At a young age I heard stories of my grandfather riding Zündapp and Jawa motorcycles after the war with grandma on the pillion and my father on the fuel tank. It proved to be a basket case but the bug bit me.
That year I bought a 1974 US-spec Triumph T150V. I’m 43 years old and into classic Triumph’s since 1999. “I found some pictures of an original desert sled with a metal coffee can covering the air filter and that was exactly the look I was after.”īelow, we get the full story on this T140 scrambler! Triumph T140 Scrambler: In the Builder’s Words We especially love the desert sled air filter can built from a paint tin: The donor needed a ton of TLC, but with two decades of Triumph experience and spare parts, Ton was ready for the challenge. He’s built bikes under KRUK Customs, but this was an individual project, a 1979 Triumph T140E built in the image of the old desert sleds. He also works on classic bikes and does the layout and design for Tiger, magazine of the Triumph Owners Club Netherlands (TOCN), where he also records his travels, including an annual trip to Britain, riding and camping alone. Today, Ton campaigns a 1969 T150 short frame production racer called “Mellow Yellow,” racing in Germany, Belgium, and France. “It turned out I wasn’t too bad and I was offered a seat of one of their T150 short frame production racers that next season. In 2013, he rode his Triumph Trident to the UK for the annual Beezumph meeting at Cadwell Park racetrack, where the crew from Lowland Triples Classic Racing recorded his lap times:
It got me interested in classic bikes I guess.” “At a young age I heard stories of my grandfather riding Zündapp and Jawa motorcycles after the war with grandma on the pillion and my father on the fuel tank. ‘This is a motorcycle whose pegs your grandmother could drag,’ noted another.”Įnter our new friend Ton Everaers of Holland, who’s love affair with classic motorcycles began early: ‘It sometimes feels like the Bonneville turns if you just think about turning,’ one tester said. “Contemporary testers raved about the bike’s excellent handling, citing its low weight and low center of gravity. Motorcycle Classics calls it one of the best Bonnies ever: Introduced in the early 1970s, the Triumph T140 Bonneville was the 750cc evolution of the 650cc T120, featuring an oil-in-frame design, 360-degree parallel twin, gear-driven cams, twin Amal carbs, five-speed transmission, and most models had front disc brakes. A Triumph triple racer builds himself a scrambler…
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