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[Joe Nardy]

That's a pretty cool bike. Good to know actually, so thanks for the update. (Kenny Roberts signature to boot!)

They were able to meet emissions standards by incorporating catalytic converters in the exhausts and may have been the first motorcycles to use them. Unfortunately, the cat equipped exhausts really strangled power. Adding aftermarket exhaust, ditching the airbox for individual air filters, and re-jetting really livened them up. I owned one for a couple years. It was the only bike I ever rode that would loft the front wheel and slide the rear at the same time coming out of a slow corner. And yes, the 'King' Kenny Roberts signature was cool.

 

[knotscott]

.... It was the only bike I ever rode that would loft the front wheel and slide the rear at the same time coming out of a slow corner...

 

[Joe Nardy]

Well, it usually wasn't planned and was not a big wheelie or slide. By the time I realized what was happening it was over. Nothing like Garry McCoy on a 500cc 2 stroke....

 

[epifanatic]

All this talk about blue smokers has me pining for the days of my 73 H1 and all of the MX's and YZ's of my youth.

 

[Bobcat]

Rode my cousins YZ400 down a small WW2 training airstrip.
Never jumped on it again.
Crazy fast and cool.

 

[Ken Mitchell]

I hadn't noticed the section of the forum before. I have actually ridden this bike to the West Boylston (Massachusetts) "FrankenFest" event before, so I purposely couldn't take much home.

 

[Catmanboo]

I hadn't noticed the section of the forum before. I have actually ridden this bike to the West Boylston (Massachusetts) "FrankenFest" event before, so I purposely couldn't take much home.



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Yay! Another hinckley triumph rider!welcome to the fraternity!

 

[Ken Mitchell]

Yay! Another hinckley triumph rider!welcome to the fraternity!

Been riding the Hinckley Triumphs since 2000, with a '00 Sprint RS 955i, then an '05 Tiger 955i, then a '11 Tiger 800, and this one. I had in distant past a '73 Bonneville T140V, and a '75 Trident T160.

 

[Catmanboo]

Been riding the Hinckley Triumphs since 2000, with a '00 Sprint RS 955i, then an '05 Tiger 955i, then a '11 Tiger 800, and this one. I had in distant past a '73 Bonneville T140V, and a '75 Trident T160.

Well then, scratch my stooopid comment then. I've only been on my '05 Speedmaster since may of that year. Can't find reason to replace it yet at 47506 miles & counting!

 

[Ken Mitchell]

Well then, scratch my stooopid comment then. I've only been on my '05 Speedmaster since may of that year. Can't find reason to replace it yet at 47506 miles & counting!

Nah, nothing bad about your comment. My 2000 Sprint RS 955i was my high-mileage champ. I put 54k miles on it in 6 years. I've put 12k miles on the current ride in two years of ownership, that could be my new average, about 6,000 miles a year.

 

[mkane]

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[Catmanboo]

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Looks like a tinkered-with yammer rd-350 or thereabouts.

 

[mkane]

400 and heavily modded.

 

[Bobcat]

@mkane
I’d love to see more pics and learn more about the bike.

 

[Yatsushiro]

Yay! Another hinckley triumph rider!welcome to the fraternity!

Apart from the very top level FTC specials, nearly all Triumphs are now made in Thailand. The Speed Triple and Tiger 1200 were the last models to have their production moved from the UK to Thailand.

 

[tourmax]

1983 Yamaha venture with a vmax heart transplant:



Fully active vboost system via an Ignitech digital ignition control. Boat load of other “upgrades”. Thing is a monster and treating the throttle carelessly will get you in big trouble. Either with the law or with a crash…

1985 VF750Finterceptor:



Not exactly stock, too much going on to list it all.

1989 FJ1200 undergoing “upgrades”:



Thunderace rear arm, cartridge emulators, custom rear shock, fzr1000 rear wheel, fzr750 front wheel and much more.

Latest project to go under the knife,1982 cb650SC:



The way you see it is the what I did to it nearly 2 decades ago. Sat at the exwife’s house in the back yard all that time. I thought it was long ago disposed of. Got a text to come get it or she was getting rid of it, so I showed up while she was at work and loaded it on the trailer. Plan is to punch the engine out to right around 750 cc (limits of the design) and do a full custom frame like a Martin frame from the 70/80’s. It’s a roller right now and waiting in the shed for its turn on the frame table:

 

[mkane]

@mkane
I’d love to see more pics and learn more about the bike.

Don't have any more pics. Threw them all away when I sold it. Bought it new, raced it with the AFM through the 80's. 430cc, max port, nikasil liners, big reeds, straight cuts, and aftermarket programmable ignition. TZ front end, YSS shocks. Fast but my 70-year-old 185 lbs body is a bit too much for it. I used to weigh 158lbs 45 years ago.

 

[Catmanboo]

Apart from the very top level FTC specials, nearly all Triumphs are now made in Thailand. The Speed Triple and Tiger 1200 were the last models to have their production moved from the UK to Thailand.

Yes, I was quite disheartened to learn that a while back. At least corporate is still Hinckley. OTOH, I understand H-D has outsourced a good bit of their assembly work also.

 

[Ken Mitchell]

Apart from the very top level FTC specials, nearly all Triumphs are now made in Thailand. The Speed Triple and Tiger 1200 were the last models to have their production moved from the UK to Thailand.

All my Triumphs up until this one ('21 Street Triple R) were built in the UK. Even my 2011 Tiger 800 was.

It's their factory, 100% run by Triumph UK. It's not like a factory in China where a UK or US based company may have a few QC people in place but the Chinese gov't controls the workforce and the factory.

Regardless of where the factory is located, the design and engineering, choices of materials and outside suppliers is 100% Triumph UK and all the money goes to the Bloor family. We can see the outstanding fit & finish when you park one next to any competitive Japanese-built bike.

 

[Yatsushiro]

My remark was not meant to be disparaging. On the contrary, everything that Triumph is doing continues to impress; I'm particularly excited by the upcoming MotoX/Supercoss endeavour, with Ricky Carmichael involved, and the supply of engines to Moto2.

As a Brit who grew up during the death throes of the 'original' British motorcycle industry (my father worked at Vincent, Norton and AJS), it does gladden the heart to see Triumph doing so well, designing, building and selling an interesting range of bikes, seemingly of high quality and reliability.,