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Tribsa
The Tribsa, or Tri-B.S.A., was a Custom motorcycle, custom built café racer or Off-road motorcycle, off road motorcycle of the 1960s and 1970s. Its name was an Amalgamation (names), amalgamation of Triumph and BSA. The purpose was to combine the best elements of each marque to give a superior bike to either. A Tribsa involved a Triumph Engineering Co Ltd, Triumph straight-twin engine, parallel twin engine installed in Birmingham Small Arms Company, BSA motorcycle frame. Although both the BSA A65 Star, BSA A65 and the Triumph Bonneville, Triumph 650 cc twins engines were overhead valve engine, overhead valve (OHV) units, only the Triumph had twin camshafts, which facilitated tuning for greater power output. The BSA frame was a duplex-cradle design which was considered stiffer and stronger than the Triumph's single downtube item. A batch of nine TriBSAs were planned by the factory (which factory?) for the 1966 International Six Days Enduro, ISDT using 348 cc, 490 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TriBsa 57
The Tribsa, or Tri-B.S.A., was a custom built café racer or off road motorcycle of the 1960s and 1970s. Its name was an amalgamation of Triumph and BSA. The purpose was to combine the best elements of each marque to give a superior bike to either. A Tribsa involved a Triumph parallel twin engine installed in BSA motorcycle frame. Although both the BSA A65 and the Triumph 650 cc twins engines were overhead valve (OHV) units, only the Triumph had twin camshafts, which facilitated tuning for greater power output. The BSA frame was a duplex-cradle design which was considered stiffer and stronger than the Triumph's single downtube item. A batch of nine TriBSAs were planned by the factory (which factory?) for the 1966 ISDT using 348 cc, 490 cc and 'special capacity' 504 cc 'short' Triumph twin engines in a frame using geometry from the BSA Victor scrambler, Victor front forks and wheel together with a Triumph QD rear wheel in a Triumph swinging arm (''swingar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
