Triumph Trident - Some thoughts and a bit of summing up after today's ride on Friday the 13th.
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- I enjoyed today's outing on this machine that when I arrived home again i had to show it some love and clean it. Then, after just a few drinks later in the evening, i decided I also wanted to talk about it, so this is how I put my thoughts and feelings about it into words - as usual, there was no script!
Nice series of videos. Thanks for posting.
I had a Hyde 1000 cc T160 back in about 1980-82. It was great. It felt like it had endless torque and all the power you would ever need. It is still around, owned by the bloke I sold it to. I rode that bike in Europe on roads where it really came into its own; great to ride long distance. These days I have a T150V that I knew back in the days I just mentioned. I was acquainted with the guy who owned it, he had stripped it right down and stored it 40 years ago. I bought it off him in 2016. All I did was put it back together with new big ends, mains and new piston rings. Then soon after I replaced the valves and guides. Been riding it ever since. Taken it on the continent a couple of times. These days the oil pressure is not so good, so I think I will have the engine out this autumn.
Anyway, always enjoy the videos. Thanks again
When I chat with a proper long-term biker, money is never mentioned. Many years ago I had to sell my `52 Thunderbird to get me out of a hole. After three Bullets, I have recently bought an A65 as a rolling restoration. I am on a budget, no bad thing as I will be proud as punch when she is running sweetly.
The true value of a machine is the joy of ownership it gives!👍
Agreed, if a bike makes you feel good riding it, that is all that matters.
you are absolutely right with your take on the T150V, a fantastic bike with character. My brother had one, bought from Slocombes of Neasden back in the seventies. I borrowed it on occasion, much better than my ratty Honda 740 four!!
Just keep up the videos Paul absolutely brilliant
Thank you!
You've just increased the value of that bike simply because of this video! I'd buy it. Your enthusiasm is infectious! Thank you.
Dead right. It's not the monetary value, it's what it's worth to you. btw, what a bike!
That’s exactly what it’s all about! Sheer joy of riding!
No accounting for taste. These are visceral and make the blood pump. Even when the experience is second hand on the video it still makes me feel alive.
Philosophical and true...felt your affection for the ol' cart horse bubbling through.
Love the passion, mate. Once you're in love with motorcycles and motorcycling you never lose it. And when those bikes are classic British beasts it's a feeling that just can't be beat!!!
My mates brother has just circumnavigated Australia on his old Trident, over 10.000 mls with virtually no trouble.
I had a 73 trident, beautiful bike, had kind of forgot about it until I heard that exhaust note.
Yupp had a short ride on my T120R to day! it cheered me up no end, after a crap week at work?
I had a couple of Tridents back in the day. A beautiful sound, especially with a straight through three in to one!
I loved the exhaust note on that Trident.
I have a genuine March 72 UK registered A75 BSA. With the breadbin fuel tank, Ray gun silencers, twin disc front end AP racing calipers and electric start. Apologies that is not a boast just a fellow triple fan. I know exactly the thrill you are describing produced by a 52 year old machine you can't beat it soul music 👍.
Nothing like them, is there!
Thanx for another banger of a ride, on a banger of a bike , through beautiful Wales.
I know what you mean. I had a 600 domi for 18 years. being a small guy a camando or trident was to big for me, but I could chuck that norton around quiker than i could a camando. I sold the domi and bought a new hinkley speed triple. It was fast but did not handle and it was like riding a computer. It had no soul. sold that and bought my norton back. give my soul not computer
Hey Paul. Great ride today on the beautiful Trident. The exhaust note was music to the ears, at least on my iPad speakers. And the ability to haul ass when overtaking was amazing. Hope you will be riding it more often in future. Thanks for the experience. Cheers, Dan ✌️🏍🇨🇦
G'day Paul, love you passion for you Trident, when you have a special Motorcycle and you take it for a ride theres nothing better, l haven't own a triple mabe one day, l love the sound of singles, and twins, and I'm a classic owner through and through, cheers mate, Neil 🤠.
Be careful when traveling into the Danelaw. Those people are ruthless
The price of everything is subject the wellbeing of the economy. Today there just isn't the money about for 'ordinary' people to invest in a classic. Where I live even the 'Original Factory Shop' ( a discount shop) closed down due to lack of trade. The 'older' riders who look back fondly on bikes of the 70's have turned to 350 and 650 Royal Enfields as cheap reliable classic looking bikes.
