A bike fan who won an unused 1977 Triumph T160V Trident with a £2 raffle ticket is to sell the bike to fund an operation. Sally Peace won the Trident last autumn in a raffle run by the National Motorcycle Museum at Solihull.
Now the motorcycle is to be sold by H&H classics on 7 April for an estimate of £10,000 to £12,000.
A keen motorbike rider since 1977, Peace, 60, is based in mid-Wales. A health carer, she is struggling with health issues herself and needs an operation which the sale of the Triumph will fund. She says she was overjoyed to have won the Triumph and very sad to be selling it, but her health issues made it a priority.
The bike was bought by museum founder, the late Roy Richards, in the 1980s from a bike dealer and was displayed in the museum up to the 2000s when it was replaced by another similar model.
The museum decided to put the bike into their popular Classic Bike Raffle, and it proved to be one of the most popular bikes ever raffled.