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I've never really been into bucket-seat cruisers or sports bikes, so about three years ago, I worked pretty hard towards buying a ~1970s Honda CB 350-440 off of Ebay since I like that classic, straight-seat look... It never really worked out because there's apparently a 500 mile wasteland around my house for old, used bikes. Now, I have a real job, have some money, and decided to look for a new Triumph since they look a lot like the old Hondas but don't have the maintenance... About 5 weeks ago (after drilling down into every nearby area of Craigslist and searching), I bought this:   An '06 Triumph Scrambler (the last and only year they had silver engine blocks). It's not gonna win any races, but man do I smile every time I see it.  I saw that Ropekid has a new Bonneville too, but apparently you don't see many Triumphs around these parts...
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mantaworks posted:You should've bought a Moto Guzzi V7 Classic instead. Alright, fine... I guess I'll admit that Moto Guzzis are pretty great looking bikes too.
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I just spent all of Saturday and Sunday tearing up trails on this: (edit. and by trails, I mean my parents own 50 acres, not public)   A 1976 Honda XL100 that my dad used to ride around when it still worked... (probably why I wanted to buy a bigger CB )He drilled out the jetting a while ago and it hasn't run since. Finally, after waiting a month and a half for the wrong carburetor and then (an original?!) carburetor repair kit to make their way here from Thailand, we rebuilt the carburetor, bought a new spark plug, and now it runs like a top... It really feels almost brand new. Now the only problems left to fix are non-blinking turn lights, a hole in the muffler and the fact that it hates to downshift...  There's nothing like downshifting to turn hard up a hill and finding out that you're still in fourth gear.Other than that, it's a ton of fun to climb through gulleys, peg it through clearings, and thread through narrow trees like on a mountain bike. ...it's exciting too to know that I'm one tree away from being mangled. I wish I had a helmet cam so I could post videos... it's pretty great.
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Jul 21, 2008 22:23
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