 For all of you longing for a "classic" triumph....
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Stolen from another list..... > Subject: New "Truimph" from Japan > > > > A company in Hiroshima is manufacturing this brand new retro bike: > > > > >> http://www1.odn.ne.jp/emthu-ichiba/newpage6.htm> > > > The Kanji text reads, in part: > > > > "Unreliable obsolete lump of oil leaking brit junk." > > (snip) > > "Reliable, powerful trouble free modern Japanese improvement--so > > beautiful this very engine was chosen by BSA for the all new modernized > > Goldstar." > > (snip) > > "Expensive but worth every penny--sensible Japanese clocks, turn signals > > and mirrors! The frame a nostalgic memory of a once great pre war > > industrial power. Even the internals for the brakes are trouble free > > Japanese!" web page
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I"m not entirely sure I approve of phrases like "Unreliable obsolete lump of oil leaking brit junk" coming out of Japan.. even if it IS accurate concerning the engines of the period. Oh well... It's like having a younger sibling (perhaps a decrepit grandparent'd be more accurate) - noone's allowed to say anything bad about them... noone except me that is!  Matt
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What's this world coming to? First, the bloody prince in his damned hitler costume and now a damned yammerhammer in a Triumph costume? We've either gone mad or crossed into another dimension. Ah, hey you - stupid round eye - you like buy Triumph? Have Mercy!
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Yup, those nips can't do anything good without copying someone. I don't agree with their idea of reliability though. I don't count a vehicle to be reliable untill it has lasted about 3 times longer than when all their junk gets tossed in the dustbin.
By the way, the first of their wonderful toy oaters was a copy of a DeSoto Airflow with a copy of a Chevrolet engine. They wanted to copy the Ford V8, but there wasn't a foundry that could make castings that wide.
Let's hope there's intelligent life somewhere in space 'cause it's buggar all down here. -- Monte Python
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I have read for years about unreliable Triumphs, hate to keep bringing up old news, but I fondly remember the 76 bonnie which always started, and didn't leak a drop of oil. The electronics were squirrely, but I didn't know about the little bell things you are supposed to hang off the frame.
"It's not what I say that's important, it's what you hear" Red Auerbach
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Found a so called triumph kawasaki on a swedish web site,its a 1996 model,strange looking beast,you can see it in the gallery,sorry I can,t put the picture here I really am not computor litterate,on the old site it was so much easier,but I will learn how to use this site eventually
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My '71 Trophy was very reliable. And believe it or not it didn't leak oil and I never had a problem with the Liucas electrics either.
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"Catching a yellow jacket in your shirt at seventy miles per hour can double your vocabulary" Author unknown
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Does this bike my @ss look fast?
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greybeard -
i guess ya gotta look at it this way ...... had the japs kept their "own" ideas everything coming from there would look like the Honda 'dream' ! once they saw americas response to their idea of style copying was the only thought they could come up with.
imagine it in your mind ..... an 1800cc Honda Dream set up to tour !!
quit laughin - it would have been their best shot!
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