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2016 Triumph Street Twin | Road Test Review

In the 1960s and ’70s, Triumph sold more motorcycles in the U.S. than in the rest of the world combined. A great many of those bikes...

2016 Triumph Thruxton R | First Ride Review

Read our 2016 Triumph Bonneville T120 Black review About the Thruxton: Take everything you just read about the T120, and toss it out the window....

2016 Triumph Bonneville T120 Black – First Ride Review

Hustling the new 2016 Triumph T120 through blustery ocean breezes somewhere east of Cabo da Roca—the westernmost point of continental Europe—I had to admit:...

2016 Triumph Tiger Explorer XCa | First Ride Review

Today’s adventure-touring segment already offers a dizzying selection, to which Triumph now adds a whole family of next-generation 2016 Tiger Explorers. Three focus on...

2016 Triumph Tiger Sport – Not (Yet) for U.S. Consumption

The Tiger name has a long history at Triumph, with early models dating back to the 1930s. In the modern Hinckley era, Tigers have...

2016 Triumph Speed Triple R | First Ride Review

Triumph’s Speed Triple has always been more Sex Pistols than Rolling Stones, more rebellious punk rock than mainstream rock-’n’-roll, a streetfighter that has been...

2016 Triumph Street Twin | First Ride Review

Photography by Alessio Barbanti and Matteo Cavadini At Milan’s EICMA Show last November (2015), Triumph presented five new parallel-twin motorcycles powered by all-new liquid-cooled engines—one...

Interview: Stuart Wood, Triumph’s Head of Engineering

John Bloor himself aside, Triumph’s head of engineering Stuart Wood, 51, is almost certainly its longest serving employee, a 28-year company veteran who joined...

Triumph Announces U.S. Pricing for New Bonneville Models

Triumph Motorcycles announced the pricing of the new Bonneville range during the global Street Twin press ride on Tuesday. The five new models—Street Twin,...

Triumph Expands Tiger Explorer Line to Six Models for 2016

Triumph’s full-size Tiger Explorer adventure bike line has been updated for 2016, with six models to choose from, three geared toward street riding (XR,...

Triumph Revamps Bonneville Lineup for 2016

Triumph has announced an all-new Bonneville lineup for 2016, with five models: the new Street Twin, the Bonneville T120 and Bonneville T120 Black, and...

Rider Comparo: 2015 Ducati Scrambler vs. Triumph Scrambler

Most of the time, an awful lot of brainwork goes into researching the purchase of a new motorcycle. Facts, figures, statistics, capacity, performance, road...

Middleweight Touring Cruisers: Kawasaki Vulcan 900 Classic LT, Star V Star 950 Tourer, Suzuki Boulevard C50T, Triumph America LT

Baggers, with their broad fairings and hard saddlebags, are popular these days, but classically styled cruisers with windshields and leather saddlebags have been mainstays...

2014 Triumph America LT Review

BRITISH INVASION Although the reborn Triumph showed its first models at the Cologne, Germany, show in 1990, it wasn’t until 2001 that it resurrected the...

2015 Triumph Tiger 800 XRx and Tiger 800 XCx | First Ride Review

In late 2010, at the EICMA show in Milan, Italy, Triumph pulled the covers off two all-new middleweight adventure tourers, the street-oriented Tiger 800...

2015 Triumph Rocket X Limited Edition – First Look Review

Launched in 2004, Triumph’s Rocket III, with its 2,294cc in-line triple, has held the title of the largest-displacement mass-production motorcycle for a decade. When...

2015 Triumph Thunderbird Nightstorm Special Edition – First Look Review

Triumph’s Thunderbird cruiser, powered by a convention-bucking parallel twin displacing 1,597cc, debuted for 2009, slotting between the Bonneville-based America and Speedmaster (both have a...

2015 Triumph Tiger 800 XR and XC – First Look Review

Triumph’s Tiger 800 and Tiger 800 XC adventure tourers, introduced for 2011, impressed us with their torquey in-line triples, good handling and versatility, earning Rider’s...

Triumph Releases 2015 Special Editions

Triumph Motorcycles has released a trio of Special Edition motorcycles for 2015, including the Bonneville T214 Land Speed Limited Edition, the 2015 Street Triple...

Triumph Thruxton Ace Cafe Special Edition | First Look Review

At the 10th Annual Barber Vintage Festival, held October 12-14, 2014, at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Alabama, Triumph Motorcycles unveiled the Triumph Thruxton...

Retrospective: Triumph T140 Bonneville 750: 1973-1988

This 750 Bonneville had a pretty good run—under three entirely different managements. First was the traditional factory at Meriden, followed by the workers’ strike...

Rocketing Through the Cascades on Triumph’s Rocket III Touring

One day I got a postcard from friends who were up on the North Cascades Scenic Highway (Washington Route 20), showing the hairpin turn...

2014 Triumph Thunderbird LT and Commander | Road Test Review

Triumph’s return has succeeded because the company is producing excellent motorcycles, from eager sportbikes to first-rate dual-sports to an exquisite line of modern classics....

2014 Triumph Motorcycles | First Look Review

On the heels of announced updates to the Bonneville, Thruxton and Scrambler for 2014, at the EICMA show in Milan, Italy, Triumph Motorcycles introduced...

2014 Triumph Rocket III Touring | Road Test Review

(This road test review of the 2014 Triumph Rocket III Touring was also published in the October 2013 issue of Rider magazine.) Bigger is better....

Triumph Updates Bonneville, Thruxton and Scrambler for 2014

Triumph has updated its line of modern classics—Bonneville, Thruxton and Scrambler—for 2014 with new color schemes, improved exhaust notes and an even better riding...

2013 Triumph Tiger Explorer XC | First Ride Review

When Triumph introduced its Tiger 800 and 800XC for 2011 and Tiger Explorer for 2012, the British manufacturer clearly wanted a slice of the...

2013 Sport-Touring Comparison Test: BMW K1600GT, BMW R1200RT, Kawasaki Concours 14, Triumph Trophy, Yamaha FJR1300

Sport touring, a hybrid category that blends the performance of sportbikes with the comfort of touring bikes, takes many forms. Some add a taller...

2013 Triumph Trophy SE – Road Test Review

The Triumph Trophy SE is the only all-new model in this comparison, yet it seems strangely familiar. Its liquid-cooled, 1,215cc in-line triple is the...

2013 Triumph Bonneville | Road Test Review

When our Imperial Purple/Fusion White Triumph Bonneville was delivered, I was sure it was a mistake, certain that the bike was intended for the...

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