A FLASHY TERRIER
lot of people don’t know about the Triumph T15 149cc Terrier, which arrived on the scene a year before its much better known ‘sports’ version, the 199cc T20 Tiger Cub. In its rather short day the Terrier had very good performance, much better than the available two-strokes of similar capacity. The Gaffers’ Gallop of 1953 proved this when three senior factory men did an End-to-End ride (plus a bit more at either end), to record 1008 miles over five days, at an average speed of just under 37mph and an average fuel consumption of just over 108mpg… and
