For the more mature among us?

[Bonez]

Wrong. Electronically timed at 113mph at the MIRA test track, 1959. later models were a bit slower 111mph.

Sorry, they where ment to do 120mph.

[Bonez]

I assume it's the one with the Triumph sticker on the tank?

LH gearbox cover is a dead giveaway.

[Bonez]

Rode a W650. Powered up like a CB400N, and handled even worse than a standard Bonnie.
Oh, and the bevel drives arn't the best either. But whatever floats ya boat.........

But it does come standard with a kick start and centre stand

[Ixion]

Sorry, they where ment to do 120mph.

Hm. On thqat basis the T110 failed also.

[Bonez]

Hm. On thqat basis the T110 failed also.

And the T100. Grand sales pitches though.

Just like the "Ride the Leg end" ones.

[MD]

and I could pick it without enlarging the thumbs.

Speshial treasure:

Few pages from the 1967 brochure.

Shit!! It's the Moors murderers, Brady & Hindley, in pic. 1 & 4. I hope the Manchester Police have copies of those mags.

[eliot-ness]

It's a general misconception, no doubt encouraged by Edward Turner who devised the system, that the model numbers were an indication of top speed. The numbers did in fact originate in the 1930s with the models T70, T80 and T90, 250, 350, and 500 sports singles. The T100 followed the sequence, and, according to the press at the at time, was capable of 100mph. With 33bhp and weighing 167 kgs it should have reached that figure. BSAs Gold Star 350was 34bhp, 105mph. The T110 and T120 were logical model numbers to follow after the war. I'm not sure about the T110, the wife had the 1961 model which would show 110 on the clock two up, possibly just over 100mph true. The unveiling of the Bonneville in 1958 claimed nothing more than a top speed of over 110mph. The 1963 T120 had an R added, which of course was immediately misconstrued by the buying public to mean racing, it in fact meant nothing and was dropped the next year
The post war T100, slower than the original, eventually led to the 1969 T100C, Daytona which was faster than the Bonneville of that year, 113mph.

Despite his other faults Turner was a marketing genious and knew exactly how to pull the customers, start a rumour and let them do the rest. A ploy that some of the Jap firms still use

[Gibbo13p]

I personally think it looks like an old Yamaha but I like it