Monkeys are really valuable now days. In Finland (i think Finland had one of the biggest markets of them in Europe) good condition 1980s & 90s monkeys are between 1700-2500€ mint condition monkeys are around 3000€. 1970s models are 1500€ for tear down & unknown condition baske case monkeys. Fully restored models can cost up to 4500€-5000€
Hi Craig, about that finnicky airbox: i usually get some silicone spray on any rubber part. Rubber has silicones in it that tend to evaporate and make it dry and extremely stiff and stubborn. A little silicone spray every few years will keep the rubber from drying to much and will make it slip sooooo easy. my fuel tank has rubber mounts: went from needing 2 people to remove it to just a single hand.
For those looking to put pod filters on CV carbs like these. Try to find ones that don't have a lip on the inside. My Triumph 900 engine came with those exact filters on it and there's an enormous lip that seals off several orifices in the carbs that need clean air flow over them.
Hey Craig and team, just wanted to say thanks for the videos! I've never had a bike and probably never will, but i thoroughly enjoy watching you bring something old out of a garage and bringing it back to life. Thanks again and safe rides!
Craig is the real deal. He has seem some things. A wild pack of BMW GS riders are no joke, people, and yet he saunters off into the unknown on a sketchy Triumph!.
absolutely love this ride it home series. & after riding the last couple years on a chopper, no mirrors and 30% braking power is all apart of the adventure ;) cheers Craig!
That was neat seeing the caboose farm, I use to live about a half mile up the road from there. (Moved away in 1992) Many of the roads you were on I recognized. Thanks for the great content and great scenery.
A few frames in and I knew exactly where you were. I know Thurmont when I see it. Grew up in Sabillasville, which you passed through. Hope you enjoyed the scenery as much as I do!
I've had my thunderbird for 10 years now. One of the best incarnations of the triple you'll ever come across. Make sure you check the camchain! I have just had mine replaced at 53k, and the camchain guide had broken up. The resultant repairs cost a lot of Money!
Triumph sure do make a great bike, even ones that have been sitting for years still run well. I’m a huge Triumph fan, had three and really want another soon.
YES I Was waiting for this! Saw bikes and beards episode and ngl first thought was like "Craig will upload soon " not first but not last but I am here to stay!
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Nice work. FYI, some of those pod filters cover the intake for the vacuum-operated slides which can lead to slow throttle response, bogging, and lean conditions.
I'm a big fan of Keihin CVK carbs. Best thing this side of fuel injection and super fault tolerant. When they start going bad, you have weeks of notice. When Fuel Injection goes bad, you're screwed wherever and whenever you sit.
It wouldn't matter what you were riding, that ride home looked epic, nice scenery with some nice twisty roads which remind me of some roads here in Australia. What more could you ask for Craig, perfect job if you ask me, totally jealous mate.
Great video! My new favorite channel…The MABDR ends in New York at the beginning of the NEBDR (northeast BDR) which runs through the Catskills into the Berkshire’s of Mass to the Green mountains of Vermont through the white mountains of NH and ends in the western mountains of Maine It’s an amazing technical beautiful route.
Very nice bike. Lots of bike people love Triumphs like that in a big way. Basic retro style and functional too. Give me one like that over any massive boat anchor HD cruiser anyday.
Really enjoy these videos. I hope that you do genuinely do enjoy finding, riding these bikes and making these videos as the passion and enjoyment is what makes such great content. If not you are a great actor. So Respect either way. 🇬🇧
Awesome!!!! Now you need to build a Rally Fighter type bike and go cross country only taking the back roads. Yes!!! This is stuff I love doing. I'm not a mechanic but I love the exploring of the back roads
Love this video, it's pretty much what it's like to take a bike on a small road trip. Lots of time on the highway to let your mind wander, taking little pit stops you come across just to take a break, wondering what could go wrong with your bike if it's sketchy lol.
i live on a small island in the middle of the uk and france! sold my last bike to buy a car for my girls, am a single parent full time carer of my 26 year old daughter and parent of my mad teanager 15 year old! been a biker all my life but have given up now as kids come first, love you guys in these videos watched bikes and beards for years, keep going as these videos make my day( been there done that lol) love you guys
I've owned a Triumph tiger 900 and a speedmaster 900, both were 2005. 2 of the best bikes that i ever had as far as reliability and comfort. Although they were 2nd generation triples from what you have that design was solid.. I'm looking for a cheap Bonneville currently. Hopefully you will give that bike some love and bring it back to as close to spec as possible.
