The historic brand has provided motorcycles for Marlon Brando and Steve McQueen, and now employs more than 1,600 staff through its high-tech base in Leicestershire.
Triumph sold almost 50,000 bikes in the year to June 30, 2011, to 30 different countries around the world. It recorded operating profits of £22.3m.
The company  … More
Most people who know what the first motorcycles looked like have only a vague image in mind. Fewer are those who know the brands, models, and vintage of the bikes, and those few are becoming even rarer. As each new generation is further removed from true classic motorcycles, it takes their fathers, their grandfathers (or grandmothers), and friends to show them how it all began.
2011 marks the year that  … More
A self-proclaimed “girly girl” and mother of 4-year-old twins, Katie Selman had never ridden a motorcycle.Until recently.
These days, the 31-year-old can be seen riding through South Tampa on her customized 2012 Harley-Davidson, or piloting the $20,000 bike through three counties for poker run fundraisers.
Selman won the bike in … More
Troy Bayliss and Ernesto Marinelli explain the features of the new bike going through the Mugello track in the different phases of a lap: starting from zero, braking, cornering, change of direction and acceleration.