1959 Triton
No Reserve

Registration No: 709 UXN
Frame No: 82551
MOT: Exempt

• Unusually powered by a potent 750 triple
• Equipped with many desirable period café racer features
• An very appealing project for light refurbishment

The Triton is perhaps the most enduring symbol of 1960s motorcycling culture and remains the archetypal British special. Combining Norton’s legendary Featherbed frame with a Triumph engine (usually a high-performance twin), it gave rise to the café racer style which remains popular to this day. The Featherbed had been developed for racing before it provided a skeleton for some of Norton’s greatest road bikes, but Triumph’s engines were readily available, easily tuneable and tended to be livelier and stronger, hence their unification was a match made in heaven.

Registered as a 1959 machine, this Triton combines a ‘Wideline’ Featherbed frame with the unusual but appealing choice of a c.1973 Triumph Trident T150V inline triple. It uses a standard air filter and a Triumph conical rear hub, plus a very helpful double disc-braked ‘Slippery Sam’ front end, as used on the 1970s racing Trident of the same name. The clip-on handlebars, racing seat and megaphone silencers are, of course, the prerogative of any café racer, and flashing indicators have been fitted for convenience. Numerous invoices detail some of the work and modifications which have been effected over the years, and although unused for some time, the Triton has been started recently. Complete with the V5C, it promises to make a rewarding recommissioning project which will turn heads at any bike meeting.

For more information, please contact:
Mike Davis
mike.davis@handh.co.uk
07718 584217