Triumphrat

PaleForce

Oh wait, there it is... yep, I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.


I know it's been like a year and a half since these mistakes were made, and since I haven't seen one of these crazy things in public... I'm wondering if dealers have been pulling them off the showroom floor 'cause they're bad for business.


I was thinking, what would be a great idea... anyone remember ET the video game? It came out in '82 by Atari as possibly the largest commercial failure in video game history. Within a year, Atari took several million copies of this game, drove them out to New Mexico, buried them in a landfill, then covered them with a layer of concrete, so they'll never be seen again.

...True story.

But yeah, I say someone rounds up the last of these aesthetic atrocities... and heads for New Mexico.

Dimitri

I don't think mass production was the goal when these bikes were designed. Just a matter of taste i guess. I wouldn't buy one, but they are unique and when i ever should see one passing by, it's a triumph for me and my heart will beat a little faster

IMO, they are not ugly at all, just not my style :wink:

Thruxton

No wonder they can't sell it, they're asking $10,999

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Mancha

I think as many of these ended up at Paul Smith boutiques as at Triumph dealerships. I'd guess they're a more succesful sales inducer at the boutique than the showroom floor. In fact, I wonder if the dealerships even INTEND to sell them. Someday they'll become valuable as a early 2000's "oddity".

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sweatmachine

I offered my dealer 7k for the one they had, provided they'd throw in a few cans of krylon flat black with it.

I'm still waiting for him to return that call...

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tinez35

Selling 'em is easy...just feature it in a movie ridden by the leading man. Maybe Austin Powers... Hollywood loves Triumph.

technogrunt

I have something like that, it's in my computer it attaches my drives to one another.

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webonnielad

It reminds me of when I was a kid with no money and had to nail my own bikes together, with bits and pieces from the junkyard.
That was before I could even afford spray paint.
My junkyard, box of parts bikes looked much more coherent than any Paul Smith.

It looks like it's been hit by a cage and crash landed in a paint factory.

Jon (UK)

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