Triumph

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…

Mid-1960’s; one nineteen-year-old medical student aboard his T100 crossed vast Indian plains and climbed snow-capped Himalayan passes multiple times. Similar distance to riding from Delhi to London’s Ace Café; his name is Irfan Sheikh Triumph in India Motorcycle exports to…

Now then… this was a real game-changer for people who loved British bikes – which was lots of us back in the late 1990s. Looking back it could be argued that the original wasn’t quite the bike it was hyped…

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,…