2016 Bonneville

[pritch]

Retro Bikes
Buy a proper classic, and some tools.

Nah! I tried that but a wise man told me that you need to be either a bloody good mechanic or have a lot of spare cash. Not being in either category I'll stick to the modern stuff. Gave away my funny spanners. Haven't tried retro yet but the day may come.

[mossy1200]

Looks good but after my experience with a new t100 you wont catch me buying a triumph that has chrome.

[ruaphu]

Looks good but after my experience with a new t100 you wont catch me buying a triumph that has chrome.

Let me guess Mossy, the shiny stuff started peeling like old sun tanned skin eh.

A mates three y/o storm he bought new is doin it. Never been in the rain or power washed. The Trumpy dealer didn't wanna know about it either.

Nice bike, shame about the crappy chrome job


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[AllanB]

Given the English weather you'd think they would have the most robust chrome in motorcycledom.

[rustyrobot]

Given the English weather you'd think they would have the most robust chrome in motorcycledom.

On the other hand, given that they are manufactured in Thailand....

[mossy1200]

Always garaged less than 1 year old. May have seen rain a couple of times. All parts including wheels replaced under warranty. Spokes were starting again when I sold it. Just enough to put me off buying another trumpet.
Spent a bit on extras for it also.

Saying that it was a fun bike to own.
Maybe they have got it sorted now.

[Winston001]

I know! I was gutted when the Thruxton arrived that is was not a hot-rod engine Bonnie.

Ah feel ya bro. In fact I think we exchanged views on this a few years ago.

Anyway, didn't know that and rather surprised at the narrow perspective of Triumph design.

Triumph own the retro market - there is no other "British" competition that I know of. They have been very successful in designing new/old bikes to appeal to a world wide cohort of guys/gals who wanted a Triumph when they were young and poor. Now we can have one.

The same cohort includes sadly deluded individuals like myself for whom the Norton Commando was the ultimate sex on wheels. And we'd sell our mothers to buy one today.

So why for pity's sake hasn't Triumph jumped on that huge marketing gap? I thought the Thruxton would evolve in that direction but Nope. Faarrggg.

Triumph can't clone a Norton but with paint detailing etc it would be trivial to produce a bike which looked like a Commando. Dunstall megaphones. Black with gold pinstripe. Add in a John Playerish fairing as an option. Magic.

And they'd need a solid high performance engine which might mean watercooling but so what - Ducati have done that for 15 years.


Sob....

[Voltaire]

Ah feel ya bro. In fact I think we exchanged views on this a few years ago.

Anyway, didn't know that and rather surprised at the narrow perspective of Triumph design.

Triumph own the retro market - there is no other "British" competition that I know of. They have been very successful in designing new/old bikes to appeal to a world wide cohort of guys/gals who wanted a Triumph when they were young and poor. Now we can have one.

The same cohort includes sadly deluded individuals like myself for whom the Norton Commando was the ultimate sex on wheels. And we'd sell our mothers to buy one today.

So why for pity's sake hasn't Triumph jumped on that huge marketing gap? I thought the Thruxton would evolve in that direction but Nope. Faarrggg.

Triumph can't clone a Norton but with paint detailing etc it would be trivial to produce a bike which looked like a Commando. Dunstall megaphones. Black with gold pinstripe. Add in a John Playerish fairing as an option. Magic.

And they'd need a solid high performance engine which might mean watercooling but so what - Ducati have done that for 15 years.


Sob....

Norton all the way

[pritch]

Did I not hear recently that Psychospot now have an agency for Norton, and if you have a lazy $35,000 or so they will even sell you one?

[Voltaire]

Yeah, 35K sounds about right..bit much for a weekend plaything

[Reckless]

They've found my favorite site
http://www.canyonmotorcycles.com/ click throughout the slide show on the homepage yummy some of those.

My lotto wish list these
http://www.canyonmotorcycles.com/#!c...ag-wheels/c4bd
or these
http://www.canyonmotorcycles.com/#!t...e-series/c1yl9

where I got the Hagon Piggybacks from.

PS nice Bonnie Mossy

[Blackbird]

[QUOTE=Winston001;1130826876]

Triumph can't clone a Norton but with paint detailing etc it would be trivial to produce a bike which looked like a Commando. Dunstall megaphones. Black with gold pinstripe. Add in a John Playerish fairing as an option. Magic.

/QUOTE]

Triumph's original Thruxton (not the current pale imitation) met most of those criteria - 100 mph lap of the TT circuit in 1969, top speed 145 mph. Wasn't black with gold pinstriping though

Took the photo of the original Thruxton replica at a classic meeting about 4 years ago. Looks gorgeous and went like the clappers. Just for you though, I've attached a photo of my mate's Commando 850 race bike. He also has a Commando 750 which he bought when he was 19 and he's 55 now. It's in concours condition.

[Voltaire]

Pauls Commando goes well, lots of goodies on it, I'll need to work at it this weekend

[Blackbird]

Pauls Commando goes well, lots of goodies on it, I'll need to work at it this weekend

Paul and Julie used to live just down the road from us in Coro but now lives at the top end of town. Ask him about when he owned a Dodge Viper

[fridayflash]

its a shame triumph havent made a new t160 styled trident..not using there regular triple tho, theyd have to engineer something that looks classic
out of their twin engine platfrom i guess