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    Living with a Trophy

    Aug 26, 2019 5 minutes
    WORDS BY MATT
    PHOTOGRAPHY BY
    CHIPPY WOOD AND MATT

    IF YOU DON’T LIKE PEOPLE, DON’T BUY AN OLD TRIUMPH. Park up, pull in for petrol; even stop at traffic lights and you’ll be recalled stories of how ‘they’ used to have one ‘just like that’. I’ve heard courting stories, been told horrendous detail about accidents and even one chap that told me, in great detail, how he outrun the husband of a lady he’d been caught with… But if you do like people, or stories from strangers, then great – buy one!

    I love my bikes, but they are fairly lowly in the old bike snobbery stakes. So when I was offered the chance to live with a Trophy I jumped at it. After hearing so much about Triumph twins,

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