Monday, 30 June 2025

"Get the bike!" My Triumph T140 Bonneville 750 is used in a shootout

In an episode of the legendary British cop show The Sweeney, indeed in "The Taste of Fear" one of the most legendary episodes, the bad geezers make their getaway on a bright vermillion Triumph Bonneville 750, taking potshots at Regan and Carter wiv' a shootah.
Back in 2018 I was lucky enough to purchase said Triumph Bonneville at auction, not knowing its history.
Ever since then we have become firm friends, though it is by now a rather drab shade of brown...

Here it is in action. The bike appears about halfway through, and you do have to endure some very curious background music in the lead-up.

I do think the director should have been encouraged to "leave it aht!"

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