Triumphrat

dogtired · 10-13-2009, 04:31 AM

I have stumbled upon this page, I don't know if anyone has linked it before or knows of it, but it is quite funny. It is one mans observations of life based on years of experience with motorbikes, it starts with: -

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1, If you are a kid, and buy a beautiful aluminum transmission from an unmarked box at an auction, then install it on a homemade go-kart, you might learn that there are two speeds, high, and low. However low goes forward a few feet, then reverses and goes back a few feet, to forward again, and so on.

Then progresses through his life, through High School/College, then his navy days... through to the present.

I recommend you have a read, one of my favorites is: -

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If you take the mufflers off of a Royal Enfield 750 Interceptor, then take a few spins around the block to listen to that beautiful music, then let your roommate take a spin, it allows the police to arrive just as he takes his ride (sorry Ron!).

It is here.

saphena · 10-13-2009, 05:03 AM

#43
As you get older, you find that the best vintage British bike that you can buy is made in Japan and is called the Honda GB500. A little button eliminates the need for kicking, but everything else British is still there except the leaks and breakdowns.

MrsNickwiz · 10-13-2009, 05:24 AM

Hee hee

#18 happened to a mate of mine, bee went down his jacket.
#47 happened to me, always check the bike over now after having work done.
#50 MrNickwiz does this.
# 54 is definatley true!

daveforty · 10-13-2009, 07:16 AM

#51 sounds familiar...

McQueen · 10-13-2009, 03:20 PM

My fav...

#19 - A ’69 Norton Atlas will run thirty five thousand miles with minimal problems if you wire-tie the exhaust nuts to the head and are prepared to have the speedometer and tach rebuilt as they shake themselves to pieces every four or five thousand miles. Fortunately one of them is usually working as the other is being rebuilt. Why is it that you don’t notice the vibration on a bike like this when you are in your twenties?

My '64 Norton has shaken everything loose...twice.

And I call bullsh1t on #43. Of the bikes I've owned, the only ones that ever left me stranded were, in fact, Japanese.

Catenaccio · 10-14-2009, 11:49 PM

Wonderful read! I should be so lucky, wise, experienced, whatever...

Skull Crusher · 10-15-2009, 12:08 AM

Always and I mean always remember to put your feet down when you stop!

And no you don't get to ask!

Cheers

Jeff