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He was a member here, haven't heard from him in a while. Always liked that bike except for the chrome tractor seat.
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Yea it has a sweet back fender with the lights built in and a 200 rear . One of the nicest ive seen.
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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Rolled his own right-side jockey shift, too. Sweet bike. Hot rod style.
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Alot of nice details on the whole bike and good looken chick painted on the rear fender.
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[IMG]http://i542.photobucket.com/albums/gg411/ROB900/thunder027.jpg[/IMG heres a look at the back fender
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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I don't remember seeing the cheesecake on the rear fender.  
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That shift linkage is very trick. He bascially used two complete forward control sets with some custom brackets. I don't recall the lady on the fender when I saw it at Butlers Orchard in '07.
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This was with the display at Germantown (Butlers Orchard): 
Al
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I missed that one! I would have liked to look that one over! I did see a bunch of Speedy's and America's though. I was suprised to see some of them that still had the air injection intact. They were the ones with the blued or discolored pipes!  There was 5 of us that rode out and we all had a good time and we got a chance to visit Triumph of Winber. A good bunch of people out there! 
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I love all the red highlights!
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Very VERY nice lookin' "50s-style" Speedy there. And for some reason, the more I look at that chromed tractor seat, the more I'm kind'a likin' it, and maybe because it somehow matches the look of the chromed gas tank instrument cluster??? Though, I think that puppy MIGHT get "a smidgen warm" out here in sunny Arizona!
(...but sorry, while it looks like a very sanitary job of linkin' it all up, I'll never understand the reason one would convert a perfectly good foot-shift system to a jockey-shift which requires one to constantly take one's hand off the handlebars in order to shift gears?!)
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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Tom Speedy is very nice but,you should see his Bonnie cafe he built just as nice.
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(...but sorry, while it looks like a very sanitary job of linkin' it all up, I'll never understand the reason one would convert a perfectly good foot-shift system to a jockey-shift which requires one to constantly take one's hand off the handlebars in order to shift gears?!)
Oh Dwight... don't start showing you age now. The REASON for hooking up that hand shifter is, well... because it's cool man!! Sometimes that's the only reason ya need!  
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Left side jockey would be cool with a foot clutch. What he has there is a suicide shift, a jockey shift in low and behind your leg and kind of looks like a jockey hitting his horse with his riding crop when you shift, hence the name.
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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(...but sorry, while it looks like a very sanitary job of linkin' it all up, I'll never understand the reason one would convert a perfectly good foot-shift system to a jockey-shift which requires one to constantly take one's hand off the handlebars in order to shift gears?!)
Oh Dwight... don't start showing you age now. The REASON for hooking up that hand shifter is, well... because it's cool man!! Sometimes that's the only reason ya need!
Yeah, well, listen to Ian's definition of that setup there, Keith ol' boy...
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...Left side jockey would be cool with a foot clutch. What he has there is a suicide shift, a jockey shift in low and behind your leg and kind of looks like a jockey hitting his horse with his riding crop when you shift, hence the name.
The learned gentleman from NE Pennsylvania called it a "SUICIDE shift", didn't he?!
(and sooooooo, call me "Mister Safety First" here if ya want, but I THINK I'll stick with usin' my "un-cool" foot-shift setup, IF you don't mind!!!)
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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he was at triumph come home this year.
that bike is really well done.
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because it's cool man!! Sometimes that's the only reason ya need!
Sounds like a quote from Dennis Hopper. 
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That is a sweet bike. Have to check out Thunder in the Valley next year.
2005 Speedmaster, Tornado Red, AI removed, Uni Pods, JCW 19" turnouts
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If you camp go to the ABATE at the fair grounds the other ABATE site down by the creek or river is a mud hole plus the fair grounds has toilets and sinks and showers not port-a-crappers.
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If you camp go to the ABATE at the fair grounds the other ABATE site down by the creek or river is a mud hole plus the fair grounds has toilets and sinks and showers not port-a-crappers.
Yea, or if you plan on getting a room somewhere you have to make reservations pretty early to get a room. I am fortunate enough to know the guy that runs the billeting at the aviation base out near the airport. The rooms are as nice as most hotels and only cost us $25.00. Great deal. and a good time!
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Seen this triumph at thunder in the vally rally in johnstown pa on saturday
