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Stickman Yogi
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Re: Bonneville concept bike
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Should be Riding
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Should be Riding
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Ya beat me to it. I was just about to post it. 
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Adjunct
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I like the front end, the rest of it not so much.
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Loquacious
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Why do all these bikes have a seat that sucks?
I'm old school. I like the T100 seat.
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It's somewhat reminiscent of the new Norton 961. 
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New Tires
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New Tires
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Why do all these bikes have a seat that sucks?
I'm old school. I like the T100 seat.
I say why bother, get a Thruxton. The only thing attractive about that bike is the engine.
Seat?, it's covered with cotton poplin boiled in wax. 
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Learned Hand
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Why do all these bikes have a seat that sucks?
I'm old school. I like the T100 seat.
I say why bother, get a Thruxton. The only thing attractive about that bike is the engine.
Seat?, it's covered with cotton poplin boiled in wax.
I concur
Strangler
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Loquacious
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Why do all these bikes have a seat that sucks?...
I think their geared toward "younger men". 
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Old Hand
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That's just ugly. They can keep it.
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Fe Butt
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Fe Butt
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I kinda sorta like that custom Triumph Cafe Racer up there, but there just a few things I'd change about it.
First, while that girder front end is kinda cool, I'd change the headlight to a larger diameter one and one that's a little flatter or thinner in profile there.
Secondly, I think the rear "bum-stop" in the seat area needs to be longer and extend farther back over the rear tire.
But other than those issues, I like this bike overall and I really like the gas tank, as it reminds me of the Dunstall Triton gas tanks of old.
(...however, all things considered, IF Stuart Garner ever gets his sh!t together over there at his Donington Park factory, I'd take that BEE-YOU-TEE-FUL new Norton 961 also pictured above, and over this Triumph Custom...well, that is IF I ever win the friggin' Arizona Lottery!!!)
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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Second Wind
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Why do all these bikes have a seat that sucks?
I'm old school. I like the T100 seat.
Here maybe this is more to your liking.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe
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