Triumph Speed Twin

Triumph Speed Twin, Edward Turner for Triumph
London Motorcycle Museum, CC BY 3.0

The twin that set the pattern for British motorcycles for thirty years.

Edward Turner made a twin that fitted in an ordinary frame. Almost every British maker followed with twins of its own.

Materials: Steel frame, parallel-twin engine

Manufacture: Made in Coventry.

The narrow twin-cylinder engine, no wider than a single.

The red-brown paint, Amaranth Red.