When he got to mr eds I knew exactly where he was being from Gettysburg and living in chambersburg route 30 is a very familiar road crazy seeing some one I enjoy watching riding around my neck of the woods
Anything over 40years old is test and tax free so when you find a bike there are people glad to give you cash and ship them to the UK as the price they get is many times greater .it's crazy hear now. Great to see Craig work 😃(in reference to some of the older bikes he has worked on)
@wasterdnb it will be exempt from tax payment and not need an MOT, but you still need to register it as taxed. and in order to get that exemption you gotta apply through dvla
I can’t tell you how much I enjoy your videos getting downed bikes going again - you inspire me - and I have been on a whole day video binge I am so pinkled tink. Thank you.
I love the fact that Craig lives in the next town over from me - would love to come and check out some bikes sometime! I am in York - used to work at Hempfield High School!
Mr Eds is only 15 minutes from my house! I think it's awesome that you stopped there. Micheax state forest is pretty cool also. I saw you also passed the famous round barn! Cool episode!!
I ride the Honda from the 80s that has nearly identical styling to this bike....down to the upswept trumpet exhaust with baffle caps. I get asked often if it is an old Triumph...and I didn't see the resemblance to their most popular models. Now I do.
Bought a 98 adventurer this summer. Looked for videos on them and found this channel. Not too many videos on adventurers so this was a treat. Now it's December and I just watched the last of your videos. Great content I've shared this channel with other bike or mechanically inclined people. Now I have to wait for more content.
Excellent. Put a Yamaha RD350 motor together to go see a lady friend. Two days to match a set of barrels to the pistons out of 4 motors, (basket cases) put bike together, year later the bike was still going great, fun times n great rides.
WOW! No way! I can't wait for the day someone offers me a Triumph Thunderbird/Legend/Adventurer like that! That's such an awesome bike with an awesome engine. I hope to own a Hinckley Triple one day
Thanks so much for doing this video. I honestly think adv bikes are the future. This is my next adventure. The off road capabilities open up so much more fun.
As motorcycle wrenching sort of guy.. the air box and choke work in a partnership that helps the lower end and makes the bike run as it was designed to .
The first time I rode my Triumph for a good distance, it rained and the road was fresh laid. Which means they were nice and oily. Than the wind started to. Yeah, it was a treat. And to add to it I was a fairly new rider.and decided to do the trip myself. Not a good plan.. the good part was I got to learn how to do it.
Craig, my first road bike, when I was 16, was a 75 Bonneville (even though technically it was a Honda 175 enduro but I consider that a dirt bike) I used to change the head gasket on the Bonneville as it was always leaking due to the great manufacturing techniques in the British motorcycle factories. I loved that Bonneville and I should have kept it but I sold it before I went into the Air Force.
I had no patience for anything to do with working on both my bikes till I started to watch your channel. Thank you so much!I've learned a few things too!
There is a reason why the pod filter "airbox removal" kits are popular for these classic style triumphs. Not only you get a nice power boost (provided you get the jetting right) it makes carb mainteance a breeze. 😎
@@MarkoftheMouse Thats true. But then again I am all for tinkering with my bikes. I did recently install British Customs airbox removal kit into my 2005 Speedmaster amd I am happy with the results. She runs really well and the added intake roar on wide open throttle is amazing. 🤘
more great content. keep up the good work, everyone. where i come from we don't say "stone road", we say gravel road. every time you said that in the video, it sounded so weird to me.
The best of them was the Thunderbird sport, it had more power better brakes and a sports riding style, it was almost a more retro styled MK1 speed triple.
