Triumphrat

Clifford · 07-13-2005

Hey RATs,

I've been in denial, but I'm going to have to fess up, I'm a closet cafe racer. I don't have cafe to race to and from, but I live right next to a local twisty known as Lime Creek Rd and I haul-ass up and down this and other stretches at questionable speeds. I'm modding my intake and exhaust and will have a dyno tuning after I think it's as good as I personally can get it. I'm ordering a cafe fairing and some low bars to get my head down. I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to justify to my wife that a cafe fairing is better than a summer screen and that frame sliders are a good thing and I really do need those rearsets, even though I could have gotten them if I had bought a Thruxton.

So, do I need my head fixed, or should I get a membership at a track, or should I just follow my instincts and go like hell?

mhanson · 07-13-2005

You are not alone!

Mi

cafestyle · 07-14-2005

Get them rearsets on, bolt your clip-ons on 6 inches below the triple clamp and go like hell!!! 8-)

buggy · 07-14-2005

It happens to the best of us. Welcome aboard. I rode in to work today. Blasting through 30 miles of twisty back roads before work is the way to go. Can't wait for the ride home.

fuzzdevil · 07-14-2005

I'm saving up my pennies right now for some rear sets - yea i could have bought a Thruxton, but I am having a great time building my Bonnie to the style of racer I like sorta a hybrid.

So I say go for it!! Get down Get low and ride like hell

Clifford · 07-14-2005

Yeah, I drooled over the Thruxton for months. Then, knowing my wife would never ride it with me, and because of that, our marriage would descend into a pit of despair, I turned my attention on the T100, knowing I could turn it into something like the Thruxton, but deceptively still like a Bonneville. I knew my wife would get used to seeing it and over time the changes wouldn't be so noticable. I knew I could put some of the original parts back on when we were going for a ride together and she would think it was the same bike, totally unaware that she was riding a cafe racer!

And then I put my money down in front of the Man. "I would like to take this bike home, please."... Bwaaah-haa-haa!

So that said, does anyone know where I can get a set of frame sliders for this beast? I know someone must make them?!

1409 · 07-14-2005

I guess I'm a closet racer to.

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Moff · 07-14-2005

Hey Clifford,

"So that said, does anyone know where I can get a set of frame sliders for this beast? I know someone must make them?!"

Is this the sort of thing you're looking for?
http://translate.google.com/translat...lr%3D%26sa%3DG

Cheers, Moff

:wink:

joeswamp · 07-14-2005

Clifford--

You sound like a man desperately in need of a track day. I'm going again on the 28th and can't wait, makes the street seem like slow motion.

Frame sliders and rigid rearsets are available for the Thruxton (and might fit the Bonneville):

Clicky Here

04bb--

That's quite an elegant machine. Is that the Omar's fairing?

1409 · 07-14-2005

joeswamp, Yes it's a Omar's fairing.

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