FF Triumph TT600 Bodywork Set. “Why didn’t you split the set up?” Basically because every single panel had either a scuff or crack in it. One side fairing had also been repaired (badly) in the past! On the plus side,…
Flogged it Friday! Triumph Arm. ‘Single sided swinging arms, they still cool?’ Demand for single sided swingers used to be high. Everything VFR750 Pro Arm model that came my way would give up its rear end to the great god…
Flogged it Friday! Triumph T595 Daytona Clock set. “They look funky.” Triumph threatened to rewrite the superbike rulebook when they teased us with the launch of their strangely named T595. Despite what the name implied it wasn’t a 600cc bike after…
Flogged it Friday! Triumph T595 Daytona ABM Top Yoke Kit. “Why would you want one of these?” The older we get, the less our ageing bodies want to be bent over double in the name of motorcycling. Sports bikes that…
Flogged it Friday! Triumph Daytona 600 2004. “It was mint before the crash.” Not every bike that gets crashed ends up in the yard to be broken. Some bikes that have been written off and given a Cat N classification…
Make or Break? Triumph Daytona 1200. “That’s a bit bright!” Yellow motorcycles, I’ve never been a fan! This big old Triumph looks like a chunky wasp with its custard yellow finish and black trimmings. In fact, every person that’s seen it…
Despair Shop 16 Holey Crap Batman. So last week’s episode told of a CBR1000f that I had acquired that had looked to be a bit of a bargain. This week I discovered why it wasn’t. I had sorted all the…
Despair shop 9 – Show me your nuts. Mr Honda had decided in his wisdom that the tappet nuts on a CBR1000F should be the weirdest size they could find. He got together his entire engineering team, got them pissed…
It took the middleweight supersports fight to the Japanese – but did the TT600 and related Daytona 600 and 650 really have what it took to beat them? And what are they like now? At the end of the last…
It may not have had the kudos of its fully-faired ST ‘brother’, but the RS wasn’t a bad bike by any standards. It’s better still, now it’s in the bargain basement… Twenty years ago Triumph was just beginning to challenge…
