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Thanks 2112, I'll think about it. I'm just not sure I trust myself -- the Thruxton isn't THAT hot of a bike, and I got myself into plenty of trouble. Really, the Thrux is just a Bonnie with a more aggressive seating posture (that posture, incidentally, makes me ride like an idiot), combined with a 19T sprocket stock (flames from Thrux owners can start...now) (granted the Thrux aluminum rims & better brakes etc. are nice). I grew up on Japanese 4-bangers, so I like to wring a bike's neck, and wringing a Thruxton's neck with the 19T (for me) was faassst. Most of my old Japanese iron would foul plugs if you weren't wringing their necks. But you've got a point about how cheap and easy the sprocket-swap is. I'd just have to go buy the sprocket and that 36mm socket.
Nice Bonnie Black, by the way! Those Ohlins look freakin nice. Galveston County? Is that Texas? If I lived there, or Montana, or someplace else with realistic speed limits I'd be more inclined to swap out the sprocket. But in Oregon, almost all roads except a few interstates are 55 mph, and cops write tickets starting at about 65 mph, and traffic seems to generally flow at about 60. Our state is getting more crowded and there are more and more uninterrupted double-yellow lines on what used to be dotted yellow line roads. It sucks. I will say that the stock Bonnie "look" is so unassuming, or "low ego emissions" as one guy called it, that cops seem less interested in pulling me over than when I had a red sportbike with a Two Brothers can.
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