triumph 650

TriBSA 650

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RowenaH

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20th January 2023

Out of the archive: in another blast from the past we look back at an article John Walton wrote in the early days of RealClassic… looking back at a bike he owned a couple of decades before then! Step into our time machine to meet a pre-unit Triumph 650 twin housed in a BSA A10…
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Triumph Thunderbird

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RowenaH

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11th October 2017

Back in the early 1980s, Triumph built a budget 650; a short-stroke version of the 750 Bonneville. These days the TR65 Thunderbird is proving to be a rewarding practical classic bike for one regular rider… ‘As I age,’ says RC regular Mark Holyoake, ‘my taste in bikes has changed. Gone are the days of race-reps…
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Shepton Snapshots, part two

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RowenaH

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28th March 2017

We return to the VMCC’s brilliant bikejumble to view some bargain Britbikes, an outstanding Ariel, ‘cheap’ Triumph twins and an original Ninja… Just the other day we were talking about ‘bargain Bonnevilles’ and how the prices of Triumph T140 twins seem to have gone sky-high recently. Just to prove us wrong (or possibly not…)…
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