Triumphrat

Ray548 · 03-04-2010, 04:11 AM

Good press is hard to keep down.

http://www.motorcycledaily.com/02Mar...hAdvantage.htm

Professor Mike · 03-04-2010, 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Ray548

Good press is hard to keep down.

http://www.motorcycledaily.com/02Mar...hAdvantage.htm

Ray:
My dealer in Tulsa,Oklahoma advised that we will see alot more of this. Seems that Triumph is stepping up its ad campagin in the US. They are going to make a big push to up their market share in America. Triumph is going to try to stay with the history of Triumph that has made them what they are.ie, the parallel Twin and Triple engines. Any attempt to produce a V-Twin clone is totally not going to happen.

Prof. Mike

Overkill0084 · 03-04-2010, 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Professor Mike

Ray:
My dealer in Tulsa,Oklahoma advised that we will see alot more of this. Seems that Triumph is stepping up its ad campagin in the US. They are going to make a big push to up their market share in America. Triumph is going to try to stay with the history of Triumph that has made them what they are.ie, the parallel Twin and Triple engines. Any attempt to produce a V-Twin clone is totally not going to happen.

Prof. Mike

It's not like there just aren't enough V-twins available. I would be disappointed if Triumph decided to build a V-twin. The world needs another V-twin cruiser like the Octo-Mom needs anther child.

DruAde · 03-04-2010, 02:13 PM

Triumph , VTwin , never happen .

traveler501 · 03-04-2010, 06:29 PM

At the risk of beating a dead horse...there are good reasons for vertical twins and triples today, and hardly any at all for V-twins except for nostalgia (V's are fine if they twist your watch, just hard to make an engineering argument for them these days, excepting MotoGuzzi's version obviously). The most intriguing aspect of Triumph for me is that they don't just have heritage per se, but have a long-standing heritage for quality design and innovation that will easily continue into the foreseeable future under Bloor. Meanwhile, I'm shopping for 450cc Yamaha dirtbike...I'm open to all forms of quality *smile*
regards,
John

Professor Mike · 03-05-2010, 09:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Overkill0084

It's not like there just aren't enough V-twins available. I would be disappointed if Triumph decided to build a V-twin. The world needs another V-twin cruiser like the Octo-Mom needs anther child.

Oh how very true and that's exactly why Triumph has absolutely NO plans to produce one. I would be extremely disappointed if they did. I'm confident that i'll not be.

Thatch · 03-05-2010, 10:59 AM

The thunderbird was confirmation that that's not about to happen. If they didn't do it for the bird and with the bird being as successful as it has been, they won't ever be doing it.

Which I think we're all quite glad about.