- 7615CB1C-8632-41C9-B603-ED478510D07C.png (714.47 KiB) Viewed 1655 times
Nice Triumph Twin
-
lancashirelad
- Posts: 1776
- Joined: Thu Apr 14, 2011 8:18 pm
- Location: East Lancs
- Has thanked: 201 times
- Been thanked: 272 times
Nice Triumph Twin
Now I’m very partial to a nice Triumph twin, nothing sounds better in a trial, but I wouldn’t like to pay £12,500 & throw it at a section in anger? Nice bike though.
***just like Britney Spears oops I did it again……sold the Scrambler & as of now there may not be a replacement***
-
scoobydidler
- Posts: 917
- Joined: Sat Aug 17, 2013 7:02 am
- Been thanked: 54 times
Re: Nice Triumph Twin
Guessing there's a few quid gone into the suspension and brakes there over standard but yes, they do sound ace the old bikes. Rode a trial once and Mick Grant turned up on a 500 Ariel possibly. It made the ground shake!
Sent from my moto g(9) power using Tapatalk
Sent from my moto g(9) power using Tapatalk
-
lancashirelad
- Posts: 1776
- Joined: Thu Apr 14, 2011 8:18 pm
- Location: East Lancs
- Has thanked: 201 times
- Been thanked: 272 times
Re: Nice Triumph Twin
Mick Grant rides with our club now & again, he’s a very good rider.
***just like Britney Spears oops I did it again……sold the Scrambler & as of now there may not be a replacement***
-
Richard Simpson Mark II
- Posts: 3518
- Joined: Tue May 09, 2017 9:03 pm
- Has thanked: 1414 times
- Been thanked: 1669 times
Re: Nice Triumph Twin
- Perrett Triumph.jpg (200.55 KiB) Viewed 1435 times
This isn't the soon to be launched Triumph MX racer...It can, however, keep up with a Honda CR500!
-
Richard Simpson Mark II
- Posts: 3518
- Joined: Tue May 09, 2017 9:03 pm
- Has thanked: 1414 times
- Been thanked: 1669 times
Re: Nice Triumph Twin
Ridden by Lewis Trickett when I saw it at Farleigh...built by Martin Perrett. Two versions: twin shock and and Evo.
Goes really fast for three laps, then the exhaust ports overheat and it slows down.
Goes really fast for three laps, then the exhaust ports overheat and it slows down.
-
Richard Simpson Mark II
- Posts: 3518
- Joined: Tue May 09, 2017 9:03 pm
- Has thanked: 1414 times
- Been thanked: 1669 times
Fantastic video-
Richard Simpson Mark II
- Posts: 3518
- Joined: Tue May 09, 2017 9:03 pm
- Has thanked: 1414 times
- Been thanked: 1669 times
Re: Nice Triumph Twin
Martin has been building Triumph motocrossers since the late 1970s. He's a West Dorset farmer, and a very clever engineer and fabricator. If he was Japanese, he'd probably be director of HRC. As it is, he builds motorbikes as a hobby!
The first Perrett Triumph was the Perrett Prototype...ridden by the much-loved Roscoe Shepherd: the only black MX racer in southern England at the time, so far as I know. As you can imagine, a black guy on a Triumph attracted a huge (for rural Dorset) crowd, and they willed him to win in every race. Easily the most popular guy in the paddock.
The Perrett Prototype was itself very innovative. At a time when most bikes were twin-shock, it was monoshock: with a Manx Norton forkleg as the rear suspension unit. Martin did approach the Meriden Motorcycle Co-Operative to see if they would build him a batch of 500cc unit Triumph engines to make Production Perretts with, but it never came to anything.
The first Perrett Triumph was the Perrett Prototype...ridden by the much-loved Roscoe Shepherd: the only black MX racer in southern England at the time, so far as I know. As you can imagine, a black guy on a Triumph attracted a huge (for rural Dorset) crowd, and they willed him to win in every race. Easily the most popular guy in the paddock.
The Perrett Prototype was itself very innovative. At a time when most bikes were twin-shock, it was monoshock: with a Manx Norton forkleg as the rear suspension unit. Martin did approach the Meriden Motorcycle Co-Operative to see if they would build him a batch of 500cc unit Triumph engines to make Production Perretts with, but it never came to anything.
