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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in great condition. Very slight tan to page edges. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> There was no pedigreed equivalent of the Norton Manx Yamaha TZ Harley XR-750 or MV Agusta. Yet for five straight decades Tri- umphs excelled in all forms of American motorcycle sport. From 1938 to 1979 Edward Turner’s original Speed Twin and its descendants won virtually every major U.S. event worth winning while scoring countless victories in Amateur Novice and Sportsman competi- tion. And along the way they held the outright World Motorcycle Speed Record for 15 straight years. The inherent greatness of Triumphs as racing machines was in their humble production-line heritage their broad tuning potential and their versatility. These were motorcycles built in quantity to a price and designed for general use. There wasn’t an exotic among them. Even the relatively few purpose-built racing mod- els-the Grand Prix the close-pitch-fin 500-cc production racers of the late 1950s and the TT Special-were not inordinately better racing bikes than what Joe Customer could buy in any Triumph showroom and with modest effort and expense (and the TriCor or JoMo parts books) convert into viable competitors. The basic motorcycles had to be good and they were. Triumphs particularly the immortal twin-cylinder models could truly do it all. The ever-evolving ranges of 500-cc 650-ce and 750-cc twins featured a near-ideal combination of power balance and durability-certainly the basis for their TT and cross-country domination for so many years. Few if any machines of the period could handle everything from casual trail riding to punishing 500-mile desert races from two-up touring to National TTs and instill so much confidence in those who rode them. Besides their mark in the record books such ver- satility earns Meriden’s twins a deserved place alongside the world’s most famous racing bikes.