2019 Triumph Speed Twin - Hair On Its Chest

First ride in Mallorca on Triumph’s new Speed Twin muscle bike version of its iconic Bonneville parallel-twin range.

Check out Triumph’s ever-growing Bonneville family of Modern Classics, and until now you’d have found eleven different versions currently available of the British manufacturer’s iconic – yes, it’s the right word – parallel-twin range, which was resurrected back in 2000 by company owner John Bloor. Since then, no fewer than 313,994 examples of the born-again Bonneville have been produced, making up around 40% in any given year of Triumph’s production at its two factories in the UK, and three in Thailand. So that makes it a key ingredient in the modern day success story that Triumph Motorcycles represents.

But now Triumph has gone back to the future in making it an even dozen different variants in its 2019 Bonneville line-up, with the unveiling last December at an event in Paris of an all-new addition to its range of Bloorera Bonnevilles. For to mark the 80th anniversary of the model which essentially invented not only Triumph’s trademark design format, but indeed what came to typify the UBM/Universal British Motorcycle in the UK industry’s post-WW2 golden era - until the Japanese spoilt the party Triumph has revived the Speed Twin designation to attach to a model that gives its customers more for less in performance vs. price.