Hello I'm Anthony Godin, classic bike dealer. I'm going to take you through some of my
top 10 underrated and undervalued classic Triumph motorcycles, the way I see it. In no certain order
and starting with the smaller capacity ones. Tiger 90, nice bike, 350cc. I know this was
mentioned in a previous video but there are other versions of the 350cc Triumphs. There's the 3TA
which is a slight different version of that bike and of course the T21 which
normally covers the bathtub bodywork. They're not so popular but still very, very good value bike.
Moving on to 500cc. Tiger 100's, still a nice bike to ride, plenty of power, and then the
most significant change of that is the Tiger 100 Daytona. Now, in most classic Triumphs when you add
an extra carburettor that they have on the Triumph Daytona, it doesn't seem to make much difference
but apart from that model. That model works really well, has a lot more power. Most classic Triumphs
are getting reasonably value these days so it's quite hard to find one in the entire model range
that's good value, but the T140s, the 750 Bonnevilles, are really good bikes. The oil
in frame bikes are sort of much maligned but I'm not really sure why they had some early production
problems, but generally speaking these are still really good classic bikes. They're easy to maintain,
they have plenty go in them. In some ways they're slightly better because they've got better brakes
and better ignitions. They are still good value compared to a lot of other classic Triumphs.
Most of those bikes, you know, are from the 70s and equally so the earlier T120 oil in frame bikes.
The T120 Bonnevilles from '72 to '73, they're going to be significantly less
than you'd buy a Bonneville for, built say in the 1960s. Still very nice bikes. Have a
rather quirky 70s styling of their own that I think is coming into fashion a bit more.
Equally so, the single carburettor versions of those bikes, what was the Trophy, then became the
Triumph Tiger. They are available in the 750cc. Much rarer bike, don't often see them knocking around
but when you do I think they're cracking value compared to what else is about of that same era.
The other thing that one might consider is,
people put a lot of emphasis on classic motorcycles, especially Triumphs that are matching
number. You know in real terms, it only takes a difference of value, of about a thousand pounds,
and the non-matching number bikes are still going up by the same increments. So if you really want to
find a classic Triumph that you really want to have, a Bonneville of some description,
try and find one that doesn't match because you will pay a lot less for it and it's still the
same bike. There's no reason why you can't enjoy it and have much fun with it as everything else.
Moving on from that into the 80s sort of era of Triumphs, the John Bloor era. Those bikes
are not quite as popular but are cracking value by comparison to some of the other stuff
that came later. The engines were built by Cosworth, so they had loads of power. So
I'm talking about things like Speed Triple, the Trophy that they built in that era.
Really nice motorcycles. Actually really well built as well, so a lot of the examples that
you'll find now they might be slightly higher mileage than you'd want but very, very good bikes.
And then of course you've got the 955 Daytona. Now that was a completely new engine revision.
I remember selling them when they were new, they were great bikes.
They are becoming more valuable but they're different, you know. You don't see them
around a lot and so I think that they are still representing good value in the current market.
Probably the best one of that era is the 600cc TT. Again, you don't really see that
many of them. I looked a couple of days ago and was surprised at how inexpensive they
are for what they are. A great alternative to any of the Japanese 600cc sports bikes and
and still a cracking thing to ride. So there we are, my favourite Triumphs of the last few decades.