Supercharged Triumph Speed Triple RR.

The last forty years have been a whirlwind for Triumph, from dead broke in the early '80s, to over a billion dollars in revenue for 2024. Crucial to the British bounce back was the success of the Speed Triple, the three-cylinder naked with its unmistakable twin headlights, which gave the manufacturer a genuine performance bike from the beginning of their revival. But when they refer to it as “the ultimate sports bike for the road”, you know the marketing department is on the pull. But builder extraordinaire Jody Millhouse saw the potential to make those lofty dreams a reality, when he spied the half-faired Speed Triple RR. And holding absolutely nothing back, he and his team at Thornton Hundred have built the ultimate hooligan machine, a supercharged sledgehammer for the street. When you enter a class that contains the Ducati Panigale V4, the BMW M1000RR and all of the best superbikes from Japan, claiming to be the ultimate is a statement that you better be able to back up. And while the stock RR is a brilliant machine and one of the best-looking modern bikes Triumph has ever produced, it simply can't hold a candle to its classmates. Shedding a good 30kg and gaining 30hp at the crank would have got it there, but those are big leaps when you're already pushing the limits of what you've ever achieved as a company. Enter Jody Millhouse, he doesn't just take a good Triumph and make it better, he smashes through the glass ceiling of what others thought was possible, and delivers in tyre-shredding style.