Malcolm Uphill wins in the Isle of Man
in a strong position to take advantage of the popularity of production racing during the 1960s . Malcolm Uphill won the 1969 Isle of Man Production TT on a Bonneville , which became the first production bike to lap the island at 160km / h . Uphill and Percy Tait had won the prestigious Thruxton
500-mile production race in 1965 , and the Triumph factory dubbed the Bonneville the fastest production bike in the world . It was a dream machine for the café racer set . Triumph didn ’ t support racing in the way that Norton did , or even over the years Velocette , Rudge , or AJS . Although very successful on race tracks all over the world , most of the efforts were supported by private owners . Production racing was Triumph ’ s forte , and the reputation as a performance machine was built in this arena . Not until the early 1970s , when the factory backed Trident race bikes appeared did Triumph fully support a race team , and then mainly in America .
MODEL UPDATES The first Bonneville had the familiar Triumph headlight nacelle , but it was
Re-born Bonneville 2002
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