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Triumph Tiger Cub

21st November 2022 RowenaH Buying Guide, Features, Reviews

Edward Turner’s cobby Cub has been a firm favourite with classic fans since the early 1950s – and the mighty mite is regularly featured in depth in the monthly magazine. Here are some of the highlights, should you be tempted to bid on a T20 right now… Triumph’s first production sprung frame plunged (ahem) into existence when the T15 Terrier…

Tiger Cub Book Back!

20th March 2022 RowenaH Features, News, Reviews

It’s been out of print for a while, but the Triumph Tiger Cub Bible is now available once again, as Mike Powell explains… The Tiger Cub Bible is back in print from Veloce Publishing as part of their ‘classic reprint’ series. Any owner, enthusiast or rider with interest in these charismatic machines will find an answer to almost every question,…

Triumph Tiger Cubs: part three

10th September 2021 RowenaH Features, Reviews, Road Tests

In the end, everything goes back to the beginning: Paul Henshaw’s Cub career comes full circle… 1979 or so finds BXS 487 with a black petrol tank in between the Trials Cub and the Sports Cub behind Back to BXS 487, my first Cub. Many years had passed when I decided to strip the engine to see what the knocking…

Triumph Tiger Cubs: part two

14th August 2021 RowenaH Features, From The Archive, Reviews, Your Ride

Last time, Paul Henshaw recalled his first adventures aboard Edward Turner’s Sports Cub. Turns out this was one of those formative experiences which lasts a lifetime… Sometime later after it’d been restored to full working order, I blew a big hole in the bottom of the Sports Cub’s crankcases, with both conrod and piston exiting onto the road in many…

Triumph Tiger Cubs: part one

5th August 2021 RowenaH Features, Reviews, Road Tests

In the August issue of RealClassic, Paul Henshaw of Performance Classics gives us his guidelines to living with Triumph famous four-stroke lightweight. And his expertise has been hard-earned; he’s been a Cub enthusiast since his 13th birthday! Here, Paul recalls his early riding life with the tiny Tigers… My inspiration for buying my first Tiger Cub was hearing a local…

Triumph 3TA / TwentyOne

3rd August 2020 RowenaH Road Tests

The first of Triumph’s unit-construction twins provided practical transport 40 years ago. These days, the 350 performs best on gentle weekend rides… Geoff Painter bought his 3TA, aka the Triumph Twenty-one, in 1967 when it was just two years old. The 350 twin was supplied to Elite Motors in July of 1964 but wasn’t sold or registered until the following…