triumph motorcycles Archives

Inside Triumph’s Motorcycle Factory

13th August 2018 RowenaH Features

The Triumph Visitor Experience opened back in February, and recently my friend John announced he had a spare ticket for the Factory Tour, reports RC regular Richard Jones. This seemed like an excellent opportunity for Tessie the Triumph to return home for a visit. And so it was that John and I both went along on our Triumph T100s on…

Triumph Motorcycles report record sales

21st December 2017 RowenaH Features

Five new models in the Triumph line-up give the British bike builder a boost, increasing sales, revenue and profits across the board… Triumph Motorcycles has announced its financial results for its last fiscal year which ended 30th June 2017. Now operating in more than 57 countries around the world, Triumph grew global revenues by a hefty 22%, adding £90.9 million…

National Motorcycle Museum LIVE!

6th November 2017 RowenaH Events

This annual open day is well named – the Birmingham bike museum absolutely came alive with chattering, happy crowds on a very wet and windy November day. The normally peaceful environment which envelopes the world’s largest collection of British bikes was set aside for ten hours of non-stop activity. The conference suites were transformed into a bustling bike jumble and…

Trusty Triumph

22nd October 2017 RowenaH Features

While we celebrate the resurgence of modern Triumph motorcycles, it’s easy to overlook the marque’s major contribution to motorcycling itself which took place over a hundred years ago. Had it not been for Triumph’s first ‘era of greatness’, argues Timothy Pickering, the powered two-wheeler could have vanished from Britain’s roads long before the classic bike was invented… Frank Melling’s otherwise…

December issue – out now!

30th November 2016 RowenaH Latest Issue

This month’s magazine features vintage motorcycles, classic bikes and other interesting oddities: singles, twins and triples; two-strokes and four-strokes, built in Britain, Japan and even elsewhere. Read all about ’em… BSA A7 In seven decades, this unusual 500 twin has been ridden, crashed, relegated to a cellar, rebuilt, restored and revitalised. The later A7 is very much a smaller…