Reader Ride! Triumph Trophy 250 from Portland, OR

UPDATE:   Contact info is: Andrew Wilson

andruu4@hotmail.com

I'll leave it up for a week or so.

Andrew Writes in:

Hello Steve,

Just wanted to share some pictures of what was my daily rider this season. It is a back to bone stock 1970 Triumph Trophy 250. Matching numbers with the original paint on the tank. It is actually for sale if you could maybe post it to try to help me out. The wife and I are relocating cross country soon and she said I have to pick one motorcycle to go... darn. 

Great site!

Thanks

Andrew

I don't do a lot of "for sale" post but this is one of my favorites.  Wish I could buy it myself.

Reader Ride. A nicely done Scrambler.

Thanks Ian! Well done. I like the Norman Hyde pipes.

Reaader Ride with "Bonus Triumph Pics.

Aaron sent me a nice silhouette shot of his stable the other day along with a link to his flickr stream.  While perusing his photos I stumbled across this stunner of a custom Triumph Scrambler.  WOW!  Aaron I hope you don't mind (and if you do I'll pull them immediately) but I'm a huge Triumph fan and couldn't pass these up. 

By the way your original submital is excellent and included below. I'd love to see more angles of the Duck and especially Beemer.

Thanks Very Much

Aarons original note:
Hey!
I got a bit inspired on Sunday and had some fun with my DSLR and Photoshop; I ended up with what I think is a very good photo of my two bikes ('75 BMW R75/6 and '06 Ducati Multistrada 1000s) that you and your readers might like. The original is attached, and other sizes are at my flicker acct (under a Creative Commons license, so feel free to use what you like), here:
Cheers!
---Aaron

Here's the shanghaied Triumph...

And the original submittable.  Excellent Shot!

UPDATE: One of a Kind Custom Triumph Scrambler. Freaking Wow...

UPDATE: Here is the previous post I had of this beauty from Dec 09. Man what a looker!

I'm sure I've posted this bike on here in the past but I don't have time to dig up the link at the moment.

Now it's FOR SALE

The description from the for sale ad lists the following:

What it is: 2002 Triumph Bonneville motor with 2 35mm Mikuni Flat Side Pumper carbs, 4130 Cromemoly TIG welded frame with 46mm KX500 Forks (10.7" travel), Rear single shock CR500 (10.8" travel). Hand made Aluminum 5+ Gallon tank. & Side panels, Two sets of wheels, street & Dirt on Excell rims (have their own sprockets & rotors), Scotts Steering Stabilser, ICO Speedo, hand made High pipes with Jardine mufflers. Renthal Bars.

Hey come on Triumph! Build us all one!

One more "Jack Pine Special"

Thanks to our official MPOTD roving reporter Mike Skelton for the find. I love that this pic shows that the bike is ridden for it's intended purpose and not just a show queen. I bet it''s a decent handler to boot. Hey Triumph how about a stripped down version for the general public! I imagine it's be a bit more practical with the sidepipe but I still like the dualies.

The Triumph Scrambler "Jack Pine Special"..

I haven't had time to check so this may be a re-post and if so I apologize.  I keep coming across this bike on the web and I keep coming back to oogle it.  It may push me over the top to just buy a darn scrambler and get on with it. God she's a beauty...

Triumph Scrambler PrOn...

Some Nice Aermacchi / Harley Scramblers Sitting in the Shade at Riding Into History.

High Pipe Commando

Reader Ride. Yet another Stunning Triunph Scrambler.

Thanks to reader Piet Vauterin of Belgium for this excellent bike. One of these days I going to HAVE to get one of these. I spend enough time staring at them I might as well buy one.  Of course by that logic I'd also have to own a few Guzzi's, Vincents, Ducati's etc etc... but I could live with that. LOL

 

 

Stunner of a BSA Scrambler!

Reader ride. Fantistic scrambler done up as an old school "desert racer" from Italy.

I recieved these pics and a message all in Italian. I ran it through 3 different translation programs and sorted it out the best I could. It reads as follows:


Hello, I am Italian and my name is Carl,
I have built my bonnie in the style of an early desert racer which I have always admired. In 51 years, I have owned and admired many bikes including the ducati scrambler 350 and yamaha xt 500. I wish I had never sold them but I was young and had little money.

The changes are entirely handmade, the work of a friend and I in choice of details.. Exhaust, seat, handle-bar, headlight carried all the way to the stripped bodywork, I adore the bare metal.
Thank you for your site, great job for us fans
I'm sorry I do not write so well in english.

Here is the original message,  If someone is fluent in Italian and can assist with the translation it would be VERY much appreciated.  I'd like to learn everything I can about htis beautiful creation and pass it along here.  I'm pretty sure some key information was "lost in the translation" so to speak.  Thanks.

Original message cleaned up a little  as follows:
Ogg: foto triumph desert sled ceva

Ciao, sono italiano e mi chiamo Carlo, ho messo mano alla bonnie per
renderla il più possibile vicina allo
stile desert del quale sono sempre stato un ammiratore, premesso che ho 51anni,
ed ho poseduto negli anni qualche motina sullo stile, ducati scrambler 350, yamaha xt 500, mannaggia a quando le ho vendute mà ero più giovane e pochi denari.
Le modifiche sono interamente artigianali, opera di un amico ed io nella
scelta dei particolari.


Scarichi, che sound, sella,manubrio, copripignone, faro incassato tre le
forcelle, ecc non me le ricordo tutte, a il serbatoio e sverniciato portato a ferro, adoro il ferro....


Saluti e sempre comlimenti per il tuo sito, grn lavoro per noi
appassionati, mi scuso ma non sò scrivere in spagnolo.

Reader Ride. One tough Triumph Scrambler.

Mario Spatarella sends in some pics and video of his tough looking scrambler. I love the pipe treatment and blacked out wheels.

Thank You Mario!

Here's a nice Video.

Ducati Scrambler.... Damm that's nice!

Outstandind Royal Enfield Scrambler build. A fresh chapter of the Sam Simons Chronicles!!

Sam has built so shared so many interesting bikes with me that he has his own search term over in the cloud.  do yourself a favor and check out some of his other excellent builds.  His 2-stroke bikes are legendary.  you can see more of his stuff over on my 2 Stoke Biker Blog.  I havn't heard from him in a while and I fugured he'd been up to something special and as usual he doesn't disappoint.

Sam writes in:

Hello Steve,
Been a while,huh. Well,although I've been involved with several non-motorcycle related activities,I did manage to finish the RE500(just yesterday!!).The basis for this 60's theme street scrambler was a new,dealer leftover '07 Bullet my wife located in Ohio late in '08. I bought it for the sole purpose of doing just such a bike,which made for a really odd feeling when I purchased a new machine that: 1) I 

 
So,I hope you enjoy the pics,Steve.


Always a pleasure Sam!  Keep em coming!

 

Almost forgot... The before picture!!

Another Stunning BSA Scrambler.

Man do these bikes make nice scramblers.  Just Georgous!

Video Update to a Recent Triumph Post.

Found this video of a bike I posted on earlier over on the excellent (an all Italian) Ottonero Blog. He has a lot more pictures posted of this bike at the link. Please check him out!

50cc Ducati Mountaineer.

Saw this Triumph and just said WOW!

Damm that's sweet. Saw this over on the excellent all Italian Ottonero Site. Chek him out

Gold Flake Scrambler.

This beauty has been picked up by a few different biker blogs already but I'm so taken by it that I'm going to post her here too. Big shoutout to RocketGarage and Motochimp