2002 Triumph Bonneville

Routine

Owners filed 7 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the wheels. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails

Component	Reports		Crashes	Fires	Injuries
Wheels	6		0	0	0
Wheels › Rim	1		0	0	0

What owners reported

Newest filings

Wheels

Filed Jul 14, 200823,000 milesCA

WHILE RIDING MOTORCYCLE ON HIGHWAY, LET REAR OUTER SPOKE ON REAR TIRE BREAKS SUDDENLY AND CATASTROPHICALLY ONCE AT 6200 MILE, SECOND AT 23,000 MILES ON THE ODOMETER. FIRST BROKEN SPOKE DAMAGES BRAKE FLUID HOSE AND REAR WHEEL RIM. SECOND BROKEN SPOKE CAUSES IMMEDIATE FLAT TIRE SENDING BIKE ALMOST OUT OF CONTROL AT 60+ MPH. I FEEL ANGRY AND FORTUNATE TO REMAIN UNSCATHED. I HAVE NO CONFIDENCE IN THE EXISTING SPOKES. FIRST BROKEN SPOKE REPAIRED UNDER WARRANTY. 2ND. SPOKE BREAK OUT OF WARRANTY PERIOD, NOTHING DONE. MANUFACTURER SHOWS NO CONCERN, BUT HAS FINALLY REDESIGNED THE REAR HUB OF NEW MODELS, PROBABLY IN RESPONSE TO THOUSANDS OF COMPLAINTS. SHOULD BE A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT ME THINKS... *TR

Wheels

Filed Jul 14, 200815,000 milesCA

BROKEN SPOKE/ NIPPLE. I HAD NOTICED MY REAR TIRE FLAT ON MY MOTORCYCLE IN THE GARAGE, WHEN I LOOKED TO SEE HOW IT BECAME FLAT I FOUND A BROKEN SPOKE/NIPPLE. A PIECE OF THE SPOKE NIPPLE HAD PUNCTURED THE INNER TUBE AND CAUSED THE FLAT. WHEN THE LOCAL MOTORCYCLE REPAIR SHOP FIXED THE PROBLEM, THEY ACTUALLY FOUND ANOTHER BROKEN SPOKE AND REPLACED IT WHEN THEY FOUND IT. I KNOW OF MANY OTHER PEOPLE HAVING THESE SAME ISSUES AND SEVERAL FRIENDS WITH THE SAME MOTORCYCLE TO HAVE HAD THE EXACT SAME PROBLEM. NOBODY HAS GOTTEN HURT YET, BUT I BELIEVE THAT DAY IS COMING. *TR

Wheels

Filed Aug 22, 20077,600 milesWI

BROKEN SPOKE ON REAR WHEEL CAUSING FLAT TIRE AT HIGHWAY SPEEDS. *TR

Wheels

Filed May 3, 200612,000 milesCA

BROKEN LEFT REAR OUTER SPOKES ON REAR WHEEL. *JB

Wheels

Filed Aug 11, 200512,000 milesCA

I HAVE HAD 3 SPOKES BRAKE ON MY 2002 TRIUMPH BONNEVILLE MOTORCYCLE. ALL THREE WERE ON THE REAR WHEEL, LEFT OUTER SIDE. THE MOTORCYCLE HAS BEEN ALWAYS BEEN RIDDEN MODESTLY FOR IT'S 6,000 MILES. THE SPOKES HAVE BEEN REPLACED PROFESSIONALLY. THE BROKEN SPOKES ARE AVAILABLE. *JB *AK

Wheels › Rim

Filed Jul 8, 200516,585 milesOH

RIDING AT HIGHWAY SPEEDS HAD A REAR SPOKE BREAK. THIS CAUSED A FLAT TIRE AND A BUSTED REAR BRAKE LINE. I ORDERED A SPOKE FROM TRIUMPH AND HAD MY LOCAL BMW DEALER REPLACE IT. *AK

Wheels

Filed Jun 11, 200510,000 milesCA

2002 TRIUMPH BONNEVILLE BREAKING LEFT REAR OUTER SPOKES AND FLATTENING REAR TIRE AT SPEED, I HAVE DOCUMENTED 24 MOTORCYCLES, 36 SPOKES ALL THE SAME PART NUMBER, SOMEWILL IS GOING TO GET HURT. *AK

7 of 7 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2002

Year	Complaints	Recalls	Assessment
2014	1	1	Routine
2008	2	0	Routine
2006	3	0	Routine
2005	3	0	Routine
2004	1	1	Routine
2003	4	0	Routine
2002 — this page	7	0	Routine
2001	7	0	Routine
2000	1	0	Routine

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Reading this record

No unusual pattern of severe incidents in the complaint record.

Complaint counts track how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road as much as they track quality. A common model from 2013 has had a decade to accumulate reports; a rare one from last year has not. The signal worth weighing is in the severity columns, in whether the same component keeps appearing, and in whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.

Most recent recall on file: none. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.