Triumph Motorcycles 1979 BBC Archives
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Mark Savage
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Just watched it. I met the tester, Chuck Knight, and still mates with his son.
I don’t remember seeing it before.
I don’t remember seeing it before.
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Fast Eddie
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Just watched it.
A fascinating historical insight.
Kinda left me feeling a bit ‘down’ though !
A fascinating historical insight.
Kinda left me feeling a bit ‘down’ though !
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It was depressing for sure. I knew a few people that worked there. A wife of one of the guys who picketed worked where I did and literally got caught with her hand in the till and was fired on the spot, desperate times.
Did you see the TSSs?
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No.
I saw the 8 valve motor on the Dyno, but that’s a Nourish.
Are there TSSs? When in the vid are they?
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I possibly mistook it for a TSS motor then.
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Easy done. Cylinder head fin shape, exhaust rocker cover shape, and inlet manifold design are the big visual differences. But it’s interesting to see that design and development for the TSS was indeed well underway in 1979.
What might have been eh ?
