New and exciting models were springing up everywhere – the DOHC Honda CB450 and the then-mind boggling CB750 four, big capacity two strokes from Suzuki and Kawasaki (both rumoured to be working flat out on four stroke multis), and even commendable efforts from some of the remaining European manufacturers. This would suggest that the ultimate form of surrender by the formerly omnipotent British industry would have been by marriage to the aggressor! It seemed that as the ‘seventies dawned Triumph’s US distributors were increasingly perturbed at just how long they could go on flogging the old parallel twin – a design already over 30 years old. Legend has it that the machine that became the Yamaha XS1 was nearly a Triumph. Aimed at the traditional British buyer, the XS-1 was a polyglot machine that remained in production for 13 years.
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