Opinion of new Triumph vertical twins?

The new ones are great. I really like the Scrambler, but I prefer their
triples.

Big Whoop wrote:
> On Wed, 30 May 2007 16:58:17 GMT, Sean <no.spam DeleteThis @no.spam> wrote:
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>> tomorrow DeleteThis @erols.com wrote:
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>>> The old bikes are wonderful if you have the room, time, and love to
>>> spare for their character and their beauty. It also helps, if you are
>>> a motorcycle RIDER, to have another motorcycle in the fleet, as you
>>> will spend a LOT of time working on your old Meriden twin for each
>>> hour you spend riding it.
>> Back in another era (the Second Age of Middle Earth)
>> I had a shiny black '69 BSA 650 Thunderbolt. I didn't spend
>> a lot of time working on it -- because I didn't know how.
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>> The bike had thoroughbred British character and feel,
>> but I was too inexperienced to appreciate it.
>> Its character traits included leaking oil and tingling
>> painfully at high revs. Finally after about a year
>> I was glad to get rid of it and rode a succession
>> of Japanese bikes until I got the Harley.
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> I don't get it... the worst vibrator in the late 50's was a
> Harley....I rode the 1959 Sportser and that sucker would pry your
> gripping hand off the bars at 90mph in three.
>> Sean_Q_
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