 My New (to me) 2003 America
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Hi everyone. I've been trolling the forum for a couple weeks now and thought I would post up pics of my new ride. She's a 2003 America. Bought her from a local dealer with just under 12k miles on. I've had her for a week and put about 200 miles on already. I've never owned a cruiser style bike but it's been fun so far. Within 5 minutes of my first ride on the streets I had someone shout from their truck "hey Triumph dude, nice bike!". Respect the Umph.   And a pic of my 1976 Bonneville that I rescued from a basement in Maine. She's in a sorry state in pieces around my garage but soon she'll be an angry cafe racer again. 
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Bar Shake
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Nice bike Ryan. Welcome to the site! 
"Catching a yellow jacket in your shirt at seventy miles per hour can double your vocabulary" Author unknown
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Nice ride and you have a pretty good project on your hands I see.
Welcome to the forum.
One day as a tiger is worth a thousand as a sheep
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Nice bike(s)! And a hearty welcome to ya!!
Live to love, love to live.
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Fe Butt
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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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Welcome to the forum. Nice bike you will be happy with it, I promise. If not drop it in my garage. 
I try to aggravate one person a day. Today may be your day.
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Within 5 minutes of my first ride on the streets I had someone shout from their truck "hey Triumph dude, nice bike!".
Get used to that. It WILL happen repeatedly!
Welcome to the forum.
Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth, is come; He will guide you in all truth:
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Welcome to the site Ryan. You will fit in real well. Nice bikes. Excellent first post.
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Nice looking ride. Congrats.
That '76 seems like a fun project too.
~Brent
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"Nothing you can be is more terrible than what I am." ~ 2007 Black Speedmaster!!
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Actually, not the carefree highway. It's the end of Elsworth Rd right in front of Salt River rec tubing place. If you're familiar.
The 76 is going to be a long term thing. I actually bought the 03 to keep me from going stir crazy as I work out the "how-to's" of my first big bike project. Needed something to ride until she's done.
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Check Pants
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Welcome and nice find on the '03, that baby looks mint!
Al
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Alllright!! Two Trumpets in the garage! Welcome to the site!
Fidelis et Fortis
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Should be Riding
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Very nice ride you have Ryan. Welcome to the machine.
Bestest colour combo imho.
funny thing about trumpets and colour: the top of August 2007, the first week I had Cinnamon Girl, I received more comments from the proletariat as I rode her through Texas, Oklahoma, then eastward to the Gold Capital of Georgia, then Vera Lynn had since I indentured Vera and rolled her off the showroom floor Oct 2001.
Red really elicits comments. Black is just badazz.
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Check Pants
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I like that 1976 motorbike (& obviously the other one too  ). "I was older then, I'm much younger than that now........." jh
"It's not what I say that's important, it's what you hear" Red Auerbach
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"I was older then, I'm much younger than that now........."
jh
Well of course you're "younger now", John!
(don't forget...you've got that whole "new face" now, dude!!!)  
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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Check Pants
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don't forget...you've got that whole "new face" now, dude!!!)
When you get right down to it, faces are highly overrated in this day & age Dwight,
But back to Ryan's bike's,
I like that 03, but a 1976 oil-in-the-frame T-140 was the first bike I ever sat on, owned, kick-started, rode and rode. I'll be interested in hearing more about his restore project, if he chooses to share it on these humble pages. I was older then........
jh
"It's not what I say that's important, it's what you hear" Red Auerbach
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Don't know if you need any parts for your 76 or if a '73 can be a donor... Pinwall is parting out a '73. Don't know the model but worth a look!!! http://stores.ebay.com/PinWall-Cycle-Par...d=p4634.c0.m322
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'04' Black America
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Hows that project bike comming along?
Erwin
05 America
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Within 5 minutes of my first ride on the streets I had someone shout from their truck "hey Triumph dude, nice bike!".
Get used to that. It WILL happen repeatedly!
Welcome to the forum.
He ain't lying!! While cruising on the interstate, I had a dude in a truck cut me off just so he could wave and give me the thumbs up through his rear cab window.
Gorgeous color combo though! Sheez, I think that's like the 3rd Black/Gray I've seen in a row. FJ's REBOOT, another chap's, and now this one.
I do like that decal(?) on the battery box there. Half S&S and half UJ... very nice.
2003 Caspian Blue America: Rush Exhaust, FREAK Kit, Almost Chrome Everything, 150/80/15 and 120/90/18 WWW, 18T and 42T Gears, Speedy Tach.
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