Awesome ride! Thanks for sharing. I want so bad to get an old bike for a winter project just for fun but figure unless I get a stupid priced Harley there won't be any parts available.
I live fifteen minutes away from Mr Ed’s and only been there like 3 times! I was thinking those roads look familiar. You almost rode past my house. Crazy if I would’ve passed you
Gotta say Craig this channel is really coming together. The editing, content, and just everything is amazing!
Over the years, I've learned one very important lesson the hard way......there's nothing more expensive than a free vehicle.
haha or a free horse
Or a cheap Ferrari.
or a really good looking girlfriend
@@perry92964 My buddy had a saying that carried a lot of truth. "Show me a beautiful woman and I'll show you a guy that's sick of her bullshit".
You got this for free. The other day in the UK i saw a honda monkey with no engine and broken forks listed for £500
Monkeys are really valuable now days. In Finland (i think Finland had one of the biggest markets of them in Europe) good condition 1980s & 90s monkeys are between 1700-2500€ mint condition monkeys are around 3000€.
1970s models are 1500€ for tear down & unknown condition baske case monkeys. Fully restored models can cost up to 4500€-5000€
Sorry. 1960s &1970s models...
@@oddis188 for these prices I can buy an actual gorilla to carry me around 😂
I just bought a 250cc vespa 2005 for £350
Price for old scrap is going through the roof ! £1000 for a Puch moped absolutely insane 🤔
Had leftover pizza for breakfast, had just enough creamer for the coffee, and now another Craig video? This is just a great day already.
It's midnight, hopefully you remembered to pick up creamer for tomorrow😂. Maybe some eggs too (if you can afford em)
pizza not have breakfast or lunch, only little ewening snacks.
creamer? I barely even know her *Knee Slap*
What, no half empty beer sitting on the coffee table to go with the pizza?
@slickar2752 Where I come from there's no beer leftover 😂
Absolutely loving the content, Craig. Keep 'em coming!!!
Puts on pod filters then proceeds to follow a truck on dusty back roads
This is why i watch this channel!
Loving the direction of this channel. I'm really enjoying the wrenching on the bikes.😊
Oh yeah? That's good!
Craig, your love for bikes and your skills really shine through.
You make many people really happy and you inspire many of us to keep our bikes running and get braver about becoming shade tree mechanics.
Hi Craig, about that finnicky airbox: i usually get some silicone spray on any rubber part. Rubber has silicones in it that tend to evaporate and make it dry and extremely stiff and stubborn. A little silicone spray every few years will keep the rubber from drying to much and will make it slip sooooo easy. my fuel tank has rubber mounts: went from needing 2 people to remove it to just a single hand.
For those looking to put pod filters on CV carbs like these. Try to find ones that don't have a lip on the inside. My Triumph 900 engine came with those exact filters on it and there's an enormous lip that seals off several orifices in the carbs that need clean air flow over them.
This definitely deserves a rebuild!
I like the look of that bike! There is something that is just cool about it.
Hey Craig and team, just wanted to say thanks for the videos! I've never had a bike and probably never will, but i thoroughly enjoy watching you bring something old out of a garage and bringing it back to life. Thanks again and safe rides!
Craig is the real deal. He has seem some things. A wild pack of BMW GS riders are no joke, people, and yet he saunters off into the unknown on a sketchy Triumph!.
Hey Craig that bike turned out to be a decent rider not bad from pieces to pleasure great job.
absolutely love this ride it home series. & after riding the last couple years on a chopper, no mirrors and 30% braking power is all apart of the adventure ;) cheers Craig!
Thanks for taking us along for your adventure.
You as a mechanic can certainly appreciate this wonderful free triumph. Bring it to it's full glory.
That was neat seeing the caboose farm, I use to live about a half mile up the road from there. (Moved away in 1992) Many of the roads you were on I recognized. Thanks for the great content and great scenery.
I like that you are wearing all the gear. You're setting an excellent example for safety
Yes, Craig does it right. He did have a major wreck 2 years ago. So he knows the importance of proper gear.
