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June 18, 2009
Filed Under (Product) by admin
Triumph Motorcycles And Why We Love Triumph Motorcycles
By Tony Harries
In 1886 a German gentleman called Bettman named his company the Triumph Cycle Company and was later re-named the New Triumph Co.Ltd. By the mid-1920s Triumph had grown into one of Britain’s leading motorcycle and car makers, with a 500,000 square feet plant producing up to 30,000 motorcycles and cars each year.
The Triumph Bonneville was made famous by Marlin Brando, Richard Gere, and Clint Eastwood in their respective classic movies not forgetting Steve McQueen in the 1963 movie "The Great Escape" being acclaimed to be one of the best War movies ever made. Triumph found its bikes in high demand overseas, and export sales became a primary source of the company’s revenues, although for the United States, Triumph models were manufactured under license. Last year Triumph sold over thirty one thousand motorcycles across the globe a real success story . Triumph is apparently seriously challenging Harley Davidson in the USA. Some of the popular models are the Bonneville,Daytona, Rocket III, Sprint, Speed Triple, Thunderbird, Tiger, Trident and Trophy. Many of the classic Triumph motorcycles tend to hold or increase their value. I hope you enjoyed this short article on Triumph motorcycles Review of the Triumph Thruxton 900
By InsureMyRide
Just admiring a Thruxton from afar will get images of black Brando jackets, oil-spattered leather boots and striving to break ‘The Ton’ flitting through your mind, while actually taking one for a spin gets the nostalgia flowing in a torrent. The low-set clip-on ‘bars, the gleaming chrome of the bullet headlight and the rasp of the tapered silencers all play their part in sending you back through the decades, when the term ‘Café Racer’ was born on London’s busy city streets, in biker haunts like the Ace Café and the Busy Bee. Fortunately, although its styling harks back to the days when the British bike industry was king, the Thruxton has its wheels planted firmly in the present. Launched in 2004 and named after the historic British circuit, the Thruxton is basically a café racer version of the marque’s leading retro classic, the Bonneville, but with tweaked suspension, brakes and steering geometry, clip-on ‘bars, megaphone exhausts, a ’shorty’ front guard and a seat hump, the latter simply a cover that comes off to reveal space for a pillion. On the road its manner are pure modern-day – its preload adjustable suspension does a good job of smoothing the bumps, its disc brakes haul it down from speed well and it tracks a line through a corner beautifully. Firstly, in an absent-minded moment it’s possible to cook your left knee on the cylinder head, although this isn’t such an issue if you’re wearing leathers. Secondly, the separate steering lock means it’s possible to ride off with the steering lock on. For those with an affinity with café racer-style bikes of the 60’s and 70’s, the Triumph Thruxton 900 offers a truly modern package with the style and edge of yesteryear. SPECS: Triumph Thruxton 900 Edited by Agus Wahyudi Popularity: unranked [?] Post a comment
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