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I just watched this movie last night. You have to dedicate an entire night to it, because of its length, but it really is an interesting literary movie once you get into it.
Anyway, "Benjamin's" vehicles of choice are motorcycles, and he primarily rides a Triumph Bonneville in those scenes which show him on a bike. There is one scene later in the movie with him and an Enfield, but he's trying to fix it instead of riding it, so that part if pretty accurate.
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He is on a Bonnie? The pic on the cover looks like the shell blue of a T-110 and the badge of an early to mid 50's. (looks like my 54 T-110 from the cover shot but can't see enough of it to tell for sure.)
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Looked like an old Bonnie to me, but I sometimes have a problem with knowing poop from Shinola.
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Whoa there JB, Who's this Brad Pitt guy? I know some Pitt's over in Dixon, MT, population 216. But "Brad" doesn't ring a bell. Is he a cousin or sumpin'? Or, "I'm only here to annoy you"  jh
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He's better known, I guess as "Brangelina."
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Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Whoa there JB,
Who's this Brad Pitt guy? I know some Pitt's over in Dixon, MT, population 216. But "Brad" doesn't ring a bell. Is he a cousin or sumpin'?
Or,
"I'm only here to annoy you"
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I haven't seen this movie. Is it the one where people get younger riding Triumphs? 
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I haven't seen this movie. Is it the one where people get younger riding Triumphs? [/quote
I thought that was the new "Mork from Ork" starring Jonathan Winters.
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It appears to be a 1956 T110 Tiger 
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so when did angelina change her name?
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omg that movie was horrible. i think his first bike in the movie was an indian then he switches to the triumph. even with the bike sightings its 3 hours of my life i'd like to have back. they should have called it "forrest gump stays home".
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that article is wrong about a few things for one the first year the T-110 was swing arm was 54, I have one. That color is shell blue. Few others but those are the ones that bugged me. 
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omg that movie was horrible. i think his first bike in the movie was an indian then he switches to the triumph. even with the bike sightings its 3 hours of my life i'd like to have back. they should have called it "forrest gump stays home".
I respectfully disagree. I thought it "poignant."
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Interesting... His wife (girlfriend, whatever...) is on a Striple in some new movie she's in.... http://nachofoto.com/gallery/Angelina_Jo...ew_movie_Salt-1
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She should have some glasses on.
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Huzzah!!! 
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Excuse me, and before my moder-tater co-conspirators lock me down, I believe by definition "chaps" are ***less. If they're not, they're generally called "pants" 
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Yep, just saw it, nice bike,,, but the Triumph ain't all he road....... 
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