A few frames in and I knew exactly where you were. I know Thurmont when I see it. Grew up in Sabillasville, which you passed through. Hope you enjoyed the scenery as much as I do!
I've had my thunderbird for 10 years now. One of the best incarnations of the triple you'll ever come across.
Make sure you check the camchain! I have just had mine replaced at 53k, and the camchain guide had broken up. The resultant repairs cost a lot of Money!
I have a 2000 Triumph Adventurer. Absolutely love the bike and it is great to see it on the channel.
OMG, I have driven by Mr. Ed's SO many times and have yet to stop! You made my day by stopping there! You are doing a great job with your channel!
love to see it! bringing an old bike back to life and actually riding!
Great job man. Loving the channel so happy you done it. Miss you and Sean being together put your doing an amazing job. Stay safe and keep having fun.
Triumph sure do make a great bike, even ones that have been sitting for years still run well. I’m a huge Triumph fan, had three and really want another soon.
I have had 2. 72 Daytona and a2003 Speed 4. Loved both. The Speed 4 was a ausome bike. Just not a reliable daily rider. Same for the Daytona.
YES I Was waiting for this! Saw bikes and beards episode and ngl first thought was like "Craig will upload soon " not first but not last but I am here to stay!
Just love it!!!!!! No filler just epic content. 🤘🏻
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This is what I came to the comments for. lol
Nice work. FYI, some of those pod filters cover the intake for the vacuum-operated slides which can lead to slow throttle response, bogging, and lean conditions.
I'm a big fan of Keihin CVK carbs. Best thing this side of fuel injection and super fault tolerant. When they start going bad, you have weeks of notice. When Fuel Injection goes bad, you're screwed wherever and whenever you sit.
It wouldn't matter what you were riding, that ride home looked epic, nice scenery with some nice twisty roads which remind me of some roads here in Australia. What more could you ask for Craig, perfect job if you ask me, totally jealous mate.
Great video! My new favorite channel…The MABDR ends in New York at the beginning of the NEBDR (northeast BDR) which runs through the Catskills into the Berkshire’s of Mass to the Green mountains of Vermont through the white mountains of NH and ends in the western mountains of Maine
It’s an amazing technical beautiful route.
How to install a Triumph Adventurer airbox: Step 1.) remove engine and transmission
I was afraid of that.
Step 2.) Prepare dynamite and firing cap.
I'm happy to see you showing a motorcycle that is nice to look at. No front brake again; I would not even consider riding it.
Very nice bike.
Lots of bike people love Triumphs like that in a big way.
Basic retro style and functional too. Give me one like that over any massive boat anchor HD cruiser anyday.
Always liked the unique sound of the Triumph Triples. Would love to see a "restoration" on that bike :)
Really enjoy these videos. I hope that you do genuinely do enjoy finding, riding these bikes and making these videos as the passion and enjoyment is what makes such great content. If not you are a great actor. So Respect either way. 🇬🇧
It's funny how the landscape looks sooooo much like the one in the area I come from in Germany
Great job. Enjoyable to watch. Nothing but support and blessings for you. So happy you have your own show.
Awesome!!!! Now you need to build a Rally Fighter type bike and go cross country only taking the back roads. Yes!!! This is stuff I love doing. I'm not a mechanic but I love the exploring of the back roads
i recently found your channel man...god bless you. I will make sure to watch your content and enjoy it as long as it takes.
Craig, The Round Barn is just up the road from Mr. Eds Emporium. Great riding is available in this neck of the woods. Dan
Yo Greg, congrats on the success of your show. I never miss an episode. Cheers from California. 🍻 🤘🥸
It’s Craig, brother. His name is Craig 😭
I think we can cut folk some slack on Craig’s name as Shaun pronounces it Kreg.
Seeing aredtsville, biglerville, east Berlin all in one motorcycle revive and drive is crazy to me
Love this video, it's pretty much what it's like to take a bike on a small road trip. Lots of time on the highway to let your mind wander, taking little pit stops you come across just to take a break, wondering what could go wrong with your bike if it's sketchy lol.
i live on a small island in the middle of the uk and france! sold my last bike to buy a car for my girls, am a single parent full time carer of my 26 year old daughter and parent of my mad teanager 15 year old! been a biker all my life but have given up now as kids come first, love you guys in these videos watched bikes and beards for years, keep going as these videos make my day( been there done that lol) love you guys
Bean or donkey?
