Triumph goes urban

Triumph Thunderbird goes urban

Triumph Thunderbird 900 for sale

Breaking News:

The Triumph Thunderbird 900 featured on this blog is going to be listed for sale.

This stunning bike with only 6800 miles recorded and one previous owner, is regretfully going to be sold.

As soon as the URL (for the listing) is available, I will add it here. It will probably be listed on eBay to start with.

If you wish to express an interest, please leave me a comment.

Light Painting a Thunderbird

Light Painting a Triumph Thunderbird

Triumph Thunderbird gets the ‘Light Painting’ treatment.

The above picture was taken using the increasingly popular Light Painting technique where the image is photographed using multiple exposures before it is layered and blended during the editing stage.

Photograph taken by BikePix © 2014

 

Triumph Thunderbird at the sea side

Triumph Thunderbird 900 at the sea side

Here is a photograph of a Triumph Thunderbird 900 photographed at Paignton harbour in Devon. The colourful sea side background is contrasted by the powerful cloudy grey skies and that almost compliments the maroon and silver two tone pain scheme on this bike?

This 2001 model is a lovely example of why these Hinckly build Triumph’s are still enjoying such popularity amongst Triumph enthusiasts.

Art Retro?

Triumph Thunderbird tank badge

Close up photograph showing the tank badge from a Triumph Thunderbird 900.

This retro style ‘mouth organ’ tank badge was intended to evoke a sense of nostalgia associated with the Triumph brand.
 

Triumph Thunderbird at Greenway House

Triumph Thunderbird photographed at Greenway House

This photograph shows my Triumph Thunderbird 900 looking very regal outside of Greenway House, near Galmpton. The cream walls of the famous building show the bikes features off quite nicely. Greenway Houses’ claim to fame is that it was at one time the home of Agatha Christie, but is now owned by the National Trust.

 

Harbourside cruising

Change over from the TBS…….

Note: This remainder of this blog is now being dedicated to a Hinckley Triumph Thunderbird 900 Triple. Please visit the Hinckly Triumph Thunderbird page to read about the bike swop.

Hinckley Triumph Thunderbird 900

The Triumph Thunderbird pictured here has been purchased today and is now awaiting it’s service and MOT before being delivered. This bike was registered in 2001, had one previous owner and is in immaculate condition having done only approx. 6,500k miles.

As you can see it has the two tone Maroon and Silver paint scheme and comes fitted with an original Triumph Summer Screen, Triumph Sissy bar and genuine Triumph King and Queen seat. More on these accessories to follow.

This blog will now follow this particular bike and new content will be added in due course. The previous material about the Triumph Thunderbird Sport will be retained.

Triumph Thunderbird History:

1995: Triumph Thunderbird 900 launched.
1996: Triumph Thunderbird 900 gets new oval section swing arm.
1997: Triumph Thunderbird 900 gets new chrome rad end covers and grill as standard.
1998: Triumph Thunderbird 900 now with king and queen seat as standard.
1999: Triumph Thunderbird Sport introduced.
2003: Both Triumph Thunderbirds discontinued.

 

If you go down to the woods today….

 

Triumph Thunderbird Sport woodland photo shoot © Bikepix 2014

Triumph Thunderbird Sport woodland photo shoot © Bikepix 2014

 

Here are a two photographs taken in woodland for a photo shoot today. Featuring a 2003 Triumph Thunderbird Sport.

Motorcycle Photography by BikePix

Worldwide interest in TBS blog

TBS viewing stats

I thought you might be interested to see the breakdown of visitors to this blog by order of country.

I knew the Triumph Thunderbird Sport was a popular bike in the States, Australia and France; but these figures show a much wider interest. Although not included on the screen shot of Triumph Thunderbird Sport viewing stats, the Czech Republic, Japan and India are all scoring over 30 views (since the blog was launched).

But it goes much wider then that, the full list now sets out over 7,000 visitor viewing stats from another 41 counties around the world, showing strong global interest in the Triumph brand.