A neato graphic with our popular maker spelling out a motorcycle itself.
February 28, 2015
From the Acorn
A frame display of leather jacket patches seen by our correspondent Dean Rennie on his trip to Iowa. Each to display the wearers allegiance to the British marque. The oak leaf is perfect: an English Oak Quercus robur.
February 24, 2015
La Moto au Feminin
“Rouler à moto, c’est comme écouter de la musique en stéréo, vous faites vraiment partie de l’environnement”.
That’s the words of fast femme Marianne Weber, Belgian reporter speedster who was as comfortable going rapide on a motorcycle as most of us are in a lounge chair.
Her racing steed from 1947 a Triumph 3T 350cc. One of Triumphs first post war racers.
“Riding a bike, it’s like listening to music in stereo, you are really part of the environment”. Good words.
February 21, 2015
Grin & Bear it.
He’ll rough it, take the back roads, eat whatever is available; but now he’s a frontman for the big bad Triumph Tiger. Bear Grylls is man versus wild and mountain, sea, desert, forest traveler extraordinaire. Good bike to choose for his lifestyle.
February 15, 2015
Clippings ‘edges.
Gary Johnson cuts a close line around the man eating course of the TT. Aboard his 675R Dayton he took top place in 2014 supersport race.
February 12, 2015
#TBT minus 80 years
Back in 1935 you could pick up this moto for 77 quid. About five grand in today’s money. However this tractor of a bike was a commercial failure. Being expensive, non interchangeable with other Triumphs, heavyweight sidecar hack, and competition from the Austin Seven and Morris Eight motor cars. Only a few hundred were made. Though being Triumph first parallel twin it is overshadowed by Ed Turners superior Speed Twin a couple of years later; itself the precursor to half a century of models.
February 5, 2015
The First Motorcycle Race
…was when the Second motorcycle was built. Here’s a besmocked racer ready for a long scoot from one end (Land’s) to t’other (John o’Groats). The ride is a 3 1/2 Hp Triumph.
February 2, 2015
Insure
Progressive Insurance have a strong ongoing advertisement with their character Flo. Since 2008. She assures insurance premiums are competitive with other companies. Here are a couple of frames from a particular TV spot where motorcycle insurance is promoted. She pulls up to a stop sign next to a Ducati.
Her moto is a pearly white Triumph Daytona. Which matches her usual white outfit.
The quirky, chipper sales clerk, typically seen wearing a white apron and blue Chuck Taylor’s, is portrayed by comedienne Stephanie Courtney.
January 29, 2015
Di she ain’t
The big triple makes her look kinda wee.
Camilla Parker Bowels (spellchecker correction for Bowles). Duchess of Cornwall to the denizens of Blighty. Chaz likes his motors, in particular Aston Martins, but here’s his gal on a mighty Triumph. Albeit sidesaddle.
Diana? We know the story of the paparazzi on fast Beemers, a Paris tunnel and a nation in mourning.
Here she gives the lads biking inspiration for a future of motos which they both share.
January 28, 2015
Seeing Double
Wha’? A pair of twins side by side to make a four. Unique engineering to link cranks and set up valves and timing. 1300cc and a fifties frame and sixties brakes. Wobbly at speed I’ll bet! About this time Honda’s CB750 was quickly being cleared from the showroom floors. This Triumph was of course a one off so it was up to the factory triple Trident to go up against the Honda.
January 27, 2015
Dalziel & Pascoe
Watching an older episode of the Yorkshire police show Dalziel & Pascoe one of the characters, who also works down what must be one of the last pits, rides a late 90’s Triumph T595 Daytona. He’s a main suspect so being a stereotypical rowdy biker maintains suspense.
He wheelies along colliery row houses and near allotment gardens.
Grumpy Dalziel (PR. Dall eel ) is played by the late Warren Clark. Starting his career as Dim in A Clockwork Orange.
“There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence.”
January 23, 2015
Don’t Think Twice It’s All Right
I spent today drafting planting plans, devising associated details and writing specifications. No ‘phones ringing to distract me! So I put on some Dylan music to hustle the hours along. Worked like a charm!
January 17, 2015
Ink and Wash
Fun little loose sketches by an artist called T Vasco. My style of quick capture. The little hint of red on the ’62 tank adds a splash of color to liven the machines up.
January 15, 2015
“What have I got to do for you to leave this showroom on that bike today?”
2014 was a good year for the British motorcycle industry. TRIUMPH achieved record sales in the Uk after supplying a fifth of new bikes over 500cc. From the ever popular sports bikes in the Daytona, Speed and Street Triples; the retro Bonneville and its surly cousin Thruxton; to the flexible Tigers for both road and trail; they are positioned for riders of all tastes.
Model sales are booming:
Bonneville Scrambler up 84%.
Tiger 800XC up 24%
1200 Explorer XC up 54%.
In all 8,128 bikes were sold in the UK last year.
In context a 10% sales growth across the industry was witnessed in the UK last year.
Triumph’s UK general manager Rick Cawley said: ‘The industry is undoubtedly experiencing its most successful seasons in over five years, a true reflection of the burgeoning confidence in the UK economy and demonstrates that riding is regaining popularity as a leisure pursuit, as well as a stylish option for the urban commuter.’
It’s good to hear that the Triumph name is a common site on blightys’s roads these days!
January 13, 2015
The one and only Billy Shears
Reuse, recycle, replay.
Remember slipping out the delicate disc of vinyl from its sleeve. Spinning it over edge to edge gazing at the shimmering groove. Popping side 1 onto the turntable and clicking the arm to begin the turntable and gently placing the needle down. It was a sacred sequence when listening to your favorite LP’s. Mine was Sargent Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band.
The disc brake as table is inspired. But I’d lay a velvet bed down first.
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