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Hi all!

Before I bought my America I searched a long time on the Web to find some web site in french language in order to see what owners say about the America, or to find pics or tips ..

I didn't find one, that was because I came here at newbonnevilleamerica.com

But a lot of french people do not read/write english easily (of course I don't) and it's hard for us to particpate to yours threads.


You can find some french forums about triumph motorcycles but they all talk about speed triple, daytona, tiger and so on... but no one talking about America

Finally , I've made a site about America for french people :
http://www.triumph-america.com

I do not plan to make my site "the best one", I just want to present America to french people and talk about accessories, tips, etc..

I hope that will be useful for frenchies who are looking for informations about the America

(Maybe this post seems like advertising, so you can delete it if you think this is)

Thank you

Very cool, Thierry!!!

I think you done good there, dude!!!

(yeah...and you think YOUR english is bad, huh???!!!)

Thank you Dwight.

I'm assuming you're gleaning some technical info from this site?

All I would ask is that you give us some link love and let those French members who DO read/write English about this site, and where possibly some of that information came from.

Good luck!

Hello FriarJohn

I don't know what mean exactly "gleaning"...
I assume you mean "retrieve technical informations from your site to put on mine".

This is not the case. I wrote billets myself.
And I always write from where pictures come (others watermarked are mine) and I always put a link to the shop, the mark
, or web site I retrieved the information.

Each time, I've contacted someone to obtain the permission to use pictures. I did not use their text. It's my own work.
(Web is my job, I know the rules)

I stopped read the technical part of your site because i do not understand all technical terms you use here. And it's hard (for me) to write or explain in english ... (Even if Dwight thinks my english is good )

I spend half an hour to write this !

But you're right. I omitted to put a link to you. It's done now. (I launched the site two weeks ago, so it's not all complete)

Thank you for all. I do not want to take your place, I just want to talk about my bike to french people. I'm not a mechanical any more (I was during 8 years but 29 years ago) or technician, so my web site would be not so complete as yours, and be sure I talk about you in my forum if a guy make a post about technical.

More sites about Americas and Speedmasters are always a good idea.
Your English is fine. Much better than my French.
You have my permission to use anything I have written or any
pictures I have posted on your site.

Thank You BrianT

(I don't think I'll use things you wrote here .... 2117 posts !!!! That will be a very hard work and very long time to spend for me !! )

I just saw "Greenhorn" in my status.
What does that mean ???

over 25 posts

Thanks for the link!

Instead of "glean" perhaps "harvest" would be a better word.

But as you indicated, it's a moot point.

Welcome Frenchy!
All you have to do around here is ask.
You will get more advice, opinions, suggestions,
life stories, insults, and praise about all things
Triumph, non-Triumph, religious, pollitical and
MORE!

Uncle Charlie

very nice site too bad it wasnt in english

@FriardJohn
Maybe I had not well understood the sense of your phrase (in your first post). Anyway , it's ok for me.

I also make a post in my forum for you here :
http://www.triumph-america.com/forum/un-forum-us-a-ne-pas-manquer-t13.html

basically, that means (translated):

Quote:

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"It's rarely the use to recommend another forum (in a forum) , but I can say that it's the must.

http://www.bonnevilleamerica.com

It's an US site, thus for those who are familiar with the language of Shakespeare (French joke here !)

It's a gold mine. A very active forum specially dedicated to Triumph America and Speedmaster. If you have questions that do not match answers here (in my forum) , I recommend this site to you. American people have Custom culture, the site is very busy "

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Well, by now, the forum counts only 4 users.
But I hope it will grow and bring some people to you .

I wish I could read French...that site looks good!
Best of luck to you with it.

Your French site is very good. As far as translation goes. If you download the "Google" Toolbar, there is a pretty good translator included which converts complete web pages simply by clicking the translate button.. It's not 100% but you can fix any translation errors if you have some knowledge of the language.

Great job Tfrenchy

Thierry, site Web fantastique mon ami!!

