Featured What you been doing with your TRIUMPH today??

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  1. Sceptic Al

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    Looks a tidy job. I seem to remember when I were nowt but a lad the 'bike bobbies' used to ride Triumphs with a very similar style fairing.:)
     
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    We all learn, sometimes the hard way. Nuff said!!!!
    Looks like you did a tidy job though and the good thing is you're up and about so not all bad. Hope you recover quickly and back in the saddle even quicker.
     
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    fairings have certainly come a long way since... each to there own but i think that old fashioned fairing looks terrible:eek::eek::eek:
     
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    So, being a Monday, my first train was cancelled this morning so had to get the tiger out of bed and take her into london. Quite a nice ride at 5:45 in the morning not looking forward to the ride home in the rush hour£1 to park :eek: is it really worth charging? So my first commute!!
     
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    Indeed they did! 23da4b7f22028ddc640509ae20873ca3.jpg
     
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    Lot of work and it's well done but I agree - it looks proper naff on a Bonnie!
     
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    There was an oldish bloke where I worked who back in the late 70's used a real wreck of an LE as his commuter bike. He bought it off the local bobbies when they scrapped them. He rode the bike well into the late 80's/early 90's, never had it serviced, always passed the MOT, (well he said it did). It eventually ended up being used on the beach to collect trash.
     
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    Here's a couple of faired Speed Twins seen at Goole Bike show the other week, plus another Velocette LE

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    It certainly brightened up what is usually a somewhat dowdy piece of nostalgia!:eek::):cool:
     
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    Not today, late post from Saturday's ride.
    Instow. Hatherleigh. Crediton. Tiverton. Dulverton. Simonsbath. Barbrook. Barnstaple. Instow.
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    thebiglad Old fart, still riding !

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    Hi Jezza, that is a really beautiful picture. Very well done.
     
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    Thought i would pop out for a wee run today :)..me just leaving the house ;)

    27th april 002_edited-1.jpg
    Glad the grass wasn't needing cut!

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    Ha Ha Nice one Dougie, :) Cleaning the windows there must have been the same challenge as painting the Forth bridge was at one time :eek: !!!
    Beautiful setting though and a great picture :cool: !!
     
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    thebiglad Old fart, still riding !

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    Hi Dougie, that's a lovely picture of our place. I wish someone had told me that you called?
     
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    Huh!!

    Not a patch on Chateau Goolie!:p:p:D:D
     
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    anyone recognize it? clue.. not that far from where i live..another clue..there's a royal connection
     
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    thebiglad Old fart, still riding !

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    Well obviously I know - Balmoral. But we usually just call it home.
     
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    Nice photos Dougie..... as someone who sells double glazing i'm drooling at the commission i'd make with that lot :rolleyes::D
     
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    Set off sharp this morning for my 500 mile service, computer says 4 miles til empty then promptly ran out of petrol :mad:

    Typical !!!..... all those years riding bikes without computers and I get this Street Twin with it's fancy 'countdown to empty' display and I run out..... Tw*t !!!

    No drama's with the service but they still haven't fitted my heated grips (still not in yet).. Total cost £59.52 for oil & filter, no labour charge.
     
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    Close but no cigar..it's Glamis Castle, childhood home of the Queen mother, Princess Margaret was born there
     
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