A great video clip again educational at least to Triumph fans/owners. The Trident sounds ok but I would love to hear it with a set of straight through megaphones, I should imagine the sound would stay with people for years to come.

From a '75 T160 owner, very informational. Bought new in Feb of 1977 and took me through me next 10 years with narry a problem (Like OKC to Beaufort S.C, up and down the eastern seaboard...and back to OKC and even out to Tuscon) Did a few top ends, pretty easy to work on. Been sitting ready for me to go through the engine again for 30 years. Fortunetly, I have a '72 Daytona T100 Daytona as a (one of) daily driver......but it aint no beast of a 3 cylinder Trident.

Such a shame to have to baffle such a Majestic Beast!! Thanks for Sharing!

MyKiwi Pal in Canada has a North BSA Rocket3 superb bikes.

That's a pretty bike

Sweet!

Motor sounds great. Nice and quiet.

I own a 1974 T150V, last of the right gear changes. My good engine hearing tells me that this bike, at this time of the start up and rev, is only firing on 2 cylinders, hence the lazy fluffy sound. You can easily hear the difference when compared to a clean running tuned Trident, as on some other videos. Im sure they have it sorted now. And No, its not the muffler making sound "off", its the fact that it is not firing all 3. Probably the middle one too rich. Nevertheless, a nice bike.

@stevecompton6283

9 ай бұрын

Agreed. Sounds like it aint running on 3 cylinders.

Oh what a sound 👍

Silenced 😢 sacrilegious 😢

That tach had a 9500 RPM red line?

@BigAl53750

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, with the racing ones, they painted a red line on the tach at around 11,000 RPM, because at 11500 they found the pushrods would jump out of the cam followers. I believe it was Percy Tait who was the rider who came up with the idea. Given that the RPM @100mph was 7100, the speed @ 9500RPM would have been impressive.

Nice noise. But the same old nonsense being perpetrated about the centre cylinder being hotter and needing a bigger main jet and a hotter spark plug. Don't believe it folks.

@russellwhite4086

2 жыл бұрын

First time in 45 years of using one that I've heard that crap. Don"t believe it is right.

@stevecompton1439

2 жыл бұрын

@@russellwhite4086 It's BS mate. It's lore from when these bikes first came out that continues to perpetrate. Talk to those that race these bikes and use a dyno to set up and nobody uses any different settings for the middle cylinder.

@BigAl53750

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, there is a casting issue with the middle cylinder exhaust port being restricted and a factory advisory fix was to have the port ground to allow better flow from the central exhaust port particularly. My first ever motorcycle was a 1969 Trident and some years later I owned a 1975 T160, so Ive always loved them. Currently rebuilding a 1974 Trident for a friend of mine.

@BigAl53750

2 ай бұрын

I once had someone tell me that the reason the centre cylinder got over heated was because of the front wheel obstructing the airflow! The sad thing is that he was dead serious!