Bonneville America Forums Forums Off Topic Discussion Forums Lounge how did you hear about this site????

i remember it like it was 4yr ago hahahahaha
i had just bought my new 02 B.A. and was filling her up at the corner station, when this guy pulls in on a regular Bonneville WOW, we got to talkin and he tells me to get in touch with MA's cycle that i can get the info on the web. so i called them and told them i was lookin for exhaust, they told me i might want to get in touch with Team Triumph. So i called them and after talkin to Todd for about a 1/2 hr, he tells me to check out this page. WOW the next thing ya know i was listening to a sound bite of the scepters and ordering a set. so how did you come to hear about this site????

gooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle

mert

I was trolling the web for reviews on the "new" Triumph I was concidering buying...not nessacarily willing to belive the dealer about how

"These are nothing like the Bonneville you used to ride, these are much more dependable and the engines are bullet proof"

I loved the look of the bike but was haunted by the 1979 Bonny (love/hate relationship) I had, and did a search on {Bonneville America} there you (we) were top of the list...

but I was looking for reviews not "fan" sites so it took some time for me to go here...now I'm "old" here...

and an addict...
it's my home page at the office...
I check here before I go to bed,
when I wake up,
and it runs ALL day when I'm at work...

maybe we need a 12 step program...

After I bought the bike I was looking for stuff to buy for it YAHOO search here we are and man was that a costly Yahoo

After I rediscovered Triumphs and in peticular the Speedmaster and America , I started searching online and came accross this site. That was almost a year before I was able to get my bike, so that would make it sometime in the first part of 2004.

Soren

typed into google something like Triumph Bonneville America and hit it.

After seeing a TBA on the road, I wanted to find out all I could about the new Trumps. Hit Gooogle and wound up here before before I wound up with the bike.

You know I really don't remember.It was on the original site I guess when I was surfing the net and stumbled on to this site.Did not join until much later though.

I was thinking about the new Triumphs (in Feb. of '03) and looking at reviews, when I came across a riders review by a guy named Robert Wade. He said that he liked his bike so much that he created a web site dedicated to it, provided a link (of course), and here I was.

My first post was responded to by newt and renegade.

My wife was googling to find a source for those Triumph bras. She stumbled on this site instead.

I remember linking to it from a Triumph dealer's site, but I don't know which one. Was interested in the SM, and more interested in Honda's VTX - 1300 by then (was still at that time thinking the VTX 1800 was the coolest looking production cruiser available, with all the CCs as icing on the cake). A none rider then (this SM is my 1st), I was wanting something big enough for 2-up, figuring shaft drive, radial tires, and water cooled engine would all be necessities, and no way was I going to risk buying too small a bike, and then wanting to trade up soon thereafter.

The 1300 had been unveiled, (but not yet released at the time), and it was certainly going to be big enough. As Cycle World had said, a great bike for the novice. I had just discovered the AMERICA and SPEEDMASTER, but that 1300 was looking good.

In one of the first posts I read here,(2nd?, 4th?), someone asked about the 2-up capabilities, the long distance tour possibilities, power, and the like, and I wish I could remember who that was. I remember Greybeard, and Grump, among others, who replied in that thread - overwhelmingly - about how much fun and capable these
machines are. I had stumbled upon a very new post from someone asking the exact questions I had been asking. I never looked back at Honda again.

What impressed me was the factual and believable responses posted. Convincing. The fact that the whole forum seemed "active", and "a-buzz" intrigued me to read more posts/threads, thereby aquireing answers to more questions, but asking more still. That was the Fall of 2003, and I had just found MY FAVORITE CHANNELL: BA.COM

My name here was "17697" then, the NASCAR fan I am, and after 3 years+ of window shopping Honda, I had made up my mind that the SPEEDMASTER was the bike for me. Got me stirred up enough to go take the MSF class that Spring, and buy the bike.

Like TV stations we tune our lives into, this is a channel I enjoy a lot!

And the SPEEDMASTER is SWEET!

Google!

I remember Robert telling the users at the Delphi BA forum that he had put up this new site of his. I got #33 and remember that it was fun to see when the member count went above 100, then 500, 1000 and so on. Still here almost every day.

After I picked up the bike in 5/02 and was hitting the different motorcycle part sites looking for aftermarket accessories for the bike, one of the sites (I don’t remember which one) had a link to this site and I’ve been here ever since…

Did a google search for Hinckley Triumph parts, I had owned my bike almost a year before i found it.

Local dealer's site linked to Rat.net, someone there referenced this site about something.

Ditto Piper

I took my son to the National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham (UK), and was accosted by some strange polish bloke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(see below)

Now I am an ADDICT!!!!!
Oh now and he is sat here in my kitchen pinching all my lager!!!!!

I had my bike a whole year before I found it too. I had just moved to NY and was looking for a RAT pack or other folks to ride with figuring every state had just as active a pack as MA did at the time. For me it was all about riding. So in googling Triumph, it dawned on me to google Bonneville America, and low and behold bonnevilleamerica.com! DUH!!! Why didn't I think of that a whole year ago? Not sure how far into the site it was but that would have been roughly Jan of 03 I think...

me picture above !!!!!!!!!!!!searching internet

I had gotten something from New Bonneville ( Brent) and tried to go to that site and typed in Bonneville American By mistake. Looked it over and decided that the girls have class and the guys are wild and crazy like me.

Sean, the Parts Manager at SoBay Triumph in Lomita, California(okay, he's really the only parts guy there) told me about this place a few years back.(there ya go FriarJohn....BLAME HIM!)

I was looking to "vent" about the lack of a substantial Triumph presence at the World Superbike race at Laguna Seca Raceway in 2004, and remembered Sean telling me about this website.

Cheers,
Dwight
(and just LOOK at all the "fun" you poor slobs have now reading my "witty" crap)

I thank these guys and Martyn for bringing me here..

I can't remember what I had for lunch yesterday.

...yeah...googled bonneville america also.

Google - where else?

I set down on a Speedy & had to have 1. I stumbled on to Pat's site then shot him an e-mail to ask a few questions about the bike.

um, do you YAHOO?

all the time!

I had my bike a few months and one of the guys at a rat ride told me about it. That woulda been in the early spring of '05, I guess. Since then I turn on every BA and SM owner I meet to it.

Poke around a bit at triumphrat and it just ain't the same. Like our bikes, this group just grabs you in the heart.

I think I googled "new triumph owner's group" or "new triumph bonneville parts". That was about 8 months before the new site started. Sho' glad I found it. I've got real edumacated since gettin' here.

A guy at the triumph dealer back in april of 04. Never did get his name.

While I was scrounging up a down payment for my '02, I spent a lot of time searching the internet for anything I could find related to Triumph. I think I found the Delphi forum first. I signed on at #13 to this site. After the new format started up I had a hard time registering for a long time. I just recently got back on and I'm starting to spend almost as much time here as I did in the beginning.

found it on google....angelis

Told about from my dealer, Bob of Palm Beach Triumph when I bought my TA in 03.

Name check on the Triumph Rat site