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I was highly entertained to receive a lengthy grump from a German Frank – he was called Frank and was a German, so there’s nothing subtle going on here. Frank was grumpy because – among many other things – I’d never written up a Tiger 750, the single carb version of the Triumph’s almost certainly legendary 750 twins. I was sure I had, in fact, but memory is a fickle beast at best, so I had to go check, which in this electronic age is pretty easy to do.

Guess what? He was correct. I’ve never written up a Tiger 750 for RC – unless you know better, in which case please feel free to enlighten me. That said, I’ve ridden quite a few of them and have almost always enjoyed the experience. In fact, in the now it can be told dept, the long-ago loan of a Tiger prompted me to experiment with fitting a single Amal to a Commando – and each of the few Commandos I’ve owned since has enjoyed that very conversion. Why? Because I think that old Brit parallel twins run better with just the one instrument doing the suck thing of the suck, squeeze, bang, blow 4-stroke cycle. Other views are of course available.

And there’s another reason – and I think that Triumph really did