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Looks like the Tohatsu is a hardtail and just a sprung seat. compared with the DKW it was copied from / To me the DKW looks to be a far better bike all round. But I will be the first to admit All I really know is wood and hammers.   555

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32 minutes ago, Justgrazing said:

Looks like it's detached from the barrel .. look just behind the kickstart ..

So that's not an injector pump....

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6 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

'56 Tohatsu 125 and a '54 DKW RT125 .. spot the difference .. 

 

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Or the humble BSA D1 Bantam ,also a copy of the DKW RT125 , a spoils of war. 

This one I would say  is missing the front forks gaters .

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Another Z1 I hear you say .. but take a closer look and it's a 6 cyl 1350 cc courtesy of Master modifier Al Millyard .. as you might expect it looks just like a factory made job .. 

 

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2 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

Another Z1 I hear you say .. but take a closer look and it's a 6 cyl 1350 cc courtesy of Master modifier Al Millyard .. as you might expect it looks just like a factory made job .. 

 

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... and you can follow the complete construction of this engine, and lots more, on his YouTube channel -

 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj4hbNBjmdvXONmcxcLSNhg 

 

Great stuff.  

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And his V12 Kawasaki .. not a big fan of these me , too gross and heavy but you can only admire how he's managed to get two complete engines in and still make it look like it came out of a showroom .. 

 

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A M is known for enlarging bike engines but here's one where he's taken some away .. Kawa 500 twin .. looking at the size of the barrels and heads it uses the two outside ones off a 750 .. again looks like it came from the factory like that .. 

His tribute also to Honda's screaming 6 cyl racers of the 60's .. 

 

 

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19 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

Late 50's Triumph's dinky 200 2 stroke twin .. never went into production as far as I'm aware .. 

 

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Capture.PNG.268fc782440518715d30c3107a3b632e.PNG Another Triumph prototype,the TS81 at the time 1981,BMW had just released they R100RT, boxer a uprated version of their  other twins ,and it sold, Triumph looked at and thought we could do that, they  put on  some upgrades  main one a Westlake developed  8 valve head  on the twin engine ,a way to increase performance without major,  re expensive, work below the barrels.

It was shown at Earls Court show ,Triumph needed 50 buyers to make it viable for a production run ,but with big problems at the factory ,at the time it never got past the prototype stage .like a lot of Triumph prototype's at the time .

Looking at that gear change and where it is ,it looks like down change to go up a gear .like some AMC boxes.  

 

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Another "what might have been" from Triumph.  The tidy looking Bandit 350, the last project started by Edward Turner before his retirement. A BSA variant, called the Fury, was also planned.

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12 prototypes were built in 1971, but, despite a US magazine giving them a good review, concluding that Triumph would 'sell all they can crank out in the next 12 months', the project was ended after troubles at the factory.  800 production frames, and numerous components, were produced and all failed the company's internal QC process due to poor workmanship.  Only 5 working models survive.

 

Poor workmanship?  Might be time for that photo again:

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5 hours ago, ballpoint said:

Another "what might have been" from Triumph.  The tidy looking Bandit 350, the last project started by Edward Turner before his retirement. A BSA variant, called the Fury, was also planned

Is this top bike part of the same project .? It has what looks like a more sloped forward engine and the general lines look cleaner almost like it's a different model again .. Good looking bike what ever it is .. 

 

One beneath is sporting a Triumph badge but ain't no Triumph I recognise or is it someone make believing .. any ideas .?

 

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36 minutes ago, Justgrazing said:

Is this top bike part of the same project .? It has what looks like a more sloped forward engine and the general lines look cleaner almost like it's a different model again .. Good looking bike what ever it is .. 

 

One beneath is sporting a Triumph badge but ain't no Triumph I recognise or is it someone make believing .. any ideas .?

 

 

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German Triumph (TWN)  http://www.autogallery.org.ru/mtriumph.htm  

Possibly a Triumph Boss circa 1954.  https://cybermotorcycle.com/euro/brands/triumph-twn.htm 

Triumph - TWN Motorcycles  Manufactured in Germany 1903-1957

Triumph TWN History

A native of Germany, Siegfried Bettmann founded the Triumph factory in Coventry in 1886 where he built bicycles. A decade later he built another Triumph factory in his home town of Nurnberg. The English factory built its first motorcycles in 1902 with the German plant following in 1903.

 

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