2006 Triumph Bonneville reviews

• Triumph Bonneville: Riding a legend reborn (Motoring.co.za)

  

  Model(s) covered: 2006 Triumph Bonneville

  There is a class of middle-aged, born-again rider for whom the return to motorcycling is mainly a matter of style.
  They recall heading out to the Hawkwind gig on their very own silver machine and yearn to repeat the experience.
  
  Very often they congregate at Harley-Davidson dealers to drool over the sculpted chrome and sheer retro loveliness of machines such as the XL883 Sportster.
  

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• Triumph Bonneville has style and stomp (Motoring.co.za)

  

  Model(s) covered: 2006 Triumph Bonneville

  When I first rode Hinckley's re-creation of the Triumph Bonneville in 2001 I said it would sell largely on style, mostly due to less-than-stellar performance and a seat like a vinyl-covered plank.
  Others thought the same because the current version benefits from a quicker-revving, parallel-twin engine that uses its claimed 60Nm at 3500rpm to considerably better effect.
  It's difficult to quantify without a rev-counter (bad mistake, Triumph – the original Bonnie of the late 1950s was a serious sports bike and always had a rev-counter) but the 2006-specification Bonneville pulls with authority from just above idle and will tolerate full throttle from there until it hits the rev-limiter somewhere beyond 7500rpm.

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