Triumph Trident (Hinckley)

The Hinckley Triumph Trident is a three-cylinder motorcycle of either 750 cc or 900 cc, produced from 1991 to 1998 at Hinckley in Leicestershire by Triumph Motorcycles Ltd, the successor to the defunct Triumph Engineering of Meriden. It was launched with the rest of the new modular range at the September 1990 Cologne Motorcycle Show and reused a famous name from the Meriden era. The Trident has a liquid-cooled double overhead camshaft engine in a large-diameter steel backbone frame shared with the four-cylinder bikes, with Japanese suppliers providing brakes and suspension. The modular design let Triumph build further models from it, including the Sprint sports tourer and the Daytona sport bike. A twin-headlight fairing created the Trident Sprint in 1993, which dropped the Trident name by 1994, and Motor Cycle News later called the Trident 900 one of the best of the early Hinckley machines.