Triumph Trident (1972 T150V)

[florence]

My friend keeps trying to get me to buy his which he has lying idle in one of his sheds, running well and extremely low mileage, and he wants hardly any money for it.  I keep wondering whether to take him up or not.

[Sesman]

Yeah, why not?

[Tony.B]

Clarification on where the Trident was built. The engines were all built by BSA at Small Heath, Meriden built the T150 rolling chassis and added the engine. When the Meriden sit-in happened, Dennis Poore's NVT partly had to re-tool, and were able to retrieve some tooling from Meriden, to make the last T150's in their factory. As said before, Hurricanes and T160's were built by NVT.

[Bryanj]

One thing to note is that if running at 70 plus you MUST turn on both fuel taps AND keep the tank topped up.

The taps dont flow enough to feed the carb at the other end ptoperly so that piston runs week and holes, they do use oil and replacing a gearbox sprocket is a days job with a couple of "special" tools.

Yes i used to work on them and the 'orrible white cardinals!

[Skoti]

Certainly not as user friendly as the CB750, but back in the day Tridents were more than a match for them on race tracks.

Plus that amazing note of a Trident on full song with ray gun exhaust silencers was always a sound to savour.

[Sesman]

Did he buy it?

[Laverda Dave]

I'd have bought it, last of the line for the brut bike industry.
There's a YouTube video made by 3 Phil's worth watching. It's about the trials and tribulations he had with his own T160.

[Sesman]

Yes, seen that. Brought back a few distant nightmares. Cranks, clutch, case cracks, valve guide wear, broken pushrods…. It goes on. I’d still have one, though😀