Category: Triumph Motorcycles

One Awesome Triumph Bonneville Custom From Toro Meyer

It appears Chris  “Toro” Meyer, has had a wild ride through this life so far, and if all goes to plan, it’s going to get a lot wilder in the next year. Toro, aside from building this really fine Triumph Bonneville custom, The Bonneville Black, is planning to make a...

A Stripped Down and Refined Norton Model 50 – Bike Find of the Day

The Norton Model 50, manufactured from 1933 to 1939 and again after the war from 1956 through 1963, featured a modest 348cc, ohv single engine. Weighing in at a svelte 400 lbs dry weight and capable of  a top speed of 75 mph, this little gem was also good for...

Deconstructing the Motorcycle For Domestic Uses

When Triumph Motorcycles turned loose a group of students at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design in a room full of motorcycle parts, they took a slightly different than expected tack. Instead of asking the student designers to work on concepts for future machines, they asked the students to...

Oh Lawdy Nothing Sweeter Than A Triumph Bobber

Could the men of Hinckley have ever imagined what people would do with their machines? I have my doubts, but once you’ve seen the utterly stripped magnificence of a ’60s Triumph hardtail bobber, there’s no going back. The breed just says pure class, citizen. Roll up on one of these...

Tom Cruise Says He's Not Afraid of a Little Road Rash

Yeah he’s a movie star, a Hollywood superstar in fact, but Tom Cruise says he wanted to ride motorcycles since the age of 12. With horrifically bankable films behind him and more to come (like Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol) Cruise is also famous for doing his own stunts from...

Local Builders Vying For Title at Charlotte Motorcycle Show

Darrell Murphy’s Honda 1500 The Progressive International Motorcycle Show is headed to Charlotte this coming weekend, and the lineup includes a couple of local builders vying for the freestyle custom title and the three-grand check that comes along with it. The Charlotte Convention Center show, like the shows before it...