Triumph Motorcycles

I’ve talked before about our latest hardcover book: Ultimate Triumph Collection. Well the books are here and they are available from the Wolfgang website.

Each book uses 144, 10X10 inch pages to highlight and examine one of the best private collections of Triumph motorcycles in the world. Like any good motorcycle book, most of the pages are used to show off these exceptional bikes – with just enough copy to give readers some idea what it took to restore and maintain this many perfect Triumphs. They’re all here, from the Bonnevilles and TR6s that so many of us remember from back in the day, to the rare TT bikes and an awesome 3H from 1939.

Ultimate Triumph Collection is available for $49.95 plus $9.95 for S&H to the lower 48 states (Priority Mail). This book will not be available through the standard book outlets like Amazon and Barnes & Noble so get your book now while it's still available.

For a brief video view inside this new Triumph book, just click on the video located on our home page.

Ultimate Triumph Collection is in stock at Wolfgang Publications, and a few other select outlets, and not at the more typical book-stores.

About this time of year, most folks look at the calendar and think, “wow, it’s already mid-summer, I better finish up all those outside chores I have to do before fall.” Motorcycle people have a different perspective, for them the refrain goes like this, “Shit, Sturgis is almost here, and I still have to finish the paint job and assemble the bike.”

For all those who live and breathe motorcycles, the month before Sturgis is crunch time. Time to finish the paint job and install the new wheels, or at least get the oil changed and put in a new set of brake pads. In a hundred shops and a thousand garages, men and women toil through Saturdays and Sundays, all in an effort to get their ride in condition for Sturgis.

When it comes to meeting tight Sturgis deadlines, three heads are better than one, especially when the three have a family bond: Up front, Mark Shadley; in the middle, brother Paul; close up, Mark’s son Dean.

Speaking of working Saturday and Sunday, my current trip to work with Bobby Sullivan includes a stop at the Shadley Brothers shop in nearby Whitman, Massachusetts. And though it’s mid-afternoon on July 4th as I write this, brothers Mark and Paul, and Mark’s son Dean, are toiling away, trying to finish two brand new Victorys in time for Sturgis.

If you’re a die-hard custom bike fan, it’s tough to ride a stock motorcycle. Thus the need to customize not one, but two new Victory Baggers. One is receiving a relatively mild once over, while the other, Mark’s bike, came in for fabrication work. And because of a planned ride to Sturgis, the boys only have about two weeks to finish it all up. Like all their two-wheeled brothers and sisters, however, Mark, Paul and Dean, will indeed paint, assemble and finish the two Victory’s, even if it takes working the next three weekends. Because, like death and taxes, there are some absolutes in this world, and one of those absolutes is this: The bike(s) must run for Sturgis.

Compared to a Harley, the new Victory’s look ultra modern, with a two-piece cast aluminum backbone for a frame, no front downtube, and a solid-mounted engine that’s an integral part of the frame.

The Real Reason
The real reason for another trip to Boston is the Sullivan photo shoot. As mentioned before, Bobby Sullivan, owner of Sullivans, is also owner of an extremely nice collection of Triumph motorcycles, has decided to assemble all those bikes in one place in order to take a group photo. The plan includes not just a group shot, but individual photos of each motorcycle. All of which promised to keep me busy through the week.

So while Mark, Paul and Dean work to meet their Sturgis deadline, I work to shoot 75 Triumphs, both as a group and as individual machines. Stay tuned.

Seventy five beautiful and restored Triumph’s, representing an enormous commitment to one brand, and to restoration work of the very highest caliber.