Peter Egans' is the first column I read when my issue of Cycle World arrives in the mailbox. The finest motorcycle journalist EVER !!!

As I keep watching this video afrer years, it keeps being one of the best about motorbikes charm

Watched this vid about a dozen times, can't get enough, beautiful piece of machinery!

So two iconic beautiful Triumphs and a Triumph.

his comments on a carb vs efi....so true. I grew up feathering the throttle to find power when needed...and it's the reason I still own a carb bike today for MY pleasure. When my wife rides with me...we take the giant Ultra Limted with all the goodies (2016)...but when it's just me...I like the old bike. Raw and unrefined and has my heart.

I always pick up this issue and read it over and over again by far one of my favourite bikes. Great job!

Love this bike and thank you for this interview. My dad was a desert racer back in the 60s to 80s.

one of the best videos on youtube!!! and the bike............there's few things left in this world that are real cool , but this bike is definitely one of them....

watched this a million times. what a beauty!

And before I watched this I thought it would just be a show piece. Hats off to you sir!

That beautiful motorcycle, the cleaning of its incredible lines. Congratulations.

Awesome he rides those roads like he is 100% sure that no one else is on them. SO COOL!

Awesome - that film made my day!

Best interview ever. Love the way it's set up. Also beautiful bikes. Keep it up!

Great video, scenary and beautiful bikes!

Love seeing bikes like this ridden like that.

Best video yet, I hope to see more like this in the future.

This is hands down my favorite video and bike.

Had a 1971 TR7 Triumph desert sled in the early '90's. Guy built it to ride in New Mexico. Had a polished Husky tank, huge screened head light off of I have no idea what. Bates seat, high pipes and nobbies. Traded her for a half finished café racer of the same mark a few years later. Been kicking myself in the ass for thirty freakin years! You wouldn't believe what I traded a set of Moto Guzzi Eldorado's for around the same time! Ah hell, live and learn lol.

Absolutely love it! Nothing beats watching a full size bike flat tracking around fire roads.

Looks like the Alabama Hills. The hills are on the east side of the Sierra Nevada just west of the little town of Lone Pine (US 395). This is the area where the old black and white western movies were made; Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Lone Ranger etc. The old hotel in town has lots of momentos. Cool place to ride.

WOW! That was so cool. There are no words to describe how much i'd like to go riding there... Thank you so much for making this video! / Thumbs up from me

I like James Loughead's perspective on letting the motorcycle "be what it is". There's a sort of cultural expectation (in the modern age, at least) of making the motorcycle do what the rider wants - a desire to make the motorcycle do the conforming. I tend to be more of the mindset that every bike has their own personality, and that there's an enjoyment that can come from learning to accept each bike for what it is and not trying to make it become something that it's not.

Great work mate thank you.

Nice relax film and review !!!

Really great video - and now really want a desert sled!

Lucky me! I still have my 1976 Triumph Bonneville T140V purchased new January 10th, 1977. I took the stock mufflers off dropping the weight from 395 lbs to @ 365 lbs, I did put on a wide handlebar, took out the foam seat and raced her on a motocross track against my own (other rider) 1977 Suzuki RM125C. I lead for 3 laps until while flat tracing with the back end hung all the way out in a left curve my left boot got caught up in some really deep loamy powdery grey sand and pulled me down. You need to know my bike was so much faster everywhere. You also need to know that I had crushed my pelvis and dislocated both of my hips back in 1972 so I was just not as strong, nor did I have the stamina to race a street desert sled on an motocross track for more than 3 laps. I'm positive had I been uninjured I could have kept up the lead all day long. P.S. I did win every street cafe race on Long Island NY with curvy back roads (think Isle of Man TT roads) for 10 years from 1977 to 1987 only stopping when I got married and put her in the garage. No one I have ever met can claim winning every street cafe race for 10 consecutive years. That's how good an owner maintained Bonneville really is. I took her out again in 1992 and cafe raced against a brand new Kawasaki Ninja 1100 and Honda V4 1000cc Interceptor and won! Handling is the key that and the ability to stop from 60 mph in 111 ft. as my Bonneville can She is still totally stock. Never spent a penny for aftermarket parts except the wide handle bars and that was because my brothers father in-law wanted to "only" kick start my bike, he froze up and his eyes glazed over and he put her in gear and drove right into a tree in the backyard, bending my stock handlebars. I raced on Stock Dunlap K70-H street tires as well, they look as if they are almost semi knobby they provided the exact amount of grip to let me know when I was sliding and that only happened at 10/10th's riding- which is racing. You know what she is parked around 20 feet from me as I type this. I love My Triumph Bonneville with all my hart. It changed my life. I went on and became a mechanical designer and I am now disabled and retires but still riding at age 65. So yes I would recommend a new Bonneville as it still has a Parallel twin with a 360 deg crank or the version in this video which has the 270 deg crank!

Absolutely gorgeous!

Superb Bike!!! Same as what I do on my 1979 or 1981 Yamaha XT500 enduros every week,,,ride the country roads in Nebraska, and it's the best kept secret among those who do it. Everybody thinks showing off their ego, chrome and loud pipes on pavement is where it's at,,,well go right ahead. I've been a life long rider and said goodbye to pavement, stop lights, road ragers, & cell phone texting drivers. And ego is left in the dust when I can go 5mph or 50 mph on country roads,,,alone in peace!

Inspiring! Leave it to Cycle World to introduce this wonderful machine, and shoot a video that makes you want to bust-ass to save and buy one, or build your own. After over thirty-years of subscribing to CW and reading religeously, this bike has inspired me more than any other. Classic lines, off-road capability and a coolness that McQueen himself would surely approve of...

