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.
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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.
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Valentino Rossi and Monster Energy put together a 3 car team and partnered up to shoot VR’s exploits at the wheel of a WRC Fiesta for the 2011 edition of the Monza Rally Show. The MotoGP GOAT doesn’t get a load of time to throw a rally car round with a co-driver barking out calls but let’s face it, he’s got a knack of being super fast on in any kind of race format. Over the course of the weekend, Valentino come a close second (in 2 race formats) to multiple WRC champ Seb Loeb and even beat the ace in the 2 stages he topped. Behind him sat last year’s winner Dindo Capello and WRC great Dani Sordo.
When Vicki Golden was a little girl, she says she felt bad for beating the boys. Growing up, she saw dads apply pressure, even yell, at their sons for being beaten by a girl. The now 19-year-old Californian is still beating the boys, but she no longer feels bad about it. Starting in January, in a first for the sport of Arenacross, Golden has been added to the lineup of the most successful team in arena racing history: Babbitt’s Kawasaki. In doing so, she will become the  … More