1983 Triumph TSX

My grandfather bought this bike brand new and after many moves and traveling across the country the bike found a home under a car port with a majority of the parts sitting in a tub in a station wagon.A few years before my grandfather passed away he asked my mom to take the bike and put it away until she felt I should have it.

Now that I have grown she felt it was a good time to give it to me.It has been sitting inside out garage for almost 15 years and have been touched but once or twice. My step dad took it to a friend’s shortly after we picked it up and managed to get it to run but since then it’s just been sitting. (I threw a huge fit that someone other than me was touching my grandfather’s bike and I think my step dad appreciated that so didn’t touch it again.

Here are some pictures of the bike at my parents’ house and on my trailer ready to take the ride from Kansas to Illinois.

The first thing I did once I got it home was try and piece this puzzle together by putting what parts I could onto the bike and begin to make a parts list. Here is the aftermath.

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