Paging 850 Combat...Triton.

[steve murdoch]

I know you and i share a love of Tridents so i figured you should see this beauty.
Well at least part of it is a Trident.
I think it looks great. Hopefully it sounds and runs just as well.

http://www.bikeexif.com/custom-triton-motorcycle

[harley10]

Wow very nice bike , what year is that ,Brian

[Jethro]

Oh man, need a sound clip of that baby!

[dorkburger]

That is unbelievably cool...

[850 Combat]

Cool. That is the only Trident Featherbed I've ever seen. I've seen CB750s, Sportsters, Vincents, Triumph and BSA trins in Norton Featherbed frames, but never a Trident. The 3 into 3 is cool.

I built this Norton Atlas Caf? in the 70s and sold it in the 90s. I bought this Trackmaster framed Trident in the 80s and sold it in the 90s. Had a pregnant wife and a broken back at the time.

Those Norton Featherbed frames won GP races for years and years.





Of course here is me and my Hurricane at The Lookout in the late 80s.

[slayer61]

Of course here is me and my Hurricane at The Lookout in the late 80s.

That looks very much like the lookout over Lake Elsinore on Hwy 74 aka "The Ortega Hwy" Been there many times.. What a STELLAR piece of highway!

[BigD_83]

...you should see this beauty.

http://www.bikeexif.com/custom-triton-motorcycle

Now there is a caf?-styled bike that every bobber builder wannabe should be forced to look at for a week before touching a tool.

Thanks for posting.

I'm not a big fan of reposting images, but (I think) this is worth it:

[850 Combat]

That looks very much like the lookout over Lake Elsinore on Hwy 74 aka "The Ortega Hwy" Been there many times.. What a STELLAR piece of highway!

The Ortega is OK. Crowded.

The part of 74 from Hemet to Palm Desert is much much better, in my opinion.

[oldgrumpy]

Now there is a caf?-styled bike that every bobber builder wannabe should be forced to look at for a week before touching a tool.

Thanks for posting.

I'm not a big fan of reposting images, but (I think) this is worth it:

....... hi guys thats 1 sweet bike regards oldgrumpy

[steve murdoch]

Searching around i finally found some footage.
The video part doesn't load very well for me but the sound is not too bad in spots.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=335023793293267&set=vb.162556400540008&type=2&theater

[English Bulldog]

Sweet bike

A Triton is on the must buy list the day I hit the lottery

[slayer61]

The Ortega is OK. Crowded.

The part of 74 from Hemet to Palm Desert is much much better, in my opinion.

That may be NOW, but my recollection of hwy 74 was from when your pic was taken. I moved to NORCAL many years ago, and haven't seen Ortega Hwy since!

[Bert Patterson]

The Ortega is OK. Crowded.

Early to mid-70s, I used to ride out there a lot - first on a Bonneville, then a '71 Commando. It wasn't too crowded then, but you'd get 50+ bikes at the lookout. I read something Egan wrote about going there several years ago and it sounded bumper to bumper.

[850 Combat]

Early 80's I used to wait at the fire station and take out after sport bikes on my Atlas and try to chase them down. It wasn't very fast then, but there weren't many straights in that area. From the Lookout to Elsinore, I would sometimes go after them with a 441 Victor, which went OK downhill. I owned a rental house in Lake Elsinore from '83 to '93 or so, and kept most of my bikes at my brother's house there for when I wasn't in Alaska.