#triumph bonneville t120

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Bentley Mark VI Majestic Major Hemi V8 Special (one-off). 

When you first see a Bentley Mark VI in all of its stately proportions, high-performance isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. The Mark VI is now often used as a wedding car along with its Rolls-Royce stablemate the Silver Wraith, and what they lack in outright speed they make up for with elegance, dignity, and opulence.

For the uninitiated, a Bentley Special is a car that started life as a Bentley, often a Mark VI, that then has its chassis shortened and lowered. A new more sporting body is usually fitted on top, possibly influenced by the Bentley Le Mans racers of the 1920s and 1930s, and new engines and transmissions are frequently fitted for a more sporting driving experience.

In essence, Bentley Specials are hot rods for the kind of people who fare on a first name basis with all the Ritz-Carlton concierges from London to Los Angeles.

When delivered to customers most of the Bentley Mark VIs that were made were fitted with steel coachwork with four doors, and they were powered by either the 4.3 or 4.6 liter straight-six sending power to the rear wheels via a 4-speed manual gearbox.

The Daimler Majestic Major 4.5 V8 engine is perhaps not as well known as it should be. It was designed by legendary British engineer Edward Turner in two forms that look remarkably similar from the outside – the 2.5 V8 and the 4.5 V8.

The 2.5 V8 was produced in far higher numbers as it was fitted to both the Daimler SP250 sports car and the Daimler V8 250 four-door sedan. Surprisingly given the difference in displacement the external dimensions of the two engines are fairly close, the 4.5 is slightly wider, longer, and deeper.

Turner had made a name for himself designing motorcycle engines for Ariel and then Triumph earlier in his career, including the famous Ariel Square Four, the Triumph Speed Twin, the Triumph Thunderbird, and the Triumph T120 Bonneville.

In 1959 he designed the two automotive V8 engines for Daimler, using a very similar design for both engines, which included hemispherical combustion chambers and an overhead valve cylinder head design influenced by his earlier work on high-performance Triumph motorcycle engines.

The V8 has a 90º vee angle, an iron block with sandcast aluminum-alloy heads which contain two valves per cylinder actuated with pushrods from the camshaft which is located high in the block. The design of the engine has been praised by many over the years, including Jay Leno, however the fact that it was most famously fitted to the Daimler SP250 sports car – a vehicle that was not at all well-received – did dampen its reception somewhat. The 4.5 liter version of the V8 was fitted to the Daimler Majestic Major, a large and luxurious four-door sedan with a curb weight north of 4,000 lbs. The engine was said to produce 220 bhp and 283 lb ft of torque however this has been challenged in intervening years as the Daimler dynamometer was somewhat antiquated and was unable to produce readings above 220 bhp.

Whatever the actual power of the engine was it was prodigious, it was capable of propelling the hefty Daimler Majestic Major to a top speed of 120 mph, almost unheard of in such a vehicle at the time, and it gave the car performance that could rival many sports cars of the era.

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2023 Triumph Bonneville T120 Black.

A bike so nice, I bought it twice.

My first encounter with a Triumph was in 1978. Fifty years later, they look very much the same.

The fit and finish is second to none.

The engine is happy to roar; it’s happy to purr.

Back roads are comfortable; hard cornering is planted.

It is easy on the eyes. You never get bored looking at the Bonnie.

By far, the most pleasant motorcycle I’ve ever ridden.

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Just dropped today issue 15 dated 23rd February 2024. Welcome to the latest of Modern Classic Motorcycle News now incorporating Superbike News featuring latest news and reviews from the world of Modern Classic and Roadster/Naked and Sports bikes with a sports coverage. Here you can read the recent news and reviews that are featured on our website but offline at your own comfort. Issue 15 out today Friday 9th February 2024 Featuring bonneville, BSAMotorcycles, caferacer, custommotorcycles, Honda, Kawasaki, KawasakiZ900RS, MCMNews, ModernClassic, ModernClassicMotorcycleNews, ModernClassicMotorcycles, MotorcycleNews, NakedMotorcycles, RetroMotorcycles, RoyalEnfield, t120, Triumph, TriumphBobber, TriumphMotorcycles, triumphscrambler

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Triumph Unveils Bonneville T120 Elvis Presley Limited Edition - Global Brands Magazine

Celebrating Elvis and the fascinating story of his ‘Memphis Mafia’ Bonnevilles, Triumph Motorcycles has unveiled a stunning T120 Elvis Presley Limited Edition.

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the mindset that i have observed with motorcyclist is that when you start riding you get a lower cc bike and later upgrade which i would say might be similar with cars at first get a cheap old car and eventually buy a newer one and all is well with the logic here but listen once i buy something i'm buying it with an intention of keeping it forever... or like i have this dream bike but before i buy it i should buy something preferably used and with less power but then ill have spent moneys and it will now take me longer to get more money for the one i actually want do you see my problem

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Illustrating Cadence by @motswolo : the rest of the internal illustrations!!! (Except maybe one bonus epilogue one...)

Brief step back to Chapter 93 where Sheila talks about the music she and Hope listened to.

