VOL. 54 ISSUE 2 JANUARY 17, 2017 P67
T
riumph's all-new Bonnev-
ille Bobber is a stylistic
and dynamic tour de force
from a company that makes
bikes quite unlike anything else
in the marketplace, especially
those powered by three-cylinder
engines.
But the Bobber isn't another
triple—instead, it's the latest
member of the British manu-
facturer's massively expanded,
thoroughly re-engineered, born-
again-one-more-time Bonneville
parallel-twin range. It's a modern
British take on a Yankee-style
hot rod that's cool, capable and
competent, as the chance to be
one of the first group of journal-
ists to ride it through the streets
of Madrid, the capital of Spain,
and out into the surrounding hills
on a sunny winter day's press
launch, adequately proved.
The new Bonneville Bobber
looks fantastic in the metal, with
brilliantly executed styling of
a bike that will only be sold as
a single-seater, and which, in
spite of the low 27.1-inch default
height of the seat that'll make the
Bobber accessible to riders of
all heights, proved really com-
fortable on a 130-mile day's ride.
The floating aluminum seat
pan surmounted by a nicely
stitched foam pad is surpris-
ingly accommodating, with zero
numb-bum syndrome after a day
spent sitting on it, and it's adjust-
able forward and up or rear-
wards and down over a 30mm
range, albeit only with tools.
COMFORTABLE
Triumph
breaks
every
mold
it
can
get
it
hands
on
and
presents
for
you,
a
factory-
built
bobber.
It's
good,
too!
BY
ALAN
CATHCART
PHOTOGRAPHY
BY
ALESSIO
BARBANTI,
PAUL
BARSHON,
FRIEDEMANN
KIRN
AND
MATTEO
CAVADINI
Style for days. The
Triumph designers
hit a homerun on
this one.