When I was a spotty 16 year old working partime at the local motor bike shop in 1973 i took a brandnew 73 trident for its warrant of fitness in NZ. One of my most memorable motorcycle moments.
Make the most of whats left of the weather. Great bike.
I well remember my first ride on a Trident it wasn't just a fast bike it inspired confidence and could be ridden fast in a way that its supposedly more modern contemporaries couldn't.
What a nice bike.
This is my favorite, of all the bikes you ride. The music of the triples is just grand. Hope you’ll take us out on it with more regularity. Carry on.
"You have got enough bikes already...", that's heard around the globe. But it's not true at all!
I could blow a fuse everytime I hear it at home.
i got a basket case Trident....makes me want to put it back together...
Definitely a must!
Sensitive restoration is todays buzzphrase in classic circles Paul, so you're right on the money with those rayguns. Glad you had a nice ride today, it's what it's all about. Great video, ride safe.
Thank you!
13 in Celtic Folklore is a lucky number
Nice to know. Never been superstitious about 13 but that’s a good tip
In France too.
The bike looks great, hopefully lower prices will encourage new classic riders to experience and enjoy the pleasures of it all.
A thing of great beauty, I have a different triple, a BMW k75
Me too, some of the sounds are the same, but my RT probably weighs more empty than the Trident weighs with the rider, and has about the same power
I went out and back with you today and I loved that bike. I actually reminded me of a Yamaha 850 triple that I rode for a number of years. Yes I know it's no classic but it was as close as I got and it was torquey old beast.
Who needs a Hurricane if he can get one of these?
Strange as it seems but as british classic bike prices drop, seventies japanese prices are on the rise. I saw a Yamaha 50 FS1E on an auction site for over £6000 and rising.
They seem to fetch ridiculous money - I can't understand why.
@@paulhenshaw4514 People think they can buy their lost youth back.
Ronald looks gorgeous 😊
Thank you!
Classic cars and to a lesser extent bikes,are definitely coming down in price and old Landrovers too. I’d say it’s down turn in the market, a stagnant economy, ageing enthusiasts selling where younger people who would actually want vehicles can’t afford them and haven’t got the space to keep them. There’s nice bikes out there for five grand that would easily have done ten about five years back. Obviously caveat emptor and all that and not every trident is as good as yours with the Hyde stuff on her. But I’d always rather have a scruffy used but ridden machine over a fresh resto that’s not been sorted by riding and hasn’t had the sludge cleaned out.
I’m always going through the classifieds trying to resist!
No sludge traps as such to worry about on the Triples, unless you count those little plugs closing the oilway drillings off.
@@paulhenshaw4514 didn’t know that: however I followed your lead and flushed my tr5 oil tank. Worth doing, it wasn’t bad but anything shitty in there is worth getting rid of
Red wine an eBay/Autotrader bikes/etc, a dangerous mix ;)
Classic bike prices are all over the place. Some dreadful wrecks on internet auction sites. Container loads of ex USA bikes that have been mullered by Bubba and Billy-Joe and left to rot in barns. Strong asking prices. On the other hand reasonable cared for bikes still on the road struggling to sell.
Yes - and what's that all about ...
£3k for a Trident is dirt cheap. Must have been some important bits missing, (such as an engine 🤔), lol. They have always been top money & I can’t see that changing for one that’s in running condition. Or just complete.
A T180...was proposed....I believe..
Two T180's were actually made as prototypes, I believe. They were to be called the 'Thunderbird III'. The T160 was the partial result of those.
@@paulhenshaw4514 Thanks for that Paul, I used to get cast off bike mags when I was a lad, can't remember which one I saw the T180 in...after that ride out you sounded, well, almost happy! Ha ha, Tek care mate.
I thought it was looking shiny because it had been used for what it was designed to do but you said you'd cleaned it. I suppose this bike might be what Motor Cycle magazine used to call a "hot lot". It has certain got the looks! A Trident for £3k? My AJS lightweight cost me that but I'm not letting it go at any price. The value comes from the moment I put my bike away and go indoors then want to get the bike out again.
buy one identical to that one she'll never know
I'll give you £3001 for it. "Can't say fairer than that" 😅
Nice try!
@@paulhenshaw4514 Nice restrained response ;)
Love every minute of your videos,the Trident is fantastic, my best friend used to get around about 22mpg how do you do to the gallon? My best wishes to you from the Philippines ❤️💪👍😉😀😁🏁🏁🛺🤔💭🛺🇵🇭🏴⭐