{"id":52946,"date":"2021-07-13T14:56:52","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T09:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/?p=52946"},"modified":"2021-07-13T14:56:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T09:26:54","slug":"watch-out-as-the-triumph-bonneville-bobber-goes-drag-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/watch-out-as-the-triumph-bonneville-bobber-goes-drag-racing\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch out as the Triumph Bonneville Bobber goes drag racing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">With the <a href=\"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/top-5-specs-of-the-2021-triumph-bonneville-bobber\/\"><strong>Triumph Bonneville Bobber<\/strong><\/a> producing a stock 77 horsepower, you might not think of it as a racing machine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">But as noted in our previous coverage of this launch (which is linked below), you&#8217;d be hard-pressed to beat the Bobber on any road ride, so clearly, there is some serious performance potential in Triumph&#8217;s classic motorcycle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">And that potential was magnified when Thronton Hundred decided to take their bikes drag racing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">But what started as a simple custom build soon evolved into something much more complex.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The two-cylinder Triumph bobber was the canvas for a <a href=\"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/stefan-bradl-talks-about-the-importance-of-test-riders-in-motogp\/\"><strong>more intense competition<\/strong><\/a> bike that could go toe-to-toe with some of the most revered European super sports bikes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">To combat the added stresses of supercharging the<a href=\"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/the-hot-2021-triumph-bonneville-bobber-arrives-in-five-shades\/\"><strong> Triumph<\/strong><\/a>, they kept the stock oil pump as is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Worlds Fastest Triumph Bobber - Official Trailer\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0VDnXY85Da0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">On top of everything they did to make the build more reliable, custom heads were fabricated precisely for drag racing, with improved flow.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Since this engine would be breathing through a big pipe and a Rotrex supercharger, everything had to stay cool.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">To do so, the TH moved the heads up by 3\/4 inch, and a gigantic finned aluminium radiator was installed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Later the team had put an old NOS that made the power reach as high as 200 hp.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The bike is still a work in progress, and the team is making changes in the suspension.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">via\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/thorntonhundredmotorcycles.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Thortonhundred\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":52950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,39],"tags":[22924,23209],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52951,"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52946\/revisions\/52951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}