Some bikes are just right for a certain time and place. The GSX-R600 is bliss around Cadwell on a sunny Sunday track day. My Hornet 600 somehow makes filtering through traffic on a cold winter morning enjoyable. But for cruising the Pacific Coast Highway 2-up on your honeymoon, I believe the ideal machine is a Triumph Bonneville. Everyone thinks it ...
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- 01 December 2010
Motorcycle insurance costs are an important consideration for any bike buyer. That's why MCN is highlighting some of the best cheap-to-insure motorcycles out there. This time it's the Triumph Bonneville. Insurance group: 9Engine: 790cc parallel twinPower: 61bhpTop speed: 112mph Weight: 205kg For a smooth, no hurries, no worries motorcycle the Triumph Bonneville is hard to beat. With ...
- Motorcycle Insurance
- 23 August 2010
The bike most commonly linked with the late stunt great Evel Knievel might have been a Harley Davison, but the bike he made his name on was a Triumph – the machine he used for his Caesars Palace jump. In October Middlesex dealer Jack Lilley began work on a bike to commemorate the pivotal moment in Evel Knievel’s career, but ...
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- 30 December 2007
How about this for uber Gallic retro cool? French custom specialist Mecatwin has unveiled this glorious Bonneville flat tracker, available in limited numbers this year. Based on the Bonneville T100, the Springfield Triumph boasts Mecatwins Best Power kit upping the power to 79bhp from 66bhp and flat tracker styling cues that have shaved 12kg off the original weight to a ...
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- Custom & modified bikes
- 04 January 2007
Triumph aimed the Bonneville like an arrow straight at the heart of Harley’s 883 Sportster. With a heritage to rival the Yank’s and a better riding performance the Triumph Bonneville is unquestionably the better motorcycle. The handling is more than respectable, the brakes markedly better and, of course, it’s British.
- Motorcycle Reviews
- 23 November 2006
