Product Review

In the mid-1960s the Triumph factory prepared a full racing version of their already successful Tiger 100 sports bike. It was the most successful production-based racer of its time and twice (in 1966 and 1967) won the most important race in the USA, the Daytona 200. In addition, it was also capable of gaining podium places at the ultimate level of racing at that time - the 500cc World GP Championship. This was proved with a second place to the mighty and literally invincible MV Agusta Grand Prix racer in the 1968 Belgian Grand Prix at Spa Francorchamps - the fastest circuit on the GP calendar. It was an incredible performance by a machine based on an ordinary road-going motorcycle. This volume of 'The Motorcycle Files' tells the story of that Belgian GP and the Daytona 200 successes and outlines the career of the bike's development genius, Doug Hele. In addition there are tests of both the Grand Prix and Daytona versions of the machine by one of the world's leading motorcycle journalists and racing machine testers, Alan Cathcart, plus full technical information. Finally, it is well illustrated with a large selection of both colour track test shots and monochrome archive photography. The colour shots include numerous close-up views of the bike's technical features.