Hi,

 

In the UK, the Triumph factory has a Triumph Factory Visitor Experience, which is a factory visit described here: https://www.triumphmotorcycles.co.uk/for-the-ride/experiences/factory-visitor-experience

 

Does anyone know if there is something similar at one of the factories in Thailand?

 

Thank you.

I would just ask Triumph.

Triumph Thailand is just an assembly centre.

Not a whole lot to see other than the bikes being bolted together.

Better off just to visit a dealership as the assembly facility is nothing like the visitor experience joint in Hinckley.

Thanks for the replies guys.

I contacted the UK visitor experience on Facebook, who confirmed that it does not have this in Thailand.

Manufactured not just assembled

 

Is Your Triumph Really British?

 

“Manufacturing started in 2002. The company decided to start with component manufacturing, beginning with the main frame, swing-arm and header systems. Until that point, we had never made our own fuel tanks, even in the UK. We had always purchased our tanks from a supplier in Europe, but because we had this facility in Thailand, we then had the ability to say ‘Okay, what else can we do with that’. About a year after that, we had decided to start making the fuel tanks there too.

 

“About three years later, we set up another factory in Thailand to do plastic injection moulding. We put a paint shop in there, and started to do some chassis assembly. Originally when we started that we were bringing the engines across from the UK and building them into the chassis (in Thailand) before painting them.

 

“An additional three years after that, we built our third factory in Thailand. Historically we’d always bought our crank cases from suppliers in Europe, but we decided that – to ensure our own quality standard– we needed to try something we hadn’t done. In that third factory we have expanded to high-pressure die casting, frame painting, crank-case and cylinder-head machining, as well as the full assembly process to build a bike. The Bonnevilles were some of the first bikes that we built there.”

 

Are any Triumphs still built here at the old Hinckley plant?

“We’ve got camshaft and crankcase machinery there. All of the cranks for bikes around world are made here. We have a paint shop, as well as a setup to prototype anything that’s made in Thailand. When we go into the development stages. A lot of the time the early fabrication for things like frames and swing-arms would be done in the UK. We have an assembly side here as well.”

 

And

85% of all Triumph motorcycles are now produced at the three Thailand-based facilities, with “8.5%…assembled at their Brazilian facility and the remaining 6.5% (TFC models)…built at one of the Hinckley plants.”

The dealers do organize rides and they used to visit the factory, this is not a regular thing though, also being where they are it's a <deleted>ty ride from Bangkok, no matter how short  

On 9/11/2023 at 5:28 PM, digbeth said:

The dealers do organize rides and they used to visit the factory, this is not a regular thing though, also being where they are it's a <deleted>ty ride from Bangkok, no matter how short  

Thank you for the info.

I guess the local Triumph dealer in Pattaya may do this?

On 9/14/2023 at 11:08 AM, Treebeard said:

Thank you for the info.

I guess the local Triumph dealer in Pattaya may do this?

I've seen Pattaya Triumph arrange test ride days, Distinguished Gentlemen Charity Rides and support Biker Cafe events.  They seem to very active.

 

They also answered by query about the new 400 (arrives at end of year).

8 hours ago, Kinnock said:

I've seen Pattaya Triumph arrange test ride days, Distinguished Gentlemen Charity Rides and support Biker Cafe events.  They seem to very active.

 

They also answered by query about the new 400 (arrives at end of year).

Thank you.

 

I also like the look of the new 400 bikes ????