Chapter 98: rusty electric purple VW Transporter

Chapter 100: Triumph T120 Bonneville I really hope this is close enough because omg motorbikes have a bazillion little shiny pieces and this took.. a while.

Chapter 101: The Clash gig at the Lyceum, I figured they'd have seen one on the way to the gig...

Chapter 103: back to my first love, Sybills zines.

Also chapter 103: the Portastudio and manual

ALSO 103: the demo!

Chapter 105: Slasher Chick ft. Marauders and my dodgy Photoshop from when I did that.

Chapter 107: the red pressed EP!

I've got a couple more little bits and pieces and then COVERS!

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Kings of Cool: Triumph “Legend” Scramblers by @fcroriginal, inspired by Steve McQueen: “Bikes created exclusively on the basis of the Triumph Speed Twin 900 and Bonneville T120, paying tribute to the Scramblers of the 70s. Mythical enduro machines, made famous by Steve McQueen, today synonymous with freedom.” More today on BikeBound.com. ⚡️Link in Bio⚡️ https://instagr.am/p/CqSssoXrUml/

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Triumph Bonneville T120 & T120 Black.

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sirius' motorbike, part 1

i started researching stuff for a timetravel au where genderswapped harry potter was gifted an enchanted motorbike like sirius', got distracted from writing because real life is so much more interesting than shitty worldbuilding by a terf, and basically just hadn't done anything.

but i have headcanons!

hagrid rides two different bikes in the movies- a bonneville in the first movie, then a royal enfield with a watsonian sidecar in DH1.

in the first movie specifically, they used a 1959 Triumph 650cc T120 Bonneville. pretty fast, pretty big, pretty classic, and an incredibly British motorbike. it would make sense for sirius, freshly disowned and getting a not-insignificant inheritance from his uncle in golden galleons, to buy the most muggle thing he could.

and what's more muggle than transportation? although public transportation, arguably, is more human than having personal equipment you can use to get around (since the wizards used brooms to that effect before specializing in portkeys and manufacturing brooms primarily for sports), you cannot tell me that posh sirius, who grew up as a sheltered magical heir in the middle of muggle London but wouldn't be in a place to socialize with them, would care for the Tube during rush hour

being born with generational magic arguably means that inhabitants of 12 Grimmauld Place would use the floo or apparate instead of using the front door, where they had the chance of running into filthy muggles. and having a front door that is nothing more than decoration is such a rich people thing to do honestly.

so sirius would probably have bought a bonneville. he probably sat around the cafe racers in london, acting cool and undercover though everybody could tell he was too shiny and weird for the place, and more or less caught the motorbike bug. like a thrillseeking college-age kid with too much money to burn, of course he'd choose to buy a liter bike for his first motorbike, possibly secondhand from one of the racers he'd befriended because he believes it's much more better broken in and all that

now, as to whether sirius actually liked being a motorbike owner...

i reckon he did. i don't think sirius played quidditch, though regulus in canon played, but he would fly around with james sometimes- i reckon he's a speed demon gryffindor like his other half. him on a bike and james on a broom in the skies would lead to soooo many great shenanigans that the world outside of 70s london would not be able to handle

and there's two pieces of extra-canon stuff that give evidence to this. the first being this photo from the props department for DH1, a motorcycle manual that can be seen in sirius' old bedroom.

the motorbikes, motorbike company, and publishing company were all fictional, but if sirius had a manual presumably before he ran away in 1976, it would mean he was really serious (lol) about owning a motorcycle, if not riding

when he bought the motorbike is answered in the other extra-canon thing i mentioned. the terf once wrote a sort of prequel story for a charity auction (which later got stolen lmao?) which detailed freshly-seventeen james potter and sirius black giving the muggle police the run around in london

the story goes that they were on a night out, going beyond the speed limit, and when cornered in an alley they used the thing to fly abovehead

i don't have a copy of the actual story though i'm sure someone somewhere has it printed out and framed in their home. however, the story does have james and sirius lift up the police car to crash into three broomriders, who were also presumably about to arrest them for using magic in front of muggles (but NOT for underage magic)

the story took place three years before harry was born, so sirius black already had a motorbike and made some memories (and perhaps, highly illegal unregulated enchantments) on it on 1977.

this bike would've improved and gotten deadlier when he lent it to hagrid that night in godric's hollow, where he said that he "won't need it anymore."

i like to think sirius did not go ghost rider on peter when he could, because you can't really ride a motorbike safely when in a vengeful all consuming rage- that leads to death, and with death comes a lack of vengeance, and damn it if he won't avenge james.

the bike hagrid was using would look the way sirius rode it last. at first glance it doesn't look like it has any mods, so if sirius enchanted it to fly amongst other things, it would probably be spelled or carved into the engine or the body. the terf didn't really make it clear how the magic system in her fuck ass fictional world works, so we're left to interpret how enchanting stuff permanently/long term would work, as in the case of quidditch brooms or the entirety of hogwarts itself.

hagrid would use sirius' motorbike once more, to rescue harry potter from privet drive permanently (and for some, seven years too late to do so)

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