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- Just serviced 500 K's ago
- Pretty stock bike, does have a tail tidy
- Classic pea shooter pipes for that classic Triumph sound
- Traded in on another Triumph we had.

I have always been attracted to the type of women you don’t bring home to Mom.

In high school, those were the girls who smoked cigarettes, drank beer, and dated college guys. With a hint of danger and its classic curves, the Triumph Thruxton has always elicited the same effect on me as those bad girls of my youth.



The Triumph Thruxton is not the fastest bike out there, or the lightest, or the most technical, but damned if it’s not one of the coolest. With styling cues and lines cut straight from the 1970s, the Thruxton helped usher in a resurgence of the café racer in America. Or perhaps the resurgence of the café racer helped propel Thruxton sales. It’s the age-old “chicken or the egg” dilemma.

The bike
The Thruxton’s engine, an air-cooled, DOHC, 865 cc parallel twin, remains relatively untouched over its 11-year run. Putting out 69 horsepower at 7,400 rpm and 51 foot-pounds of torque at 5,800 rpm, the Thruxton isn’t winning any races (except when raced against other Thruxtons in the series which bears its name), but power delivery is linear and predictable.