I love the old school concept and who doesn't. I've got a 2015 KTM xcw and it a rocket but i'm going to go and pick up my aunts 1969 Suzuki 250 and fix it up and its probably going to be more fun. There is something vulnerable about the older heavier bikes.

i like the beginning!it's increddible!

Great info! Huge fan of desert sleds! Just released a video of my first day out on my '57 Pre Unit TR6. Thanks for producing this great video.

very beautilful bikes, love the off-road style of this video

2024 still my favorite build. the Jack Pine

might be the best vid ive ever seen on youtube

Looks like a blast!

Hi, awesome bike!!!! Fantastic!!! Good Ride!!

That's freaking cool!

Wow what a machine. I'm in love.

Great looking bike, awesome video work..

Great video, thanks 👍🏽

This the best way to describe what is LIFE about!!!!

thats awesome, i want to get my hands on one!

fantastic, More please.

A great portion of this was filmed in the Alabama Hills, Lone Pine, Ca.

Reminds me of my younger days around Taft Ca. Trs & Bonnevilles and BSAs A-10s & DBDs fire roading chasing jackrabbits.

the history of Triumph is built on the vast numbers of guys who saw the wet spot on the pillion seat where the girl sat. It's rather like Harley in that way - the Bonneville was the UK's Harley with it's unique exhaust note and vibration. With the new 900cc Scrambler Triumph revive old memories, for the 270 degree crank on a parallel twin seems to invoke the same sound and vibration that the common crank pin V twin of the Harley does. If Harley and Triumph sell enough of these machines the sex toy business will go bankrupt

The coolest bike ever!

love the back drop of lone pine

awesome. simply awesome

i wanna live there.. what a cool vid!!

I love these Bikes!!!!!!

The Triumph 900 . great bike to ride and have some light fun on, I have one. I took all the heavy crap that Triumph put on it, made 10 kilos lighter , got about 15 bhp more out of the engine ,with some tweaking. and I love it,

Great video - dirt track Triumph bikes at its best

I have an 1973 yamaha sc500 2 stroke. Its a great all around bike. Good in the dirt as well as on the road. The funnest bike Iv ever ridden, and one I will never sell. So easy to control and handle. And I clocked it at 103mph on stock motocross gearing. They don't make bikes like that anymore. Scramblers are great.

Well, I never knew until I "HEARD" this vid that the Triumph used a 180 degree crank.... Great vid...

This bike- It's my dream !

Insane!

Great bike! Inspiring! What pipes are used in the video?

Triumph one can feel the real motorcycle feeling

Still have my `68 TR6R I bought in `69. Still riding it and it's still strong an so purdy.

I thought the Triumph TT was one of the best looking bikes back in the 6o's. Great camera work and location.

I love you Triumph

bad ass! I think my next bike build for youtube will be a scrambler !

Great bike,great road

wow id love to own,n ride 1 of theses bikes,much rather have that than a new bike,its got the look and the sound,great bit of work m8,keep it up.

Cool very cool..

what type of rear shocks? and is front end stock?? how much travel does it have front and rear??

this is my kind of dirt bike!

Looks like one of those old Isle of Man TT bikes. I liked the look of the old Matchless TT bikes best.

hi Imolegregg,what i ment was i like the bike,and the way it looks.As it has the old,Brittish scrambler look,☺

I've been wanting a Scrambler for a looong time. Great video! I suspect I'll have one in the garage soon after watching this now. Seems to have the endorsement of the great Peter Egan as well. What else does a bike enthusiast need to know?!

GREAT CHANNEL! :-)

VMX Handle Bars - you can get them of the hammarhead industries site or online elsewhere

Egan on video. nice. Really nice bike too.

RIDE ON BROTHERS:) Cheers;)

Excuse me, what model is this "Hammarhead Jack Pine Triumph"?

Love the water bottle.

NEED IT

that model of bike is that of the movie? che modello di moto è quella del filmato?

Reminds me of an XT....in feel with it.

High resolution but low quality Love the vid!

What exhaust are ran on this bike?

Nice. In the day, desert sleds were pretty competative, but then came the two strokes and creamed them. Maico's, Husky's, CZ's, the four strokes were moving over. But it's all about being in the dirt on two wheels in the end.

Movie Flats Loop (Alabama Hills) tons of old Westerns were filmed there. I think 700 movies.

@stoweVT7170 Out near Lone Pine, CA, but we don't want to give away our secret spots....

never saw a video with over 30k views without a single dislike, i mean this video and the presented bike itself are just too awesome to dislike...

Don't forget to mention Randsburg Ca.

The music is brilliant - could ya tell me the name of the band?

what style of bike is this called..?

James Loughead (aka Hammarhead Industries) took many people's money, but did not deliver the bikes, and has since disappeared. Hipster con man, "perception" indeed.

Indeed.

Very lovely.. this is were the US has it, the landscape, to give you the places to wander over, this long track capability/requirement. This gives you the opportunity to require a greyhound/pit bull cross.The lack of suspension movement, to allow this long sleek line, but the distance to require big soft power, guts & grunt, not edge & zing.Get the dust covers right, the grease nipples to clean bearings & a chain guard to keep the chair ware real, and then old gods of Meriden will smile on you.

This is like a modern day cowboy movie

All l wanna know is where was this video filmed ? It looks like a hell of a nice place to go riding.

It's a great looking bike but if your serious about riding a bike off road then you really should be looking to have the rear brake calliper on the top and not the bottom of the disc as it would only take one rock to knock the brake off.

If I owned that I might turn into steve Mcqueen

where was this filmed???

Alabama hills, Trona and Jo'berg