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The Triumph Speed Twin 1200 is a standard motorcycle made by Triumph Motorcycles Ltd that is a modern successor of the original Triumph Speed Twin from 1938. [2] Part of the Triumph Bonneville range, this 1200cc bike was designed to slot in between the 900cc Triumph Street Twin (now renamed the Speed Twin 900) and the heavier 1200cc Triumph Thruxton.
5TA or Triumph Speed Twin: 500 1957–1966 First 500 cc 'unit construction' machine. Alternator electrical system. T90: 350 1963–1969 "Tiger 90", sports version of the 3TA (still single carburettor). (Note, there'd been an earlier Tiger 90, a 500 cc in 1937). T100: 500 1959 Sports version of the 5T "Speed Twin" T100A 1960–1961
Triumph Motorcycles (Thailand) Limited is a 100% UK owned company and now employs about 1000 staff. [10] In June 2009 Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham, the former Minister of State for Trade, became chairman, and the 1,600 cc (98 cu in) Thunderbird twin-cylinder cruiser was announced. [13] [vague]
The Speed Twin 5T is a standard motorcycle that was made by Triumph at their Coventry, and later Meriden factories. Edward Turner, Triumph's Chief Designer and managing director, launched the Triumph Speed Twin at the 1937 National Motorcycle Show. It was a 500 cc OHV vertical twin in a lightweight frame and the first truly successful British ...
The Speed Twin 900 offers a two-cylinder in-line four-stroke engine that has a displacement of 900 cm 3 (55 cu in), equipped with a liquid cooling system, and it runs on a multipoint electronic injection system, producing a maximum power of 55 hp (41 kW) at 5900 rpm and a torque of 80 N⋅m (59 lbf⋅ft) at 3230 rpm, which is bolted to a 5-speed transmission with front engagement.
Using a Tiger 100 and a Speed Twin straight from dealers showrooms, endurance was tested with a run of over 1,800 miles (2,900 km) from John o' Groats to Land's End in Cornwall then to the Brooklands circuit for six hours of continuous high-speed laps, where riders Ivan Wicksteed and David Whitworth averaged 78.5 miles per hour (126.3 km/h ...
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Triumph Speed Twin 900 The Triumph Thruxton is a series of British motorcycles with parallel-twin engines and sports styling . The name Thruxton was first applied to a handbuilt machine for endurance racing in the mid-1960s, and later revived in the 2000s.