* On Jul 05 06:59 Keith Richardson wrote to David Drummond

 KR>> i lusted after one all my teen years (it was just lower in
 KR>> desirability to a t bucket v8 hot rod)  (-8

 DD>> hoon

 KR> elderly ex-hoon

 DD>> The Triumph motorcycle mob have been raised from the dead . 

 DD>> I have been for a test ride on one of the 900 triples.  The 
 DD>> motor is very British (as are the colour choices), but the 
 DD>> frame etc seems very Japanese. The bike pulled/handled fine 
 DD>> (though I don't think it had the same low end torque as my 
 DD>> 750cc triple BMW - may have just been the chain snatch 
 DD>> though).

 KR> if the motor is very british, and the frame very japanese, does 
 KR> that mean that it is too unreliable to ride more than 50 
 KR> miles, and has road holding that makes cornering an adventure 
 KR> at speeds over walking pace?

I should have said "the motor LOOKS british".  It runs well and
doesn't seem to piss oil everywhere :-)

Have you ridden a modern Japanese bike?  The handling has improved a great
deal in the last 25 years :-)


David
 

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