Moving on

With the bike stripped of its fairing and headlight I had to buy in a bracket for the speed triple headlights. Thanks to ebay.de (Germany) and Craigy B, my foreign financier (rather than getting hit with a transaction bill from the bank of £25), who buys the items and then I send him the cash, I was able to get the headlight mounts.
Once they were back in Blighty it turns out that the headstock of a speed triple and the one fitted to my Duke, are not the same and have different spacings and sizes of bolts.



For this I needed a cunning plan. I went to see the helpful chaps in http://www.inwoodmodels.co.uk/ who sold me some resin board and glue, which I will use to make up the gap between the Triumph headlight mount and the mounting points on the headstock (see left hand photo).






Leaving the speedo and tacho attached to the drive from the from wheel, I let the lay on the floor as I admired this striking looking bike, with its two headlights and clipon handlebars.