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I was unaware that Les Harris continued building Bonneville's from 1983 through the early 1990's when production picked up with the newer bikes. Is there any production numbers to share on the number of bikes Bonneville's produced from 1983-1989? All my HD friends always put down the brand saying the were not "continuous" and I would love to have that information to share. Great letter and clearly you are an expert on Triumph history!



I'm not an expert, just passionate.

Les Harris only built bikes until 1988. But, by then Triumph had their new manufacturing plant (in Hinkley) and were in production, and development but did not have a new model out the door until 1990. So, there were two years without new models, but they werfe operating and manufacturing. We didnt see Triumphs back in the U.S. until 1995.

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