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Heeeeeez Baaaaack!
For a guy who is self (under) employed like Mecchanica I sure seem to be busy. Escorted elderly mom and handicapped sister to beautiful Washington State, arriving Seatac just in time for the wind and rainstorm of the century. A-clowns at Budget didn't have my SUV (reserved weeks earlier) and as I refused to accept a Kia-can replacement I had to wait over two hours, destroying my plans to be out of Seattle/Tacoma before rush hour and setting us out at the heights of both rush hour and the meteorological unpleasantness. What should have been a one hour drive morphed into three hours of bumper to bumper, 40-60 mph wind, torrential rain hell. Two hours after we got to our hotel, the power went out and wasn't restored for two days.
Seriously, it wasn't a bad trip over all and seeing family I don't often get to see made it all worthwhile. I won't bother with details, but visiting family (once we got back from Washington), holiday errands, and numerous other chores (for example, I gave up an apt I was keeping in Indy, and had to move a bunch of stuff up here, which now must be sorted) have kept me too busy!
I did find time to plow through Bacon's Triumph restoration book. Really good stuff, but truthfully, I had expected more organization, charts, etc. which I think would be very useful. I stumbled across a book called Triumph Bonneville Super Profile while browsing through the local library, (1985, John Nelson, author). It is a thin, large format book about 60 pages, with a history of the Bonnie and a bunch of great old period photos. It also has the very chart I though would have most helped the Bacon book, displaying the various changes to the annual models chronologically. I'm gonna try to scan it and can it.
I want to thank everyone who has contributed to this thread. I'll say it again, the depth and breadth of the knowledge some of the members have is truly impressive. The helpfulness, the good nature and the good humor displayed takes me back to a time when bikers were a much smaller and more fraternal bunch who never failed to salute each other on the road. Those days are gone; waving to every person you see on a bike (I can't bring myself to call them all bikers) now would cause a repetitive motion injury. With the much greater numbers have come some folks who just don't appreciate bikes and riding for the same reasons I do.
Sometime soon I am going to re-read the stuff in this thread and try to do a little summary. I am sure it will spawn more questions. I have a few stored up already from all that reading by flashlight on vacation.
Speedmaster, I don't get over to the Demotte area very often, but I do use the DNR rifle range over at J-P occasionally. We'll have to get together for a beer.
Ah, its great to be back!
For a guy who is self (under) employed like Mecchanica I sure seem to be busy. Escorted elderly mom and handicapped sister to beautiful Washington State, arriving Seatac just in time for the wind and rainstorm of the century. A-clowns at Budget didn't have my SUV (reserved weeks earlier) and as I refused to accept a Kia-can replacement I had to wait over two hours, destroying my plans to be out of Seattle/Tacoma before rush hour and setting us out at the heights of both rush hour and the meteorological unpleasantness. What should have been a one hour drive morphed into three hours of bumper to bumper, 40-60 mph wind, torrential rain hell. Two hours after we got to our hotel, the power went out and wasn't restored for two days.
Seriously, it wasn't a bad trip over all and seeing family I don't often get to see made it all worthwhile. I won't bother with details, but visiting family (once we got back from Washington), holiday errands, and numerous other chores (for example, I gave up an apt I was keeping in Indy, and had to move a bunch of stuff up here, which now must be sorted) have kept me too busy!
I did find time to plow through Bacon's Triumph restoration book. Really good stuff, but truthfully, I had expected more organization, charts, etc. which I think would be very useful. I stumbled across a book called Triumph Bonneville Super Profile while browsing through the local library, (1985, John Nelson, author). It is a thin, large format book about 60 pages, with a history of the Bonnie and a bunch of great old period photos. It also has the very chart I though would have most helped the Bacon book, displaying the various changes to the annual models chronologically. I'm gonna try to scan it and can it.
I want to thank everyone who has contributed to this thread. I'll say it again, the depth and breadth of the knowledge some of the members have is truly impressive. The helpfulness, the good nature and the good humor displayed takes me back to a time when bikers were a much smaller and more fraternal bunch who never failed to salute each other on the road. Those days are gone; waving to every person you see on a bike (I can't bring myself to call them all bikers) now would cause a repetitive motion injury. With the much greater numbers have come some folks who just don't appreciate bikes and riding for the same reasons I do.
Sometime soon I am going to re-read the stuff in this thread and try to do a little summary. I am sure it will spawn more questions. I have a few stored up already from all that reading by flashlight on vacation.
Speedmaster, I don't get over to the Demotte area very often, but I do use the DNR rifle range over at J-P occasionally. We'll have to get together for a beer.
Ah, its great to be back!
