Today's Victim: Glorious Noise

photo by joondog

Today's victim is Bob Ginders Rickman Metisse Triumph. I dug around in my thesaurus for a bit but I kept gravitating back to the word gorgeous, so that's what I'm going to stick with. It's simply gorgeous and gorgeously simple in it's execution.

The frame is an early Rickman that has been modified for the unit motor, and it is nickel plated, with oil-in-frame, and is quite beautiful. The bodywork is Avon fiberglass in black, which was period and was produced by Avon for Rickman, and the lines of the bodywork just seem to flow.

The engine is a unit Triumph TR-6 twin with 9.5 : 1 compression running a single 32mm Mikuni carb. The heads have been flowed and are ceramic coated, as are the valves and pistons. The ignition is a Boyer-Branson with Dyna-coils. And it's got those oh-so sexy high pipes and they bark with just the right tone and volume. Did I mention it is fast?

The hubs are B-50's laced to alloy rims, with the front brake switched from the normal BSA right-hand mount, to the more practical and better working left-hand side mount. The triple-trees are Ceriani's with tapered head bearings, and Marzocchi straight leg forks, and the rear shocks are Curnutt's. The handlebars are Rickman's and the controls are by Magura with a Gunnar Gasser throttle.

I've had the pleasure of banging this thing around our grass scrambles track a couple times and can only try and explain the smile factor that this motorcycle generates. Did I happen to mention fast?

And when someone else is on this bike, and they're a quarter mile away from you, and it turns and romps toward home, the noise it makes can only be described as glorious.........

L8R
PWA

P.S. This thing is currently on the market and any interested parties can get in touch HERE at B&J Racing.........