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Originally Posted by MarkBartels
Just yesterday my daughter and I were discussing our two motorcycles (Triumph T-Bird & Honda VFR) and she asked me which one I liked best. The best answer I could give her is that I like each one equally for different reasons.
I am very happy with the T-Bird's power.
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I'm probably going to get a T-Bird if I can buy a near perfect, stock machine for 4Gs, no more than $4500 absolute tops. I'm after the whole Thunderbird triple 'package', which I'll admit is mostly visual and emotional rather than based on raw performance, as long as the power is useful in the 'real world' of traffic and touring I'll be ok with it. Hopefully, later on, I can pick up another monster sportbike for those days when just nothing else will quite 'do' (I miss the Hayabusa), and it can share the garage with the beautiful Thunderbird...for those other days when nothing else other than it will do, in turn.
The only thing that is keeping me off of the T-Bird Sport is that I so dislike the appearance of exposed, blacked-out engines that it's a 'deal-killer' for me in this case. I'm a 'two-tone paint and chrome guy' when it comes to the British retro bikes, probably tracing back to my older brother's blue and grey 1965 Bonneville as my nostalgic influence in the matter.
