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    S`funny, I'm thinking of going the other way from a 1050, but a Tiger, to a STR. Haven't ridden one yet, but getting weary of big heavy bikes and change for changes sake seems appealing.
    Don't you look at my accountant.
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    If you've wanted one for years... and a chance this solid isn't going to come up again... would you be kicking yourself if you didn't??

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    Quote Originally Posted by OddDuck View Post
    If you've wanted one for years... and a chance this solid isn't going to come up again... would you be kicking yourself if you didn't??
    The guy down the street has a red 1050 oh the sound my wife must think am mad as a march hair.

    I am like, oh oh he started his bike sounds great doesint it, i have got my 5 year son on bike watch lol

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    Lordy you still don't proof read your posts. Try make sense of above.
    Don't you look at my accountant.
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    Quote Originally Posted by F5 Dave View Post
    S`funny, I'm thinking of going the other way from a 1050, but a Tiger, to a STR. Haven't ridden one yet, but getting weary of big heavy bikes and change for changes sake seems appealing.
    I can identify with this. Went from a Blackbird to a Street Triple and never regretted it. Currently riding a GSX-S 1000 but in all honesty, it doesn't offer me anything extra over the Street Triple,and I can see myself returning to a STR when Triumph have sorted out whether they are going to offer both the 675, 800 or both of them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase View Post
    GAH.
    Best advice I can give anyone is...if you want it, buy it. Works for me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crasherfromwayback View Post
    Best advice I can give anyone is...if you want it, buy it. Works for me.
    Yes i have 100 % agree and i found the slighty not sure thing is a good thing , it means your on to something your

    really love

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    In most things bike related, ask yourself -

    If I buy it and regret it, how much will I regret it?
    If I don't buy it and regret it, how much will I regret it?

    I frequently find it is better to regret something you've done, rather than something you wish you'd done.

    Evaluate the above, make your choice, and live happy in the knowledge that whatever the outcome, you made the best decision at the time.
    "It's hard to keep an open mind, when so many people are trying to put things in it"

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    Quote Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase View Post

    I was going to buy a Speed Triple when I bought my Street. But I test rode it and thought that my lack of discipline would mean my licence would last quarter of an hour.
    My only question is: Have you gained the discipline so yiour licence lasts more than a quarter of an hour ???

    (Personally, I might make half an hour ... but then I blew off a Speed Triple from Turangi up the Desert Road and left him in my dust - I suspect NO BALLS on the part of the Speed Ttriple rider )
    "So if you meet me, have some sympathy, have some courtesy, have some taste ..."

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    An inanimate object is owned. End of. If a home I had bought was listed as heritage after I bought it, think I'd burn it down.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hitcher View Post
    If you can tolerate the excessive shrill cam whine of a Hinckley triple that no performance muffler can overpower, then go ahead and buy one.
    Funny, I've never even noticed that. Only had the bike four years though.

    Then again, at 100kph the loudest sound is usually the tinnitus.
    There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one. - Joey Dunlop

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    Tiger 1050 is so quiet you'd think I would have noticed such a thing. Only six years so. . .
    Don't you look at my accountant.
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    Best option is buy it and keep both for a few months, then sell the one you like least.

    Quote Originally Posted by Hitcher View Post
    If you can tolerate the excessive shrill cam whine of a Hinckley triple that no performance muffler can overpower, then go ahead and buy one.
    All high class bitches whine. And I believe it's the straight cut balance shaft gear.

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    So you gonna get it or what? What's the missing farkle?
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    I'd go with the above opinion that it's better to do something and regret it, rather than not do something and forever regret not doing it.

    At least if you give it a go you know the answer, otherwise you'll be forever wondering.....
    Riding cheap crappy old bikes badly since 1987

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