Sera conduite par le biais de Honfleur, Le Mont-St-Michel, La Rochelle et Le Touquet (juin) l'année prochaine et vous êtes bienvenus pour nous rejoindre ! Mon français n'est pas grande (comme vous pouvez le voir) mais je peut obtenir afin entre nous, nous serons fines. Où sont désormais la bonne marche autour de La Rochelle et Rochefort ?

Whaou !!

Thank you all !
Youre great! I hope french people will come now...

I'll try the Google toolbar for translation. Thank's for the tip

@BlueNose :
It will be great to meet us when you come in France. Remember to alert me ! Rochefort is about 30 km from La Rochelle. Will you come here too ?

At the moment 2 nights in La Rochelle sometime late June. Will keep you and your site posted. line up T'Bird 1600, America, Speedy and Tiger with one buring rice (keeping his distance at the back)!

Fine !
You welcome !

John didn't mean you can't use info from here all he wanted was credit where credit is due. the info here is available and free to all who need it. At least that was what I think he meant.

I think your English is PDG . . . pretty darned good. Better than my French!

Bon chance on the new website of yours!! But ummm, it wouldn't load for me so maybe it's down for maintenance? I'll try again later.

Nice going frenchy and be sure to keep in touch okay?

In reading your posts, you sound like a pretty good dude, frenchy. Good luck to you and your site!

Bonjour TFrenchy,

Le site ne semble pas être en ligne en ce moment. Probablement en construction? Tu devrais mettre un message d'erreur tel que: "Désolé, triumph-america.com est en reconstruction. Revenez plus tard."

Si tu as besoin d'aide dans la traduction de certain termes techniques ou instructions qui ne te semblent pas très claires,, n'hésite pas à m'envoyer un message. Je ferais de mon mieux pour traduire.

Bonne chance!

@FriarJohn : understood.

Now server is down.
Sorry for that ... I'll make my best to get it up again asap.

@perceval : Le site n'est pas en construction. Le serveur est down. (hasard aujourd'hui : le weekend)

Thanks

YeaaHHH !
Server is Up now !

Well, my provider move the server to a new datacenter, but he did'nt prevent me . (my company hosts the sites of my customers)

So monday, I rent a new one quickly (in another company) and began loading some sites. I called the provider at least 80 times !! (every half an hour, really !) . At the end I was not very quiet as you imagine.
I sent him about 20 emails . He never calls me or reply to the email to say me what 's happened to the server.

And today around 3 PM, he calls and says " Ho, we've just move your server in another datacenter, now here is the new IP ".....

What ?????

You F%#@n Bas#@rd !!

So, my customers call me since saturday morning .. very angry, of course . But I cannot smooth them down...

Well, by now their sites are up again , mine too.

What a couple of days I spent !

Well Thierry, after all that trouble you had to go through there, at least you can take some comfort in knowing that your cool new website has ended up working now, eh?!

And BTW...after I read this part of your story here...

Quote:

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You F%#@n Bas#@rd !!

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...I think I'm starting to see why after we english-speaking folks curse, we often will say "Pardon my french there!"!!!

(though, now that I think about that AGAIN, that STILL doesn't make any sense at all, 'cause those are ENGLISH words!!!)

Thanks Dwight.

And yes, those are english words

That part of my blood line from France , the Chastains , applaud you.

nice work on the new forum, it looks great!

Thank You all !

Bonjour ! Mon Francais est mauvais. Votre anglais est bien mieux ! Travail gentil sur le site Web.

"Rosbeefs" Ha ha ha!! Gotta love the French! I haven't heard that name for the English for a long time!

Poor, misguided Dwight . . . if you could hear how badly I butcher the accent you'd run for the Chunnel!

Yeah??? But to first GET TO the Chunnel from L.A., I'd first have to pass through Kentucky and right by you, wouldn't I???

OH, wait a minute, I guess you meant if we were both in France, huh?!

(hmmmm...well I don't know for sure here mind you, but I don't think they have a Rock Store over there!)

Yeah! I've heard!

And they say the Mona Lisa has gained at least 15 pounds since they opened it there!!!

(...that would be about 7 kilograms, BTW)