I've owned a Triumph tiger 900 and a speedmaster 900, both were 2005. 2 of the best bikes that i ever had as far as reliability and comfort. Although they were 2nd generation triples from what you have that design was solid.. I'm looking for a cheap Bonneville currently. Hopefully you will give that bike some love and bring it back to as close to spec as possible.
On a 2001 Bonneville--it's been bullet proof--with a lithium battery it's even cold started in sub zero weather.
Hope you can do a proper tear-down and fix-up of this in a future video. I would watch it :)
Love the characteristic whine of the 3 pot motors.
When he got to mr eds I knew exactly where he was being from Gettysburg and living in chambersburg route 30 is a very familiar road crazy seeing some one I enjoy watching riding around my neck of the woods
AWESOME Adventure on your Adventurer Craig 👍👍
Great video and as an owner myself of a triumph thunderbird 900 1995 here in the UK 🇬🇧 you did good fella. 👍
What a beautiful bike. Love the content, glad you have your own channel now BnB has moved to Tennessee
Anything over 40years old is test and tax free so when you find a bike there are people glad to give you cash and ship them to the UK as the price they get is many times greater .it's crazy hear now. Great to see Craig work 😃(in reference to some of the older bikes he has worked on)
When road tax is £111 if you can get a bike that doesn't need tax or mot and has classic insurance it's almost free to ride.
Wait my 83 gs450 doesn't need mot or tax???
@@wasterdnb are you in the UK?
@chrishart8548 yes mate,new forest.
You?
@wasterdnb it will be exempt from tax payment and not need an MOT, but you still need to register it as taxed. and in order to get that exemption you gotta apply through dvla
I can’t tell you how much I enjoy your videos getting downed bikes going again - you inspire me - and I have been on a whole day video binge I am so pinkled tink.
Thank you.
Very fun video good job. Wheels on the bus music was a good touch. Thanks
I'm in York, PA and ride out to Mr Ed's area all the time. So many beautiful roads around there!
Yay!!! a new video! good way to start the weekend :D Thank you!
I love the fact that Craig lives in the next town over from me - would love to come and check out some bikes sometime! I am in York - used to work at Hempfield High School!
Man Mr Ed’s is just down the road, can’t wait to try the trails in Michaux trails
Mr Eds is only 15 minutes from my house! I think it's awesome that you stopped there. Micheax state forest is pretty cool also. I saw you also passed the famous round barn! Cool episode!!
I ride the Honda from the 80s that has nearly identical styling to this bike....down to the upswept trumpet exhaust with baffle caps. I get asked often if it is an old Triumph...and I didn't see the resemblance to their most popular models. Now I do.
Bought a 98 adventurer this summer. Looked for videos on them and found this channel. Not too many videos on adventurers so this was a treat. Now it's December and I just watched the last of your videos. Great content I've shared this channel with other bike or mechanically inclined people. Now I have to wait for more content.
Excellent. Put a Yamaha RD350 motor together to go see a lady friend. Two days to match a set of barrels to the pistons out of 4 motors, (basket cases) put bike together, year later the bike was still going great, fun times n great rides.
Wish I could find something like that. Never can get lucky like that. Love the bike!
I’ve been following since your first dirt bike video. I love what you do and how you do it! Keep following your passion! I was an instant fan!
Mr eds one of the first place me and my wife went together on 30 between chambersburg and gettysburg. Still with her 18 years later.
Nice video! I had a Hinkley Triumph and the best thing you can do with the airbox is cut the back part in half and let the screws out of the middle
Amazing content, I really enjoyed that, some of the best rides I have had were fraught with problems, but you over come it
Thanks for sharing Mr Ed's
Watching the bearded mechanic is always an adventure
Loving the videos Craig! Great work, fantastic content. Thank you.
