A BLACK BEAUTY?
Nothing succeeds like success – and Triumph’s commercial savvy in creating the T120-based Bonneville Bobber and launching it a year ago as a factory-built answer to today’s so-cool garage-built customs has been richly rewarded. But the British manufacturer’s original guesstimate on how many it would sell proved way wide of the mark, leaving it struggling to keep up with demand. Triumph has so far sold two-and-a-half times more Bobbers than it originally projected, which surely caused owner John Bloor and his management team more than a few headaches – of the right kind.
But now those production problems are going to worsen, because one year on from the Bobber’s debut Triumph has extended its range. They’re introducing what amounts to an Evo version of their Bobber that’s sure to find even greater favour with customers around the world, as a modern British take on a Yankee-style hot rod that’s cool-looking, capable and even more competent. That’s because the unwieldly-titled Triumph Bonneville Bobber Black – let’s just call it the Black! – which it launched last November and which will reach dealer showrooms globally early in 2018, incorporates the few improvements the original Bobber needed, as well as a styling update that makes it look even tougher and harder than before.
Just like Henry Ford’s Model T customers, owners of the Evo Bobber can have any colour they like so long as it’s black. This means that all the chromed or polished alloy items on the stock Bobber are now either anodised, powder coated or painted black, including the exhaust headers and silencers, footrests, gear linkage and foot lever, brake and clutch levers, the
