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The Triumph Thruxton is a twin-cylinder, air-cooled British motorcycle manufactured and marketed by Triumph Motorcycles and launched in 2004. The Thruxton is heavily based on the company's Bonneville model, with hallmark café racer-style modifications — including clip-on handlebars, rear foot controls("rear sets"), small fly-screen, white faced instruments, reverse cone exhaust silencers and bodywork with a prominent rear seat cowl and contrasting racing stripe.
The motorcycle is named after Thruxton Circuit, a race track where in 1969 Triumph won the top three places in the Thruxton 500 mile endurance race. These were the same races that established the "café racer" era, when standard production motorcycles were modified to improve street and racing performance.
