Triumph Thruxton

The Triumph Thruxton is a series of British motorcycles with parallel-twin engines and sports styling. The name first went on a hand-built endurance racer, the Thruxton Bonneville, made in 1965 at the Meriden race shop from the Bonneville T120 for homologation, and it recalls the Hampshire circuit where Triumph took the top three places in the 1969 Thruxton 500 mile race. The Hinckley company revived the name in 2004 for the Thruxton 900, an air-cooled 865 cc twin with cafe racer touches such as rearset footrests, a small flyscreen and a seat cowl, and in 2016 replaced it with two water-cooled 1200 cc machines, the Thruxton and the Thruxton R.