Triumph Diana pic anyone?

[Big Dave]

Yeah that first link is awesome eh?
Dont think it helped BD any but its worth a scroll through.

worth a scroll through.

[Paul in NZ]

Taa - is it a copyright image Paul?

Urk - not sure, got it from..

http://www.vintagebike.co.uk/Bike%20Directories/

Looks like the picture is taken outside meriden but it's labeled 1983??

Erm - Sorry I can't be more help but I've never worried too much about keeping all the info in my head as all factories are always making prototypes and playing with ideas. - hell, I've even seen pictures of a Hesketh in Triumph livery... (bloody hell), 650 engines in bandit chassis etc etc.

They are just maybes and not really significant - to be honest, that engine looks fake to me which does jog a few brain cells.

[Big Dave]

I've even seen pictures of a Hesketh in Triumph livery...

It was on the front cover of Two Wheels.

[cc rider]

For what it's worth - the Thunderbird was reduced to 650cc not 600cc and was sold as a T65 I think.

Didn't the Thunderbird 650 became TR6 & there was a couple TR7 series.
The 'Diana' was to replace the 'Jubilee' right?
Did anyone find a photo of one?

[Big Dave]

see Post #13

[the mouse]

I have a little info from book Triumph Bonneville Year by Year book author Paul Hazeldine. There is a pic very similar of the donk from the other side and a darker pic of the mock up at the show taken from a front view angle, hard to see really. The text reads something like ...
The proposed Phoenix first mentioned late 1982 is a water cooled DOHC twin with 4 valves per cylinder chamber. It featured at the Birmingham Show 1983 as a complete bike mock up. It was placed in a remote area making close inspection difficult. It had four exhaust pipes, only two silencers, the engine a stressed part of the frame with a monoshock rear suspension, cast alloy wheels and disc brakes. They were up with the play really, what could have been.

The show display was in March despite the fact they had ceased production in January, and in August the company as history tells, went bung, the phantom bike was never made.

There is also a better black and white pic in "T140 and Derivatives" by Roy Bacon of the Phoenix 900 which says the engine was coded "Diana", now Roy is a Trumpy, Beeza, and Norty guru writing many books on these, he should know.

1982 there was also a TS8-1 model with 8 valve head and anti vibration frame, never made due to production problems. The TSS 8 valve head bike was based on this bike, there were a few plonking about NZ with their leaky heads, probally worth collecting now.
TSX was made at same time, same donk but had custom styled panels, a Bing carby and megaphone silencers.

Two other new models for 1983 and it's vague if any were produced. They were a 600cc Daytona twin carb, and a 600 cc Thunderbird single carb, both had twin disc brakes. I have no pics. They were 650's with a reduced stroke.

[Voltaire]

Found mention of it in the last couple of pages of a Triumph book, 650, 750 and 900 cc water cooled DOHC engines.
Then John Bloor beat Enfield India to the remains from the receivers.
The last picture shows a Hesketh 1000 with Triumph badging outside the factory.....hmmmmm a V twin Triumph....
I think I saw a Triumph Quadrant once in the Museum....a one off Trident like bike.

[the mouse]

This be it 1975
http://www.motorbike-search-engine.c...ic_bikes/7.jpg

and another ...
http://www.realclassic.co.uk/ridesfi...es04071206.jpg

The guy in the green made this home made version
http://www.triplesonline.com/events/...5/DSCN1558.jpg

[skidMark]

There are 3 settings on a lucas switch, off smoulder and ignite.

[the mouse]

Only if they don't self destruct first before you try turn em!

[pete376403]

This be it 1975
http://www.motorbike-search-engine.c...ic_bikes/7.jpg

and another ...
http://www.realclassic.co.uk/ridesfi...es04071206.jpg

The guy in the green made this home made version
http://www.triplesonline.com/events/...5/DSCN1558.jpg

All that work to make the replica, and then spell then name incorrectly...

[Paul in NZ]

There are 3 settings on a lucas switch, off smoulder and ignite.

Yeah - they are complete shit which would explain the 20 odd years I've owned my TR6C and only ever had 1 electrical problem. a worn out ignition switch... (caused the occasional misfire) Oh, and the near exclusive use of british bikes since 1973 with only 1 walk home due to electrics, an exploding alternator rotor at 100mph on a hot Norton 750... Bloody thing was only 18 years old at the time...

[the mouse]

I'm fitter than you then, probally have a bigger right leg too.

[Big Dave]

In the time I owned my T120 there wasn't a period where it didn't have an electrical problem. I was however more reliable than Trip's Norton.

[pete376403]

A friend had a 72 Commando, with the horrible Lucas switchgear. (for those who have never seen them, they were symmetrical - a button, a three position switch below and another button underneath. So they could be used as both left and right side switch blocks)
I have no idea how he discovered this, but the bike could be started with the key off if the left 3 pos switch was all the way down (or up, cant remember) and one of the unused buttons on the right side switch block was held down. Must have been some back circuit that was turning on the ignition. The Joy of Lucas...