Classic Bike Hub UK

Was there really anything special about the T140D apart from its name? Steve Wilson rode one, and reports… On summer weekends throughout the early 1980s you would still see quite a few Triumphs on the road, before they became classic, often in the company of two or three big Japs, because (while working) they could…

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Daisy the Speed Twin has carried Graham Ham half around the country and has become more than a little bit famous in the process. But just how did their adventure begin? Picture this. The air is heavy with neglect. Not the deliberate, uncaring neglect of a lazy person, but the neglect that comes with years…

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All that glitters… is usually a pain in the posterior. And the pocket! David Rooney learned this lesson when he bought a beautiful-looking T20… You know those adverts, the ones which say; ‘just needs finishing’? Well, David Rooney knows all about them now, after being seduced by the charms of a shiny-shiny 1961 Tiger Cub.…

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It’s not really a Bonneville, but Neil Owen’s individually-tailored twin-carb 650 twin might, just might, be better than a Bonneville… ‘I have to make two admissions’ says Neil. ‘The first is that this bike isn’t really a 1959 pre-unit Bonneville, although it is a pre-unit Triumph with a re-tuned 1959 engine. The second is that…

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If the amount your rebuild is costing frightens you, says Derek Foulds, then the solution is simple. Don’t add up the numbers! Can such ignorance be bliss with a Triumph twin? Bought way back in 1976, Derek Foulds’ 1961 Thunderbird had 37,189 miles on its clock before he completely overhauled it. The 6T was a…

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The very last production T160 Tridents were several hundred built to Police spec for Saudi Arabia. Steve Wilson rode a refurbished one with less than 30 miles on its clock… It looked like a very smart but pretty stock sort of T160 Trident, big and handsome with the 4.8 gallon tank in Cherokee Red and…

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The debate hots up. Which is the Best Bonnie of all time? Jon Tait has some opinions, based around his three T120s The T120V My dad bought this bike from a guy in Bedfordshire about 15 years ago. It’d been rebuilt but I remember, from riding it home for him, that it was a long…

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A modern rider retraces a trip taken in the 1950s by Triumph’s top man, Edward Turner. This book tells the tale of both journeys, touching on how motorcycling and Britain itself have changed over half a century… My first impression upon receiving the small paperback ‘Travelling With Mr Turner’ by Nigel C Winter, was that…

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An 18 year old BMW. A trip across five continents, 31 countries and 26,000 miles. The first global circumnavigation by a blind person on a motorcycle. And a cracking read, says Dave Blendell… ‘Touching the World’ is the tale of a round the world trip by Cathy Birchall and her partner Bernard Smith. The byline,…

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So the caff-race Bonnie has a strange riding position, dodgy stoppers and is more than a little lethargic? BikerBabe reckons you shouldn’t believe everything you read in the papers… If you’re of a certain generation, then the word Thruxton probably conjures up images of speed, adrenaline, excitement and of course, racing. Back in the late…

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