The challenge Triumph gave themselves when redesigning the Bonneville was nothing short of Herculean. As a company whose entire brand rests on one hundred plus years of biking heritage, this is the bike around which their entire world revolves. How hollow would their references to legendary motorcycling heroes such as Steve McQueen and Marlon Brando sound if the new Bonneville missed the mark" So to this end, the brief from John Bloor, Triumph?s owner, was as clear as it was short. It had to be as good as the original ?59 Bonneville T120, ?and whatever you do,? he said ?do not fuck it up.
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