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Portrait Eric Cheney and Cheney Vehicles

Eric’s new kicks

Twenty-five years ago, Sixdays riders won on Eric Cheney’s off-road motorcycles. Today the agile 71 year old enthusiast manufactures replicas of these lively Triumph and BSA machines together with his son.

“Are you looking for Dad? He’s just gone on his mountain bike for lunch. He’ll be back in 20 minutes, ”says Simon Cheney in the long faces of three visitors standing in front of a tiny workshop in the southern English town of Crookham. Immediately the slim person in the overalls turns back to the aged, somewhat dusty frame gauge and gives the wickerwork clamped in it a neat longitudinal seam made of hard solder. The gray-haired, spindly man with a cap, who comes on a bike a little later, has been a magician for a good three decades when it comes to British off-road motorcycles of all kinds. Back in 1963, he met driver Jerry Scott at a competition in Beenham Park, Berkshire. The imaginative builder developed a lightweight chassis of the finest quality for its BSA. He made the frame, the main tube of which was designed as a 3.5 liter oil tank, from light, high-strength chrome molybdenum steel. A polished petrol tank made of light metal was the grand finale of the first Cheney Gold Star, with which Scott was always ahead. Within a short period of time, both names were on everyone’s lips in England’s sixties scrambler scene.

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Portrait Eric Cheney and Cheney Vehicles

Portrait Eric Cheney and Cheney Vehicles
Eric’s new kicks

BSA Gold Star, but three years later his active career was suddenly ended by a serious infection that he caught at a competition in Algiers, North Africa.

He reflects on his know-how and will successfully build machines for others in the future. Even today, Cheney cannot complain about too few orders. New projects such as a small series of 650 Triumph Moto Cross machines are about to be completed, as is the restoration of a very special Triumph, with which the former Sixday driver Steve McQueen fell victim to a barbed wire fence in the 1963 anti-war film “Broken Chains”.

Cheney Vehicles (V) (Archive Version) – Cheney ISDT Triumph 500

Engine Air-cooled Triumph Unit two-cylinder four-stroke engine, bore x stroke 69 x 65.5 cm3, displacement 490 cm3, compression 9: 1, ohv valve control via four push rods and two camshafts below, dry sump lubrication, an Amal Concentric round slide carburetor, diameter 26 mm, contactless capacitor ignition (CDI) without battery, kick starter, nominal power approx. 36 HP (26 kW) at 7000 rpm power transmission, primary drive via duplex endless chain, mechanically operated six-plate oil bath clutch, four-speed gearbox, chain drive on rear-wheel chassis, Cheney T 45 tubular steel frame, fully nickel-plated, steering head angle 64 Degree, 2 liter oil reservoir in the main frame tube and beam, optionally Ceriani or Marzocchi telescopic fork at the front, caster 76 mm, needle-bearing tubular steel swing arm at the rear, two Koni spring struts, with five-way adjustable spring preload and adjustable damping, simplex half-hub drum brakes at the front and rear , Diameter 152 mm, Akront LM spoke rims, wheelbase 1448 mm, seat height he 813 mmWeight with a full tank 129 kgFront suspension travel 178 mm rear 102 mmTire size front 2.75 x 21 rear 4.00 x 18Price 4700 pounds (about 11500 marks) Warranty 1 year unlimited mileage Address Inter-Moto, Unit 3, Potters Industrial Park, 237 Aldershot Road, Church Crookham , GB-Fleet, Hantshire

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