Thanks for the photo Mike. Your TSS looks in top condition. The cigar mufflers must have made quite a difference to the noise factor. Do you know whether your TSS came out standard with the non balance pipe headers? Is it fitted with the Amal Mk 2 carburettors ?
They are a really nice bike to ride !
Cheers
SD
When I bought the bike it had Norton-pattern peashooters on, and was REALLY LOUD (in my opinion the exhaust should NEVER be so noisy that you can't hear the top end rattling - as they always seem to!!) and was painted in a sort of two tone dark grey. Unfortunately the owner had filled it with petrol (brimmed the tank!) and left it in the sun - so it had a sort of random crackle pattern with (un)attractive yellow chromate primer showing through - no street cred left whatsoever!!
First job was to check it over, take it back to black and gold (sprayed with cans and pin-stripe tape applied in my garage) and change those silencers.
Carburettors are Amal Mk2s - same as my T140E, and the bike is a much sweeter bike to ride than my T140Vs, especially in traffic. Tyres are Continental Conti Blitz (never heard of them!!) and tyre-shine had been used, no, not on the tyre wall but across the WHOLE tyre! A little light safety sanding in order there before any road use. I'm not sure if it's the cast wheels, but it feels a lot more 'planted' in corners than the T140E.
My info. gives 434 total TSS production, can't remember which book - I'll look it out if required. The dimensions of the main bearings in the 1980's on T140's were changed and are actually the same part number as those quoted for the TSS, but I remember reading somewhere that there are other bottom end (i.e. crankshaft based) differences between the two.
I get most of my bits from TMS in Nottingham (UK) - one of the blokes there was in the dealership when they were selling TSSs, and he remembers quite a bit of what went on - the press bike was prepared in the race shop for instance, and a lot of the troubles were dowm to poor assembly or variable quality in parts production.
Regards - sun's out, get the washing out, do the kitchen floor, sort out the bees, maybe go for a ride if the Sunday drivers are still asleep - well, there's always Mugello on the TV.
Happy riding/polishing/dreaming. Stay safe
Mike (the other one)
If I really needed a rack, I could always purchase a second rear mudguard. 
