide back wheel, they’d be awaiting 10 years or so, for one of Reds outriggers. Didn’t he come up with that in 2020ish?
 
Richard 180.S2.81 said:
Somebody back in the early 1980's used to sell rob North frame/tank/fairing kits the for road going Trident triple and Bonneville twin. I always wanted one however they were expensive.
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That may have been Anglo Bike , based at Beenham in Berkshire , England ................. The chap who ran the business went by the name of Peter Frost , I think ............... In a magazine article around that time , the writer went to a Laverda Club trackday with one of their Tridents .............. He said the Anglo Bike couldn`t quite keep up with the " fast wops " on the track , although someone there was suitably impressed enough to offer a straight swop for his Jota ....

There was another different article once about " dealing with dealers " ......... Which mentioned Anglo Bikes carrying out some engine work / hop up / tuning , on a standard T120 ........ Customer involved wasn`t happy as motor seized or went bang or something after a few hundred miles ....... In their defence Anglo Bike said they informed said customer that they thought the T120 had many more miles on it than appeared , and were not sure the state of tune he wanted would be a good idea , but he insisted that was what he wanted ..... so ................

The Anglo Bike Rob North - a - like Tridents had basically standard triple engines in most cases I believe ....... I have a road test of one somewhere , and performance figures are a slight ( but not much ) improvement on what you might expect from a well looked after standard bike .......

This makes me wonder about the Anglo Bikes frames , and whether they were direct copies ( with permission ? ) of the Rob North frames ....... Stan Shenton of Boyer of Bromley did actually acquire the rights for the Rob North frames in 1973 ........ Other people such as Martin Russell , and Peckett and McNab , produced frames which " incorporated " certain aspects of the North frames into the ones they produced ........ Maybe the Anglo Bike frames fell into the same category ................. Not sure what the position is today with producing copies .................. I think there is a company called Trident MCS in the West Midlands who have the rights to produce them ....... Rob North himself moved to California , not sure if he is still in business over there .........
 
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There was a sporty bodywork kit for triples and twin Triumphs that Norman Hyde does that I really liked, I told a mate who started laughing. I asked why he was laughing and he said because that kit made those bikes look very LAVERDA LIKE.
 
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"Way cool. In 2010 …… with that wide back wheel, they’d be awaiting 10 years or so, for one of Reds outriggers. Didn’t he come up with that in 2020ish?"

From how I understand it, Red's out rigger bearing set up had nothing to do with spacing the chain out to allow the fitting of a wider rear tyre, rather just a support for the end of the primary sprocket spline.
 
motoddrob said:
"Way cool. In 2010 …… with that wide back wheel, they’d be awaiting 10 years or so, for one of Reds outriggers. Didn’t he come up with that in 2020ish?"

From how I understand it, Red's out rigger bearing set up had nothing to do with spacing the chain out to allow the fitting of a wider rear tyre, rather just a support for the end of the primary sprocket
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Ah fuck, how many times can I be wrong in one month???
 
motoddrob said:
"Way cool. In 2010 …… with that wide back wheel, they’d be awaiting 10 years or so, for one of Reds outriggers. Didn’t he come up with that in 2020ish?"

From how I understand it, Red's out rigger bearing set up had nothing to do with spacing the chain out to allow the fitting of a wider rear tyre, rather just a support for the end of the primary sprocket spline.
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Yes, same for Gijs' set up.
Peter Williams did the same on his Commando based racers, the primary shaft was flexing.
Paul
 
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