Triumph Bonneville T140

The Triumph Bonneville T140 is a standard motorcycle with a 750 cc air-cooled parallel-twin engine, designed and built by Triumph Engineering at Meriden near Coventry. It continued the second generation of the Bonneville series that grew out of the 650 cc T120, and it was sold from 1973 until 1983, when the company was declared bankrupt and was bought by John Bloor. The first T140V machines had a 724 cc engine, a five-speed gearbox and indicators, and the engine was soon bored out to 744 cc with a front disc brake. Bloor licensed Les Harris to keep building it in Devon from 1985 to 1988, and those machines are known as Devon Bonnevilles. A single-carburettor version was sold as the TR7 Tiger.