Having just retired from serving with the Army for the majority of his working life, Thompson Graville has to decide what to do with his spare time. Although he has never owned a road bike before, let alone a classic British motorcycle, he decides that he wants to get himself a 1975 Triumph Trident T160V. In a departure from his stories of an old motorcycle mechanic, Peter J. Uren leaves the workshop behind to write about the experiences and pitfalls of owning and riding a classic motorcycle.