Cafe Racers, Scramblers, Trackers, and Bratstyle
The sun rises on FCR Original’s Triumph T100… In 2012, engineers Mathieu Ménard and Sébastien Guillemot founded French workshop FCR Original, quickly demonstrating their skills with victories in the French Dragster National Championships. In 2017, […]
White Helmets veteran Oli Blount builds one stunning tribute machine… For nearly a century, the Royal Signals Motorcycle Display Team — better known as the White Helmets — was a team of soldiers from the […]
Ace Classics builds a faithful replica of Bud Ekins’s desert sled… James Sherwin “Bud” Ekins was an accomplished motocross, desert, and enduro racer from Southern California who would become one of Hollywood’s most famous stuntmen, […]
In 1971, Triumph introduced a new oil-in-frame Bonneville, whose steel chassis held the bike’s oil in its 3-inch diameter backbone instead of a separate oil bag. These “Oilers” would also get a 5-speed gearbox, a […]
Not a Desert Sled: Street-legal vintage Triumph motocrosser! In 1963, the Triumph T120 Bonneville received an all-new 650cc unit-construction engine — it was lighter, stronger, easier to build/maintain, and remains one of motorcycling history’s best-looking […]
Built for exploring the hidden paths, coves, and beaches of Ibiza… In the climactic scene of 1963’s WWII epic, The Great Escape, USAAF Virgil Hilts, played by none other than Steve McQueen, guns his stolen […]
The Triumph “New Bonneville” has proven to be one of the most versatile contemporary platforms for customization. The straight-twin roadster competes directly with the 883 Sportster: “The Triumph Bonneville is unquestionably the better motorcycle. The […]
A Triumph triple racer builds himself a scrambler… Introduced in the early 1970s, the Triumph T140 Bonneville was the 750cc evolution of the 650cc T120, featuring an oil-in-frame design, 360-degree parallel twin, gear-driven cams, twin […]
A 110th Anniversary Special from Meccanica Serrao d’Aquino… In 2012, Triumph launched their 110th Anniversary Edition Bonneville T100, a modern reinterpretation of the classic Bonnies of the 1960s. The bike offered a 67-hp, 865cc parallel […]
