Classic Bike Hub UK

If you’re talking about modern classically-styled twins, then which is actually better? Brady Davis rides both regularly, and so take us down some parallel lines… My motorcycling career kicked off in the 1970s with a schoolboy interest limited to buying copies of Bike and later Which Bike magazines. My first motorcycle was a Suzuki TS100ER…

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George Wilshaw’s Triton defied classification at the 2004 Stinkwheel RealClassic Bike Show. As we couldn’t figure out which class it belonged in, we had to invent an award on the spot for it… There’s no such thing as a typical Triton – even trying to define the nature of the beast is like dipping your…

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Roy Bacon gave the early T150 a 5-star rating (otherwise reserved for the pre-unit twins and Thruxton Bonnie). We met two T150 owners who explain what’s so special about their three-cylinder machines… If you happen to browse through the Triumph Motorcycle Buyer’s Guide by Roy Bacon, you’ll notice that very few models achieve a 5-star…

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When is CB350 Paul not CB350 Paul? When he’s Speed Twin Paul, of course. The Speed Twin route to classic motorcycle contentment is not necessarily a straight- forward one, however… A year ago I decided that I must try to own another British bike. I’d only ever owned one previously, and that was a 1952…

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Ever bought more than you bargained for? Jerry Fiford did when he fell for a classic 1970 Triumph Trophy, and he explains how and why to Rowena Hoseason… There are people who will tell you that the 1970 Trophy was one of the landmark Triumph motorcycles; one of the most well developed and stylish classics,…

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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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