 After three months of rejoining rat
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Three months after rejoining the new free rat I finnaly got a email here it is...
Thank you for your email. Torque magazine is shipped quarterly: March, June, September, and December. The upcoming magazine is scheduled to ship in the next week. Please let me know if you have any additional questions.
Take Care,
Tia Robinson
Dang I got chills just hearing the news
Chris
Pain heals, Chicks dig scars, and Glory last forever.
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Worn Saddle
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Thank you for your email. Torque magazine is shipped quarterly: March, June, September, and December. The upcoming magazine is scheduled to ship in the next week. Please let me know if you have any additional questions.
Take Care,
Tia Robinson
The check's in the mail.
I'll respect you in the morning.
I won't..
A word to the wise is not necessary. It is the stupid ones who need the advice.
Pat
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Fe Butt
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Wow Chris! And just think of all that indepth and unbiased reporting you'll have coming your way too!
I don't know...but the Rat thing just never did a thing for me. Back when I bought my '02 BA and after receiving my free years subsciption to their magazine(and it seemed at the time, whenever they got around to sending it), I went through the whole publication in about 5 minutes.
Dwight
(and trust me...I'm NOT an Evelyn Woods graduate either)
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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Should be Riding
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I went through the whole publication in about 5 minutes.
That long? I flip through it to check out a couple pre-detrmined RAT packs in the Northwest and the single page they have for real peoples bikes, that is about it. It will stay that way until they actually do an article on our bikes that the lack of ANY mention still make me feel like our bikes are the red-headed step-child of Triumph.
Soren
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1. I Like my bike. 2. I like the people on BA.com and learn more here than I ever would reading RAT Rag. 4. The RAT Rag is not worth the price of subscription. 5. I have spring fever and my nose hairs hurt. 
JB
"Long live the Duck Force!"
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Soren, Well GEEZ you d*mn Mossback! I SAID I wuz a sloooooow reeeeeader! But I TOTAL AGREE with you on the subject about the apparent lack of "respect" per se, this "americanized model" garners within EVEN it's own company and it's sphere. There has always seemed a somewhat embarassment attached to Hinckley's mindset about "stooping" to make a cruiser. What many people laboring in that Midlands factory AND many a rider and motorcycle magazine editor in Ol' Blighty have NEVER SEEMED TO LEARN is that America IS the largest "High-end" motorcycle market in the world, AND just because your product isn't the lastest, greatest, FASTEST and most Hi-tech wonder on the planet, DOESN'T make it "inferior"! Cheers, Dwight (and JB...ONLY your nose hairs hurt?...You're lucky, man...with this freakin' cold that I've got, my WHOLE nose hurts!!!)  
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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What many people laboring in that Midlands factory AND many a rider and motorcycle magazine editor in Ol' Blighty have NEVER SEEMED TO LEARN is that America IS the largest "High-end" motorcycle market in the world, AND just because your product isn't the lastest, greatest, FASTEST and most Hi-tech wonder on the planet, DOESN'T make it "inferior"! Quote:
IMHO Triumph should have sunk a little more money into the America and Speedmaster and charged a little more to make the bikes standout. They could have added some high end features like adjustable brake and clutch levers, belt or shaft drive, better brakes and possibly fuel injection. The incremental cost would have been maybe $2K. I would have spent $8900 for my America, especially if it had those features. I was looking at VStar's and VTX's that did have some or all of those features. The Triumph had so much character I went for the Triumph even though I really wanted shaft drive.
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Ah come on guys, don't the articles about riding your Tiger thru Moroco get you just the wee bit envious . NOT !
I used to have a handle on life, but it broke .
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The funny part is the TBA and TBS always sell
all they can build
Its Cinderella of motorcycles
Chris
Pain heals, Chicks dig scars, and Glory last forever.
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I have also been trying to renew for three months, but the website does not work past selecting your dealer. I have e-mailed serveral times the information about my and my son's bikes. All I get are e-mails saying they helped me, but don't say we are renewed or not. I have pretty much given up. It's ashame. I really enjoy the mag and it's photography. I would have gladly paid for it. Dave 
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My first issue, the "End of an Era" subsription...... I asked my wife where the rest of it was? Thought for a minute it was a 2-part issue. HMmmm,
'05 America - Tec 2-1 (from a Thruxton)/ 4 pot caliper/ Kurt's Rearsets /
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It's free guys. You're not paying for it any longer. That should make up for article about touring Morocco. Maybe sometime soon they'll have an article on touring Little Rock. That'll be worth reading.
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You know you get what you pay for but, in this case we may of been ripped off
Chris
Pain heals, Chicks dig scars, and Glory last forever.
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I went for the Triumph even though I really wanted shaft drive.
Whew, I'm glad it didn't have a shaft drive. If you're going to make a retro bike, that shouldn't be in the design. Only thing I find lacking is the power. If they'd have made it 1,000cc instead of 790, we could've gotten around 80hp and 70 or so ft/lbs of torque easily with the standard mods. That would've been perfect for the 2up riding I do, and I would've paid an extra thousand bucks for that.
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I had a devil of a time also and met the same brick wall as you. Tried two different servers, same results. Finally circumvented going thru the UK site to get to the US site (don't ask me how) and was able to join right up.
I used to have a handle on life, but it broke .
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