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Triumph Street Twin and Bonneville T100 Custom

Triumph Street Twin and Bonneville T100 Custom

Triumph produce plenty of aftermarket parts and accessories for all models across the range, so it’s never been easier to personalise your Triumph and give it your own unique stamp. Here’s a couple of examples to show you what can be achieved using bolt-on parts. Triumph produce over 150 custom parts for each model in the ‘modern classics’ range, so here we’ve taken a standard Street Twin and Bon…

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Two Old Dears on a Pair of Triumphs

Two Old Dears on a Pair of Triumphs

Thanks to Rina for sending in this story and photo from her travels in France and Spain.

“Hullo from Riders Rest in Theil, France.

“A friend, Chrissie, and I are just coming to the end of a 3 week tour of Spain and France on our Triumphs – mine a Bonny America trike conversion and Chrissie on the new Street Twin. I had to have my America converted 3 years ago when my disability became too severe…

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Fathers Day Gift Ideas

Fathers Day Gift Ideas

Fathers Day isn’t far away – Sunday 18th June – so if you’re stuck for gift ideas, why not pop in to either of our stores and take a look at the latest range of Triumph gifts and collectables. There’s plenty of choice available and here we’ve put together a few examples. Just click on any image to find out more. If you can’t see exactly what you’re looking for, just give us a call on either 01784…

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Italy on a Triumph Tiger Sport & Explorer

Italy on a Triumph Tiger Sport & Explorer

Thanks to Ray Cattini, one of our Romford customers, for sharing these photos of a recent ride across Europe to Italy and back. Ray was using his Tiger Sport and travelling with a mate riding a Tiger Explorer.

They travelled through France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg – a total of 2,500 miles.

Ray says ‘the bike was fantastic on the motorways and mountain passes.…

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Photos From Bike Shed MC Show 2017

Photos From Bike Shed MC Show 2017

This year’s Bike Shed MC show took place over the weekend of 26th-28th May and once again the event was a massive success with some stunning bikes on display.  As always, Triumph were very much in evidence and our regular contributor David Gill was on hand with his camera. So we’ve had a difficult job selecting our favourite photos from the show. With so many eyecatching special bikes to see, we…

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Triumph Announce 2018 Colour Schemes

Triumph Announce 2018 Colour Schemes

Triumph have announced some new colour schemes for their Modern Classics range for 2018. Here’s a sneak preview of what you can expect. Be one of the first and order yours today! Click on any photo to find out more about that particular bike.

2018 Bonneville Bobber in Cranberry Red / Frozen Silver

2018 Street Twin in Crystal White

2018 Street Twin in Matt Aluminium Silver

2018 Bonneville T120 in…

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Romford Riders Association of Triumph - 28 May 2017

Romford Riders Association of Triumph – 28 May 2017

Here’s some photos from the most recent ride of the Romford Riders Association of Triumph.  The group organise regular rides throughout the season and the destination for the latest ride was the North Farmbridge River Festival on Sunday 28th May.  The riders met up at the Norton Heath Cafe (CM4 0LQ) from 9am for a spot of breakfast prior to setting off at 10am departure for a gentle run through…

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Hedon and Bell Helmets

Hedon and Bell Helmets

We’ve recently started stocking a range of Bell Helmets at our Ashford branch, an iconic brand we chose specifically because of its heritage and reputation. The Bell helmet is a modern classic, which is why we felt the brand was the perfect choice to sell alongside our Triumph motorcycles. Meanwhile at our Romford branch, we’ve started stocking Hedon helmets – a very cool young brand of…

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The Bike Shed 'Hoxton' - Triumph Thruxton Custom

The Bike Shed ‘Hoxton’ – Triumph Thruxton Custom

We’ve recently been doing some work on the Bike Shed custom Thruxton, known as the ‘Hoxton’ in readiness for it’s appearance at the upcoming Bike Shed custom bike show at Tobacco Dock, London, this weekend (26th to 28th May).

Based on a Thruxton 1200, the Hoxton is essentially a ‘work in progress’ machine designed to show what can be achieved using ‘off the shelf’ parts to customise and…

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Photos from Dick Turpin Bike Meet

Photos from Dick Turpin Bike Meet

Thanks to David Gill for sending these photos from a recent bike meet at the Dick Turpin pub on the A127.  David is a member of our Romford Riders Association of Triumph and a regular contributor to our social media pages.  The Dick Turpin meet is a weekly event and featured in a recent article we published:   

Bike Meets and Cafes in and Around Essex

Hope you enjoy these photos.  We’ll kick off…

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We Want to Buy Your Triumph

We Want to Buy Your Triumph

We’re always looking out for good quality, well cared for Triumphs to add to our used bike stock.  

Do you own a Triumph motorcycle which you’re thinking about selling?  Want to avoid the hassle of and expense of advertising and trying to sell your bike privately?  Why not give us a call for a free valuation – we’re currently expanding our selection of used bikes at both our branches and your…

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Test Ride the New Triumph Street Triple S

Test Ride the New Triumph Street Triple S

The recently launched all-new Street Triple range  are the most explosive, agile and intuitive performance street motorcycles Triumph has ever made. 

There are 3 distinctive new models designed to suit every rider and style – the Street Triple S, Street Triple R and Street Triple RS.  We now have a Street Triple S demonstrator in Phantom Black (pictured above) available at our Ashford store, so…

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Triumph Street Scrambler in Korosi Red

Triumph Street Scrambler in Korosi Red

We love this colour scheme on the new Triumph Street Scrambler – 2-tone Korosi Red with Frozen Silver. Here’s a few photos we took this morning of the Street Scrambler in our Ashford showroom.

The all new Street Scrambler is the newest addition to Triumph’s 900cc Street Classics range, following on from the Street Twin and cafe-racer inspired Street Cup.  The Street Scrambler delivers a…

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Bike Meets and Cafes in and around Essex

Bike Meets and Cafes in and around Essex

David Gill is a keen members of our Romford Riders Association of Triumph and regularly sends us photos of the rides and events which the group enjoys throughout the season. Thanks to David for sending these suggestions of bike meets and bike-friendly cafes in and around Essex.  Hope you can get out on the bike and experience some of these for yourself – and if you do, send us some photos of your…

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Bike Meets in and Around Essex

Bike Meets in and Around Essex

David Gill is a member of our Romford Riders Association of Triumph and a regular contributor to our blog pages with his excellent photos of bike meets and rides. Here’s David’s suggestions for bike-friendly cafes and bike meets in and around Essex.  If you take a ride out to any of these places, send us a photo or two and we’ll share it on our social media pages. Send your photos to Hugh at…

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Our Latest Triumph Videos

Our Latest Triumph Videos

Here’s a quick round-up of some of our recent bike videos which we’ve uploaded to our YouTube channel. Take a virtual ride on the new Triumph Bonneville Bobber, Street Scrambler and Street Triple RS.  See a timelapse video of one of our technicians performing a frame swap on a Tiger 800.  Or find out how the TFT instrument panel works on the new Street Triple RS…

Riding the Bonneville Bobber…

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Sprint Record Holder Steve Walton

Sprint Record Holder Steve Walton

Steve Walton, salesman at our Romford branch, competes in Sprint competitions in his spare time. Here’s his update of his latest activities this season…

The 2017 Sprint Season so far…

After only doing a few select events last year due to other commitments I decided this year to once again contest the British ACU Sprint Championship in which I finished runner up a couple of seasons ago. After a…

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