VP's Bike ~ The Bonnie

A neat thin strip vertical ad highlighting the sublime Bonneville as the sporty choice of business executives. Looming office buildings flank the parked ride between lesser 'motorcars'. It's rival of the time was of course the E Type Jag; serious competition indeed!

Still a damn fine machine...

Googled!

Bonneville, Thundebird, Speed Triple, Hinckley models, Speed Twin. A few of the sample you'd see when requesting a google image search for Triumph Motorcycles. Eye Candy All!

Under the Blue Sky

I enjoy looking at the various ways riding is captured with the image; one simple one is the ride-along shot. Here it's taken with a little more angled cropping to achieve a dynamic view, effective with great early 70's Triumph and bubble visored rider who is obviously intent on the open road ahead. Just need to find myself a photographer as well as driver to go alongside me to get some similar shots...

Heeeey!

A well known bike to millions of American TV viewers of the 70's is comng up for sale. The 'cool' Triumph we see The Fonz riding on during the opening credits of Happy Days. It's a 50's 500cc TR5 Trophy with rigid frame. A moto used by the desert racers in SoCal at the time; this one beginning in the hands of Bud Ekins. When Happy Days was in it's conceptual infancy Hollywood called their biker pal Ekins to supply a chopper for a new cool character to ride on; he put high bars on, stripped the front fender and sprayed the tank silver...  an icon was born!

Roll-on 3 decades and Ekins was clearing out his not inconsiderable collection passing a warehouse of bikes, parts and memerobilia to another Triumph dealer 'Mean Marshall' Ehlers. This old Trumpet was sitting forlornly amongst it all. Now Mr Ehlers needs to sell it so this bike is up for grabs to the highest bidder through Bonhams.

Full Story: www.cycleworld.com/fonzies-triumph

T-Shirt, Triumph Shirt

Nice clean graphic of the logo name and a quarter of the Union Flag,

Shinya Kimura

One of the great recent motocycle craftmen on the west coast is Shinya Kimura; he shapes, hones, whittles the frame, tank, fairing of Triumphs...

A great short film about his ethos in bikebuilding.

"The Needle"



Triton fit for a Queen

The classic True Triton: pre-unit Triumph engine enveloped by the curvy Norton Featherbed frame. A choice combination shown here at speedwith appropriately dressed rider: Frank Thomas boots, gauntlet gloves, puddin' bowl lid. Poetry in motion.