Built for for £4K: Dan Steward’s Triumph 5TA Desert Sled… Ed Turner — Triumph’s legendary designer and director — launched the original Speed Twin 5T at the 1937 National Motorcycle Show. The 500 parallel-twin […]| BikeBound
It's time for another round of coverage from the 2025 Bike Shed Moto Show, which boasted more than 250 custom bikes and 20,000 visitors. As in recent years, the show took place at London's East End Tobacco Dock venue -- a massive warehouse packed to the gills with bikes, bars, bands, and custom arti| BikeBound
What if Steve McQueen aka Harvey Mushman decided to build and race an XS650? In a strange twist of fate, the Yamaha XS650, introduced in 1969, took up the standard of the British twins that were going the way of the dinosaurs. As the storied British factories shuttered their doors, t| BikeBound
A Spring-Frame, Square-Barrel TR5 Trophy from Ton Up Classics... In the 1950s, Triumph dealer Bill Martin designed a spring frame for desert racing in Southern California. Production began in 1952, while Triumph wouldn't offer a swingarm frame until 1954. It didn't take long for Martin's| BikeBound
