We here at CB-Net figured we’d chuck some interesting bits and pieces at you about Triumph, which John Bloor resurrected almost 20 years ago. John Stuart Bloor made his fortune in the building trade, with Bloor Homes. He bought the…
You don’t have to fly the Cross of St. George outside your semi or wave the Union Jack around like a dervish to be a patriot. You could put your money where your mouth is and ‘buy British.’ Here’s our…
It’s almost three decades since Triumph burst back onto the scene with an amazing array of new bikes – CB-Net decided to have a little look at the history of this amazing manufacturer… John Bloor, from Bloor Holdings purchased the…
CB-Net loves the quirky, weird and downright wonderful, so let’s have a retrospective look at Triumph’s copy-cat CBR600, the TT600 and later Daytona middleweight models… Ahhh the Triumph TT600 a bike once described by a journalist as a great machine,…
British beef… wave the Union Flag, sing ‘God Save The Queen’ very loud and saddle up on one of the most mind-frazzling motorcycles ever built. Yes, our TCT is the recently ‘classic’ Triumph Rocket III… In a time when national…
CB-Net wants to do some jingoistic flag-waving right now and celebrate the mighty bike that was (and is) the Triumph T595 Daytona. It’s amazing to think this machine is now nearly 22 years old so let’s re-examine the affect and…
This was the UK manufacturer’s first decent stab at a big-bore sportsbike and what a good stab it was. It’s still a good road bike and still decent value, we at CB-Net say… Looking back, all we at CB-Net can…
There’s something charming about finding a motorcycle that’s been unused for a few years. Many bikes get parked up and forgotten about, you don’t have to look too far to find one. This Triumph 955i was born in 2001, it…
Rules are made to be broken, so that’s exactly what Triumph did when they set about creating the Daytona 1200. Triumph were still pretty much a fledgling company in the early 90s, their range appealed more to my dad than…
With hindsight, it was triple that should have been available five years earlier. To comply with US regulations the T160 had a left-side change for the five-speed gearbox and quiet but efficient annular-discharge ‘black cap’ silencers to terminate a handsome 3-4 exhaust.
