Anstey's
Winner.
As
a regular Monday Volunteer I get the chance to look through he
magazines that are lying around and over the past few weeks I have
found a couple of interest. From a 1984 Motorcycle there was a test
report on a Triumph TRW, notably logged for future reference and an
intriguing picture of a 1926 Panther TT that had been suitably
modified for sprinting published by the VMCC 1969.
We have a Panther
650cc model in the Museum attached to a Watsonian sidecar. The modern
version still retains the distinctive style that Phelon and Moore
came up with so many years ago.
Continuing with the magazines the
latest Nacelle, Triumph Owners Club magazine, March 2016 featured the
2003 Triumph Daytona. The 600cc four that Bruce Anstey raced so
successfully at the Isle of Man that year and winning. Nacelle have
done a feature on this bike with a full page of pictures. If you want
to see the real thing it is in the “Home of Triumph” hall at the
Museum.

I have sped my way through another book "Full Circle" as I hibernate from the cold. I did manage to do just under a hundred miles the other day visiting an old friend at Chieveley. The book encompassed the world of climates and was the trip made by Richard and Mopsa English on their four and a half year marathon covering over 90,000 miles in their quest to see interesting places and people. No back up only their own determination to see it through and keep their Triumph 650cc Thunderbird pulling their coffin shaped sidecar. Needless to say we have this one at the Museum too!
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