WOW! No way! I can't wait for the day someone offers me a Triumph Thunderbird/Legend/Adventurer like that! That's such an awesome bike with an awesome engine. I hope to own a Hinckley Triple one day
I’ve been to that museum it’s pretty cool and awesome to see
after adventure, you need open engine and check all gear box. change new chains, and check idle setting better, then you can say have ready.
Thanks so much for doing this video. I honestly think adv bikes are the future. This is my next adventure. The off road capabilities open up so much more fun.
I bet in time they let all the roads just turn back to rubble and dirt. And we will all need adventure bikes.
You have to do right by this bike and fix it to tip top shape! Would love to see videos of this!
that is pretty nice looking bike. Has a nice sound bit unique. bit of work and you can make as reliable as a triumph can be.
As motorcycle wrenching sort of guy.. the air box and choke work in a partnership that helps the lower end and makes the bike run as it was designed to .
Sweet bike for free. We all don't get that lucky 😂 love to see what ya do with it next.
I like these ride home videos. Always entertaining 👍
The first time I rode my Triumph for a good distance, it rained and the road was fresh laid. Which means they were nice and oily. Than the wind started to. Yeah, it was a treat. And to add to it I was a fairly new rider.and decided to do the trip myself. Not a good plan.. the good part was I got to learn how to do it.
Craig, my first road bike, when I was 16, was a 75 Bonneville (even though technically it was a Honda 175 enduro but I consider that a dirt bike) I used to change the head gasket on the Bonneville as it was always leaking due to the great manufacturing techniques in the British motorcycle factories. I loved that Bonneville and I should have kept it but I sold it before I went into the Air Force.
Easy pod fix, tape up the back half of the filters so it doesn't run too lean.
141k subs... Good Job Craig... this channels doing really good. 250k in no time.
Great video, loved the running commentary! Yams and sweet potatoes are not the same thing. Y'all can Wikipedia it yourselves,
I had no patience for anything to do with working on both my bikes till I started to watch your channel. Thank you so much!I've learned a few things too!
There is a reason why the pod filter "airbox removal" kits are popular for these classic style triumphs. Not only you get a nice power boost (provided you get the jetting right) it makes carb mainteance a breeze. 😎
There’s also a reason why people don’t use them, pain to jet and get running perfectly
@@MarkoftheMouse Thats true. But then again I am all for tinkering with my bikes. I did recently install British Customs airbox removal kit into my 2005 Speedmaster amd I am happy with the results. She runs really well and the added intake roar on wide open throttle is amazing. 🤘
Great video. I always liked the Adventurer and come close to buying one a few times.
more great content. keep up the good work, everyone.
where i come from we don't say "stone road", we say gravel road. every time you said that in the video, it sounded so weird to me.
The best of them was the Thunderbird sport, it had more power better brakes and a sports riding style, it was almost a more retro styled MK1 speed triple.
I think you come up to Alaska next summer and buy a bike,get it running and ride up Dalton Hwy up to the Arctic.
I would love to do that! Definitely a bucket list ride for me
Awesome ride! Thanks for sharing. I want so bad to get an old bike for a winter project just for fun but figure unless I get a stupid priced Harley there won't be any parts available.
A couple socks over the pod filters will get the air fuel back to stock. Works every time.
😮😮😮
They have to be dirty. Clean socks don't provide enough air resistance.
(Is this true? I dunno. It sounded funny in my head though😂)
Filter socks, or actual socks? 🙃
@Fabulousprofound168 actual socks. Like a pack of thick ankle biters from Walmart.
That's a nice bike..keep up the good work stay safe and healthy
If I knew you were stopping at the elephant museum I would’ve came out ! Big fan! My buddy broke my clutch cable in my road king right next to mr eds!
I live fifteen minutes away from Mr Ed’s and only been there like 3 times! I was thinking those roads look familiar. You almost rode past my house. Crazy if I would’ve passed you
Nice. As an owner of a 95 Sprint 900 (same motor), lets just say that thing needs a tune up haha... mine does not sound like that lol.