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07-14-2012, 11:37 AM
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Purveyor of Awesome
Joined: Oct 2009
Location: Southern Pines, North Carolina, USA
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Why you should NOT buy a Triumph motorcycle!
Despite the addition of a Ural hack, my Bonneville just can't keep up with my wife's Ural on washed out dirt roads in the Virginia mountains!
No matter what I do, I can't get the 2WD to engage! Thus far, the manufacturer has been no help in fixing this. After 3" of rain last night, my Triumph was still wet this morning, and the pegs were slippery. I expect more from a new motorcycle! I have to work to keep it slow on the Blue Ridge Parkway. This darn Triumph just wants to fly through the curves at ungodly speeds! The list goes on. This Triumph is crap, and anybody who has ever bought a Triumph is an idiot! Bottom line, just buy a Big Wheels, those things never break, and they give the most bang for the buck in the three wheel community. Sent from my Droid 2 Global using Typotalk 2
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07-14-2012, 12:54 PM
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Remastered Classic
Joined: Dec 2009
Location: San Antonio
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If you think you can't break a Big Wheel, I'd like to introduce you to my older brother who decided it would be cool to jump one off a homemade ramp after a running start from the top of the hill at the end of our street.... Of course, that was back in about '70, before helmets and pads and common sense...lol! It's a wonder we're still alive. Then again, he never has been quite right since then...
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07-14-2012, 12:54 PM
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Gnarly Adventurer
Joined: Jun 2011
Location: Sunny Colorado
Oddometer: 490
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Awesome, another why you should or shouldn't buy a bike thread.
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07-14-2012, 01:25 PM
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Purveyor of Awesome
Joined: Oct 2009
Location: Southern Pines, North Carolina, USA
Oddometer: 3,333
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Dammit, all this crap with the Triumph and now I get hit in the face with a bug while riding. This is clearly due to poor quality control on the part of Triumph's windshield manufacturing plant!
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07-14-2012, 02:13 PM
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Adventurer
Joined: Jul 2011
Location: Bridgton, Maine
Oddometer: 82
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07-14-2012, 03:10 PM
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Gnarly Adventurer
Joined: Aug 2008
Location: Jacksonville, Flatistan
Oddometer: 132
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I know who's fault this is.....
Don’t ever ride a motorcycle.
Because your wife ends up riding, then you have to buy her a Ural. When you buy a Ural, you decide you like it and steal it from your wife. When you steal a Ural from your wife, she gets a little upset and tells you to buy your own. When you buy your own, it turns out to be a Triumph with a bad windshield that slings bugs on you. See, it’s still Ural’s fault.
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07-14-2012, 03:44 PM
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Gnarly Adventurer
Joined: Jan 2009
Location: Pambula, NSW
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Aussie Ural Owners rosco.id.au Ural - speed limits aren't a restriction, they are an achievement! |
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07-14-2012, 08:47 PM
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Purveyor of Awesome
Joined: Oct 2009
Location: Southern Pines, North Carolina, USA
Oddometer: 3,333
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Sent from my Droid 2 Global using Typotalk 2
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07-15-2012, 05:19 AM
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commie bike rider
Joined: Aug 2006
Location: Middle Ga
Oddometer: 634
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Pictures....it didn't happen
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07-16-2012, 09:06 AM
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Studly Adventurer
Joined: Sep 2008
Oddometer: 609
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If you really want 2wd bring the bike back to the shop and we can add it.
Jay G DMC sidecars 866-638-1793 www.dmcsidecars.com |
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07-16-2012, 09:19 AM
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Remastered Classic
Joined: Dec 2009
Location: San Antonio
Oddometer: 4,536
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There. Their. They're not the same. (By reading this, you have briefly given me control of your thoughts) When life gives you melons, you might be dyslexic. |
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07-16-2012, 09:41 AM
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Twas ever thus!
Joined: Apr 2009
Location: Saint Augustine, Florida
Oddometer: 1,695
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$500 cash for your Triumph....I'll pick it up......
 ps. you can keep the Ural sidecar.....If you want to sell the unit, you need to give me the $500 in cash......
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07-16-2012, 04:13 PM
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Purveyor of Awesome
Joined: Oct 2009
Location: Southern Pines, North Carolina, USA
Oddometer: 3,333
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Jay, I damn near needed it today. I got in a rough spot grabbing the NC Tag, bottomed it out quite a few times. I definitely need a skid plate. The bonnie is low!
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07-16-2012, 04:18 PM
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Adventure Wuss
Joined: May 2007
Location: Cleveland
Oddometer: 415
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Them Triumphs are sucky.
All cept the Steve McQueen bike. I swear its not the Steve McQueen fetish I have. The seat and paint and that exhaust are the bomb. But if I took it to southeast asia and tried to jump a barbed wire fence, I bet it would break.
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