Readers Ride: Triumph Bonneville Spirit.

Readers Rides

This is a readers rather nice Triumph Bonneville "Spirit" special edition.

Triumph say that the Spirit "captures the style and effortless cool of the 1950's Bonneville".

They launched the Spirit to pay homage

to the Triumph Bonneville owners who

have been customising and modifying

their bikes since they were released in

1959.

The owner of this particular Spirit

limited edition must agree with this

customising tradition as he has

continued where Triumph left off.

To begin with Triumph bestowed a

unique Spirit Blue and New England

White paint scheme. They then added

black bars, mirrors, front mudguard,

wheel rims and hubs. Next they lifted

the black smaller headlight unit from

the black smaller headlight unit from

the scrambler, added white stitching to

the part textured seat unit, and the

finished off with a shorter Thruxton rear

mudguard.

This is where our reader picks up

adding lower bars, an led light/tail tidy

unit and arrow remap. A K&N intake

system has also been added, meaning

the removal of the original airbox and

airflow sensors (which must have been

mapped out during the arrow remap).

The owner finishes this all off with a set

of Triumph Performance Dominator

slip-on end cans.

The owner states that this is not the

end for the Bonnie, he plans to adjust

the gearing (going down two teeth at

the gearing (going down two teeth at

the rear sprocket), fitting a wider rear

wheel and tyre combo and adding a

Triumph Performance Dominator

manifold to the slip-on's.

To these eyes this looks a great bonnie

and a fitting continuation of the

modifying tradition that Triumph have

based this limited edition model on.

By Liam Sollars

The Spirit, Mingling with the Supersport class, and it does it very well indeed.