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Triumph : Bonneville Triumph Bonneville Royal 1982 Limited Edition

$7,500

Elk Grove, California

Year 1982

Make Triumph

Model Bonneville

Category -

Engine 750

Posted Over 1 Month

1982 Triumph Bonneville Royal750cc Aluminum WheelsRuns and drive great, very clean bike. Very Rare Motorcycle: See Description Below. CELEBRATING A ROYAL WEDDINGBy 1982, Triumph was on the ropes. They were unable to re-engineer their bikes they way they needed to, or even produce enough units to make a profit, due to their severe financial constraints. It was thought that lower-volume, higher-profit "special models" might save the day. Several were proposed and a few were tried. Most fizzled in the marketplace. One such effort was the T140LE Royal Wedding, built to commemorate the British royal wedding of Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer. Built in very low numbers, believed to be less than 1,000, the Royal Wedding was styled differently, depending on which market it was intended for. Why did they do it? Who knows? To build two different models of the same limited-edition special that was already being built in minuscule numbers doesn't make much sense today looking back. But who knows what they were thinking at the time. US-SPEC ROYAL WEDDINGThe US-spec Royal Weddings looked pretty much like normal T140ESs with with mag wheels. But they got a model-specific black paint job with gold pinstriping and no kneepads, dual front disk brakes, and blacked out fork sliders and headlight brackets. Not much uniqueness for a "special". The UK-version was by far the more handsome and "special"-looking.

Trim T140LE Royal