1967 TR6C
This motorcycle is as perfect as it gets, the Triumph TR6C and its most sought after year of 1967 with the incredible forest green tank.
Triumph racing.
TR6C was the "Trophy Special" with high pipes and folding footpegs. The TR6C Trophy Special was built at the request of Triumph's sole US distributor at the time, Johnson Motors in southern California, as a way to target the growing number of desert riders. Making the TR6C a stock desert racer.
This TR6C was built in 1967. Riders would say that the ’67 was the last competition-oriented TR6C. “Later bikes were posers and street scramblers.” It has the 649cc engine that Edward Turner believed to be the largest that a vertical twin engine could be built and still provide a comfortable ride, a 9:1 compression ratio, an ET (energy transfer) batteryless ignition system, improved drum brakes, telescopic forks with dampening rods (only used on TR6Cs and TT Specials), and a better oiling system. The slimline tank held 2.5 gallons. It came only in a pretty mist green and white.
Mulder and his TR6c
Born in 1943, Eddie Mulder grew up in the motorcycle heyday of California, a state of wide open space perfect for two-wheeled wanderlust. Eddie’s father worked for legendary rider Bud Ekins, whom Eddie beat in the 1959 Mojave Hare Scrambles at the age of 16. Bud Ekins was so awestruck by young Eddie’s performance that he introduced Eddie to the Triumph factory racing team, where Eddie soon gained sponsorship, and thus set the budding legend on the path to success, fame, and greatness.
Eddie was a leading member of the Checkers MC, the winningest off-road motorcycle racing club to have ever existed. He was so good among such revered company that he was known as “Fast” Eddie Mulder. Eddie raced a TR6C often and made it even more of a desired model for triumph riders.
