Triumph Bonneville 790

The Triumph Bonneville 790 is a British motorcycle designed and built in Hinckley, Leicestershire, by Triumph Motorcycles Ltd between 2001 and 2007. It was the first new Bonneville in fifteen years, launched at the Munich Motorcycle Show in September 2000, and it carried a 790 cc air-cooled parallel-twin engine with a 360-degree crank and twin overhead camshafts in place of the old pushrod valve operation. Development began in 1997 as an entry-level medium displacement export project, and the styling team worked from a fully restored 1969 Bonneville T120 to link the heritage look to a modern handling frame. It produced about 61 bhp, used a five-speed gearbox taken from the Triumph 955i, and was replaced in 2007 when the engine size grew to 865 cc.