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Hopefully accruing 140,000 miles on my 2006 Triumph America is some sort of milestone.
My dealer Canton Cycles (no longer in business) trailer-ed the bike from Winsted to my home. It had been over 25 years since I rode a motorcycle. I'm kind of lucky I live on a dead end road. So initially I got accustomed to the bike b4 I went out for a ride.
My longest trips were to Montreal, Canada.
Did that twice up one day back home the next.
Long trips like that may not be in the near future,
I try to go for longer trips each ride to increase endurance.
150 miles on a day trip is about all I can handle these days.
What is the most miles you have first hand knowledge on a Triumph America?
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Re: 140,000 Miles
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Joined: Feb 2007
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Fe Butt
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Fe Butt
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Was on an old Triumph but I rode from here in NE PA to Cody Wyoming only stopping for gas and food. Took 36 hrs.
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
Eat right ,Exercise ,Stay fit, Die Anyway!
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Re: 140,000 Miles
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Joined: Jan 2008
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Learned Hand
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I am thinking that the farthest I have ridden a speed master in a single day was Whitewood SD to Austin MN. The weather was good, if finding gas stations in Minnesota wasn’t such a challenge I might have gone farther.
I made that trip in 2007, so younger.
05 speedmaster - 1100cc, 11:1 racing pistons, Carillo rods, thunderbike cams, ported and polished head, 2mm over intake and exhaust valves, Barnett kevlar clutch, scepter pipes, oversize manifolds, 45mm HSR's, TTP stage 4 firestarter
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Re: 140,000 Miles
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Joined: Feb 2007
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Fe Butt
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Fe Butt
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On my SM from here in NE PA to SC on my way to FL. Wendy wanted to stop I would have been in Orlando in about 21 hrs.
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
Eat right ,Exercise ,Stay fit, Die Anyway!
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Joined: Jan 2005
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Should be Riding
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Should be Riding
Joined: Jan 2005
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Hopefully accruing 140,000 miles on my 2006 Triumph America is some sort of milestone.
My dealer Canton Cycles (no longer in business) trailer-ed the bike from Winsted to my home. It had been over 25 years since I rode a motorcycle. I'm kind of lucky I live on a dead end road. So initially I got accustomed to the bike b4 I went out for a ride.
My longest trips were to Montreal, Canada.
Did that twice up one day back home the next.
Long trips like that may not be in the near future,
I try to go for longer trips each ride to increase endurance.
150 miles on a day trip is about all I can handle these days.
What is the most miles you have first hand knowledge on a Triumph America? 140k is huge! Congrats! My bikes odometer readings: Vera Lynn 117,747. fuel rail leaking Cinnamon Girl 89,709 needs carb rebuild Prudence 74,476 my highway ride. While high numbers there are other members who have many more !
Blowing gravel off rural roads
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140,000? That is amazing! I'd like to add my congrats, as well.
John 3:16
let's ride...
1969 Triumph Trophy 500
2004 America
2010 America
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