Sounds like you had the good ones the factory turned out.  My experience of 60's / early 70's Triumphs / BSAs etc is that they were for the most part unreliable and fragile - a bit like recent decades Land Rovers!
No point in giving chapter and verse on every fault that had one or other Triumph grinding to a halt in the corner of some foreign field but a trip to Greece in 1973 went through two Triumphs (one new, one 1yr old) vs zero faults on the accompanying Yamaha. That was about par for the course back then.
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