Tiger Cub Tear Down // Paul Brodie's Shop

More Tiger Cub stuff. I am having fun with this. Can you tell? The Tiger Cub was designed by Edward Turner, an Englishman, so you can be sure it has some quirks! 🤓🏁

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[TroopThrowback]

What a lovely and fantastic but of YouTube you’ve made! Thoroughly enjoyed hanging out with you as you disassemble the dainty tiger cub. That’s just how you made it feel. Happy trails!

[SlowBrow]

tx for the nice story on machine..the best story teller on english engine 👍 treating an engine like a foodblogger does....delicious😄

[sparkycasegbr]

Thank you Paul, great video. I'm in the process of rebuilding a 1959 Tiger cub with my brother in law. It has been very useful for the rebuild we are doing over here in England. After working with the engine, I understand why the British bike industry died. We've used a combination of imperial, Metric and Whitworth spanners/sockets and it is annoying, especially when the Japanese bikes I've worked on, including one from the 70's all use metric.

[petermckee]

What a great video! Thank you! I still have all my Whitworth sockets and spanners from the time I had a 6T Trumpy and then an A65L BSA in the late 60s and 70s.
Joseph Lucas indeed. He invented the intermittent windscreen wiper.

Cheers, from Sydney, Australia.

[spacecowboy]

That brought back some memories. First engine I took apart as a 16yr old apprentice. Many thanks

[pauljenkins]

Joseph Lucas, the inventor of the short circuit. At the end of my school days I had a Lucas equipped bike with a Villiers engine that I spent more time pushing than riding.

[-MacCat-]

As a 1st year apprentice I was encouraged, by the motorcycle mad machine shop tradesmen whom I worked with, to buy a Triumph Tiger T110, which was as old as me and deemed rebuildable.
And rebuild it we did although it was more like "grandpa's old axe", which I'm sure you know what that means, by the time we had it completed.
I learned a lot from them all and am forever in their debt for it.
We finished it on a Friday afternoon and on its first speed run, on the Saturday, I sadly confused which side the foot brake was on, having ridden Japanese bikes until that day.
Bike, meet fence .... at >40 mph.
Back to the machine shop it went for another rebuild and was sold without ever riding it again.
Your video made me reminisce but also cringe at some of the engineering that was found acceptable by Edward Turner and his crew back in the 1950's.
As always, thanks to both of you for some great entertainment and education.

[bsimpson]

When I was 16 I bought my brother in laws Tiger Cub. I was tuned right up, high compression, big carb, superman clutch. That thing flew when it was running...And the sound it made was magic!

[peterlastrucci]

Joe Lucas.. Prince of darkness.. that cracked me up!

[nattawut_ksrksr]

My name is Keng. I live in Thailand.
I have successfully assembled a Triumph T20 engine by watching your video.
Thank you very much for your advice.

[buddyboyx]

What a great video, so well made and fascinating narrative. Your production should last through the ages. One small point. When you mentioned the Bonneville style engine you showed a picture of what appeared to be a Triumph Saint rather than a Bonneville. I owned a 1968 Bonneville from new but rode Triumph Saints as a London Met speed cop in the early '70s so I am familiar with both. Amazing machines. I smiled at your review of Whitworth sizing. I had a complete set of Whitworth sockets all my life and don't recall ever using them.

[turkeyhornet]

Just bought a Tiger Cub as a restoration project....very useful video🙏🙏

[jongerber]

In the mid seventy's I bought a set of Whitworth open/box end and sockets from Craftsman for working on a 650 Bonniville. Had a big time on that bike. Sold them with the bike. Thanks for your videos.

[FernandoT]

Ahh the perfect Saturday. New Paul Brodie video.

[jeanlawson]

My first bike was a Bridgestone 100 on off road was an awesome and gorgeous bike had the knee pads on the tank, , , chrome every where... metallic gold paint racks chrome fenders looked like a BSA but more decorative...😎

[diyjeff]

I just picked one of these from my neighbor for free. 1966 model. That tool you made to take off the clutches was in the tool bin. I guess they replaced the clutches a lot. All the tools were made by triumph. Great video.

[tonyread]

Wow. The play in that connecting rod big end! I don't know how it didn't fly through the case!

[leslieaustin]

Some great memories there.
I had a BSA C15, its engine was developed from the T20. You could get to the gearbox sprocket a little more easily than on the Cub.
Separate oils in separate spaces keeps bits of gear teeth out of the engine oil (no real filters on those bikes). My 1992 Yamaha had bits of metal in the oil filter when I changed the oil and filter last week..
Nice to see your Whitworth sockets were made by Britool. As an apprentice in the 1960s I bought a socket set and spanners all made by Britool when they were British (now French...). They were very good tools. I passed my socket set onto my nephew/God-son ten years ago, but still have some of the spanners.
Brit bikes used Whit, BSF (British Standard Fine), UNF and UNC, as well as BSC (Brit Standard Cycle) and BA (Brit. Association) threads. Sometimes all on the same machine..
The “Lucas - Prince of Darkness” thing was from their early trade-slogan, “Lucas - King of the Road”. The Brit m/c industry was not willing to pay properly for their electrical components, so they got crap because they paid crap prices.
Enjoying this one especially, thank you. Les in UK

[MasterofNoneTV]

I love the wry smile at the beginning, as if to imply that he is just about to drop some hard knowledge on the viewer.

[meatcreap]

Really enjoying this stuff, man! You're so knowledgeable and fun to learn from. Thank you!!