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- Triumph_Quadrant abstract "The so-called Triumph Quadrant (aka \"Quadrent\") was a \"bitsa\" designed and built in secret by Doug Hele in 1973. It was a 1,000 cc four-cylinder motorcycle made up from Trident parts (although the camshaft was sourced from outside the factory). Essentially, the fourth cylinder came from grafting on an extra middle crankcase unit; but since the primary chaincase and final drive sprocket could not be relocated, the fourth cylinder protruded on the right hand side of the bike. The top speed was reputedly 125 mph. Quite why Hele developed this motorcycle is something of a mystery, as the lopsided machine could never have reached production to compete with modern Japanese machines such as the Honda CB750 or the Kawasaki Z1. An inside view is that Hele's efforts in building the Quadrant was a waste of precious resources that (given NVT's precarious status) should have been directed elsewhere, such as getting the 900 cc triple \"Thunderbird III\" to market sooner.The National Motorcycle Museum in the UK and Roy Bacon, the author of “Triumph Twins and Triples”, hold a different opinion of the Triumph Quadrant prototype than the above posting:TRIUMPH 4 CYLINDER 1000cc PROTOTYPE.....the Experimental Department under Doug Hele and based at Kitts Green, looked ahead for a successor (to the Trident) and built this interesting four cylinder prototype which just had to be nicknamed “The Quadrant”.The crankcase was made by machining two triple cases and then welding them together before the final machining was done. The cylinder block, the head and camboxes were all produced in the same way, but the crankshaft was built up and the camshafts specially made and carried cams with mild timing. Most other parts were from the triple or twin suitably modified where necessary. It pulled a top gear of 4.2 to 1 and ran to nearly 125mph with the mild cams. (Courtesy “Triumph Twins and Triples” by Roy Bacon). Only one was made but as a piece of ingenious and highly skilled engineering, it would be hard to beat.".
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- Triumph_Quadrant wikiPageWikiLink Triumph_Trident.
- Triumph_Quadrant wikiPageWikiLink Category:Triumph_Motorcycles_Ltd_motorcycles.
- Triumph_Quadrant wikiPageWikiLink Doug_Hele.
- Triumph_Quadrant wikiPageWikiLink Kawasaki_Z1.
- Triumph_Quadrant wikiPageWikiLink Multi-cylinder_engine.
- Triumph_Quadrant wikiPageWikiLinkText "Triumph Quadrant".
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- Triumph_Quadrant subject Category:Triumph_Motorcycles_Ltd_motorcycles.
- Triumph_Quadrant type Vehicle.
- Triumph_Quadrant comment "The so-called Triumph Quadrant (aka \"Quadrent\") was a \"bitsa\" designed and built in secret by Doug Hele in 1973. It was a 1,000 cc four-cylinder motorcycle made up from Trident parts (although the camshaft was sourced from outside the factory). Essentially, the fourth cylinder came from grafting on an extra middle crankcase unit; but since the primary chaincase and final drive sprocket could not be relocated, the fourth cylinder protruded on the right hand side of the bike.".
- Triumph_Quadrant label "Triumph Quadrant".
- Triumph_Quadrant sameAs Q7844525.
- Triumph_Quadrant sameAs m.026t6g2.
- Triumph_Quadrant sameAs Q7844525.
- Triumph_Quadrant wasDerivedFrom Triumph_Quadrant?oldid=695889847.
- Triumph_Quadrant isPrimaryTopicOf Triumph_Quadrant.