For more insight into the T-Birds styling, check out an interview with Prentice.
Its fuel tank, though curvaceous and seamless, seems to sit a little too high because of clearance needed for the engine’s vertical cylinders. Clean lines and the remarkably uncluttered liquid-cooled engine are its highlights. Tim Prentice, who has styled the Honda Rune, Yamaha Road Star and Triumph Rocket 3 Touring, spent the bulk of three years working on the T-Bird project with Triumph. There’s also no such thing as a viable cruiser that’s ugly, so the UK-based Triumph turned to an American designer to define how an inline-Twin cruiser should look. A pleasantly tight turning circle is an unexpected bonus. The handlebar greets hands a bit further forward than some laid-back cruisers, putting a rider’s spine in a comfortable position slightly rotated forward. There’s no such thing as a viable cruiser with a tall seat height, so the T-Bird boasts a wide and well-padded saddle 27.6 inches above the ground (same as the Dyna), and this ensures a cruiser-typical feet-forward riding position. A beefy 47mm Showa fork is raked out at 32 degrees with 151mm of trail, while dual Showa shocks with 5-position preload adjustability (wrench under the seat) anchor down the back end. A twin-spine steel-tube frame uses the engine as a stressed member for a stout platform within its fairly tidy 63.6-inch wheelbase, 0.6 inch shorter than the Harley Dyna Super Glide Custom that Triumph used as one of its targets. Torque crests at 2750 rpm with an alleged 108 ft-lbs.Īside from that parallel-Twin affront to Big Twin cruiserdom, the T-Bird plays the rest of the game in a straightforward manner. Triumph claims this new mill pounds out a claimed 85-hp peak at 4850 rpm when measured at the crankshaft.
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Thumps from the 800cc pistons are quelled with twin balance shafts (front, rear) plus a crank-mounted torsional damper. This all-new “T-16” engine, at 98 cubic inches, is the world’s largest production parallel-Twin motor.
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