Triumph Trident Rob North Racer

Triumph ended their factory racing program in the mid-70s due to budget restrictions and increasingly competitive two-strokes from Japan, this could have spelled the end for the marque on the race tracks of Europe and North America but a small band of privateers kept the Triumph badges on the starting grid.

Privateer racer John Parker built this Trident in the late 1970s, over the course of its active life it would compete in over 120 races including outright wins in 1979 and 1981. Perhaps most famously it won the 1981 “Classic Race of the Year” against some exceptionally quick competition.

In order to wring as much performance from the triple cylinder Triumph as possible it was fitted with a Norman Hyde big bore kit, a Rob North frame, a stroked crankshaft, works TH6 cams, works steel-billet con-rods, lightened timing gears, triple Amal 30mm carburettors, works specification valve gear, Lucas RITA electronic ignition, a Quaife 5-speed close-ratio gear cluster, Ceriani forks, Essex wheel hubs, Borrani alloy wheel rims, Lockheed front brake callipers, and a 3-into-1 exhaust system.

Triumph Trident Racer