Triumph Trophy 250 Desert Sled from Scott Verrall… The Triumph Trophy T25W (W for ‘Woodsman’) — aka the Trophy 250 — was a lightweight single-cylinder scrambler born from the company’s tight relationship with BSA. The […]
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Born in the Dirt, Built for the Street: Triumph Tracker 400
Triumph announces the Tracker 400, coming in 2026… Here at BikeBound, we’re big fans of flat and street trackers, so it piqued our interest this week when Triumph announced a new addition to their 2027 […]
Desert Sled 55: 1963 Triumph Speed Twin
Built for for £4K: Dan Steward’s Triumph 5TA Desert Sled… Ed Turner — Triumph’s legendary designer and director — launched the original Speed Twin 5T at the 1937 National Motorcycle Show. The 500 parallel-twin […]
The Green Pig: “Yax Muuk” Triumph Scrambler 1200 XE
BikeBound Photographer Roberto Garagarza’s Scrambler 1200 XE… For 2019, Triumph unveiled the Scrambler 1200, which soon proved itself to be much more than a scrambler in name alone. For once, a factory had designed and […]
Triumph T120 “Tambora” Bonneville
Batakastem Workshop’s British Bike Build… Triumph launched the original T120 Bonneville in 1959 as “The Best Motorcycle in the World.” The “T120” portion of the name stemmed from the bike’s projected top speed of 120 […]
Born Free: 1961 Triumph Pre-Unit Duplex Digger “Stretch”
Duplex Digger: Karl Ardo’s Pre-Unit Triumph Chopper… In 1960, the twin-carb Bonneville 650 received a new “Duplex” frame whose twin front downtubes corrected the “Whip Iron” wobble of the original bike. Today, the 1960-62 Triumph […]
Monster Triple: Triumph Speed Triple 955i
Rover-inspired “Monster Triple” from Cus’Tom Motorcycle… When Triumph made their Hinckley factory comeback in the early 1990s, they opted for a modular production plan that allowed them to manufacture a wide range of models […]
Street Racer: Triumph Street Triple 675
In 2007, Triumph took the 675cc liquid-cooled triple-cylinder supersport engine from the Daytona 675 and put it in a streetfighter-style naked machine modeled after the mighty Speed Triple 1050. The three-cylinder engine crossed the grunt […]
Soul of a Sprinter: Triumph Trident 660 RS Café Racer
From FCR Original: Triple-Cylinder Triumph Café Racer… Introduced in 2020, the Triumph Trident 660 is a middleweight naked bike / roadster with an 80-bhp triple born from the Daytona 675 supersport engine. The engine […]
Street Triple on Steroids: Triumph Trophy 1200 Streetfighter
Vic Shield’s Trophy 4 Streetfighter, built 28 years ago! The modern rebirth of the Triumph brand is a storied one. In 1988, a new factory was built on a 10-acre site in Hinckley, Leicestershire, and […]
