Triumphrat

imafunkyman · 12-01-2007, 06:55 PM

Made a huge mistake today. I went to the Ducati dealership in Salt Lake today. I fell in love with the sport classic bikes and even contemplated trading in the Bonnie for one. Help talk me down guys!

road dog · 12-01-2007, 07:04 PM

Sorry I can't help you Bro... I've been having a few of those dirty thoughts myself. I'm leaning more toward the new retro Moto Guzzi however. I'm hoping to hold out until I can afford to keep my Bonnie and buy a Guzzi too... like that's ever gonna happen.

imafunkyman · 12-01-2007, 08:03 PM

Well thank you very much dog!!!!! You put that new V7 Classic into my head! You're not helping me! lol I like that new Goose too. I'm anxious to see one in person. I have (well, my wife actually) decided that I will not be trading in my Bonnie. It's my dream bike and I finally have it, so there is no way I'll let her go. I'll just have to save my pennies up for another bike.

rmak · 12-01-2007, 08:15 PM

funky man,
One of my buddies has a Ducati. Just ask him....no, you really don't have to ask him...all the time it's "My Ducati this" and "My Ducati that". Do you really want to become that kind of a person?! Do you really want to have to buy the two-toned sueded leather Ducati jacket with matching gloves?

And you can forget doing anything on your bike yourself. According to my friend, the dealer frowns on anyone actually touching or even being in the general vicinity of the engine in any way. The expectation is that you schedule $600.00 service visits every other month or so, so they can tweak and adjust all of the mysterious foreign-looking tubes and components that surround the powerplant.

Do you want to take your beloved Triumph, which is steeped in a 105 years of (almost) continous lineage and tradition, who's metal was tested from the Isle of Man to the Flats of Bonneville, with its beautiful archetypical styling and rock-steady vertical twin heart and just hand it over to that bunch of slick, elitist, "look at me, I'm a road racer" bunch of Ducati freaks? I shutter to think what they would do to it.

How's that?

road dog · 12-01-2007, 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by imafunkyman

Well thank you very much dog!!!!! You put that new V7 Classic into my head! You're not helping me! lol I like that new Goose too. I'm anxious to see one in person. I have (well, my wife actually) decided that I will not be trading in my Bonnie. It's my dream bike and I finally have it, so there is no way I'll let her go. I'll just have to save my pennies up for another bike.

LOL... I didn't mean to make matters worse funkyman. We're in the same boat it seems. I promised Momma I'd keep the Bonnie, as it's a dream of mine as well. I didn't however specifically promise her that I wouldn't get an ADDITIONAL bike some day.

ATGATT · 12-01-2007, 09:36 PM

While you're on the subject...

As I was waiting for the dealer to change out my ignition today on my bonnie, I sat on many bikes in their showroom.

First let me say that the bonnie has the feeling of where everything is, as about as close to perfect as it comes for me.

When I sat on the new BMW 800 ST, I almost yelled, "Stop the ignition work because I'm buying this one."

To cure this, they should have a mandatory contract when you buy a motorcycle that says, "With this new bike a truly wed until death or 50,000 miles do us part."

ohiorider · 12-01-2007, 09:54 PM

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Originally Posted by ATGATT

While you're on the subject...
To cure this, they should have a mandatory contract when you buy a motorcycle that says, "With this new bike a truly wed until death or 50,000 miles do us part."

Boy, if that was the case, there'd be a lot of stolen bikes ".... don't know officer, I had it locked up and it just disappeared ...".

Here's how I view my Triumph. It is the most fun bike I've ridden for the past 30 years. The Kaw W650 was probably as much fun, but had 52K miles, and needed a home where she wouldn't get ridden 12k a year. The T100 will be in the garage long after some future purchases have come and gone. She won't get traded, but may get set aside as a long distance tourer, or even as my Saturday ride most of the time, but she'll still be in the garage. The Triumph is sweet enough that I could not get rid of the bike, even if I decided I wanted a Guzzi or some other larger machine.

Bob

ATGATT · 12-01-2007, 10:12 PM

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Originally Posted by ohiorider

Boy, if that was the case, there'd be a lot of stolen bikes ".... don't know officer, I had it locked up and it just disappeared ...".

Here's how I view my Triumph. It is the most fun bike I've ridden for the past 30 years. The Kaw W650 was probably as much fun, but had 52K miles, and needed a home where she wouldn't get ridden 12k a year. The T100 will be in the garage long after some future purchases have come and gone. She won't get traded, but may get set aside as a long distance tourer, or even as my Saturday ride most of the time, but she'll still be in the garage. The Triumph is sweet enough that I could not get rid of the bike, even if I decided I wanted a Guzzi or some other larger machine.

Bob

How strange you say this because at the dealer today as I was about to mount up on my bonnie, two guys who rode over 500 miles to that dealer just because the dealer had a brand jacket they wanted to see, started talking to me. One road a BMW GS Adventurer and the other a DL1000.

They said they both had the newer bonnies with over 25,000 miles. They said if they could only have one bike, it would be the bonnie. They said they'll never get rid of them.

If I had my druthers, I'd like to keep the bonnie but have a "mistress bike" too.

dave1068 · 12-01-2007, 11:47 PM

I see many of us Bonne owners think alike. I also like the ducati gt1000 but also the guzzi v7 as its bonne-like but w/ the no-maint. shaft drive--now the bad news, i called a few dealers last week and none of them even heard of that model.

I said I saw it on the internet for a european bike show. The bike might not even get to the US until 2009.

Too bad theres no bonne w/ a shaft drive...

Dave-

cobra935o · 12-02-2007, 12:20 AM

That no one wants to sell their Bonnie, cause if they ever do, they will find no one wants to take it off their hands, and if by that slight chance someone is interested they want to steal it from you. I might as well just leave mine out by the curb with the keys in it and collect the insurance money when someone does finally come steal it from me.

I would trade the Bonnie off now, and get the Ducati, while there is at least a shred of value left in the bike (even the dealers want to steal them back from you, after they highway robbed you when you took it off their lot)!!

Nathan