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This one put a smile on my face.

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The fact that there playing Motorhead is a great touch.

Awesome bike.

Excellent. And made all the better with Lemmy and Co as the sound track.

As always, when ever some on posts one of these videos i spend the next 30 minutes or so wasting my working time watching clips. Who on here watched the kettle videos. There is something very pleasing about hearing a 2 stroke on full song.

Ringa-ding-ding-ding, RINGGGGGGGG-A-ding-ding-ding.

and you know, i think they were on the wrong side of the road!

By golly Bill I reckon your right!

Only a matter of time before "correct" side driving countries (Saint Kitts and Nevis, Niue, Cocos, Guernsey, England) evolve. First we exported Coke, then Burger King, then McDonalds. You will evolve and drive on the right. It's only a matter of time. We are the Borg. Resistance is futile.

Pretty flat straight road. Couple nice pot holes though.

I remember like it was yesterday the day I spotted the cover of the old "Cycle Magazine" on the newsstand, back around 1971.

I had just bought a brand new '71 BSA RocketIII. The '71 Rockets were redesigned that year with a more traditional teardrop gas tank and mufflers, as the original '69s and '70s with their somewhat breadbasket looking gas tanks and their "Ray Gun" mufflers were flyin' outta the showrooms about as well as say a Mel Gibson autographed picture would in Tel Aviv right now.

Well, I spotted that cover of "Cycle" with a young Craig Vetter standing next to his prototype RocketIII that looked like a cross between a flattrack racer and a chopper, and said to myself, why hasn't BSA already started production on that beauty.

As it turned out, by the time the boys at Birmingham Small Arms had decided to indeed put it into production, the company became yet another in the long line of british motorcycle companies that through a combination of mismanagement, quality-control issues, and labor problems had gone the way of the Dodo, so that sleek lookin' machine, because of BSA and Triumphs merger a few earlier would become a Triumph, using almost all of Mr.Vetter's original design, including the BSA inclined triple engine, which would be delineated from the original T150 Triumph vertical triple, as the henceforth Triumph T160.

Now...if there's anybody left awake after reading this, I just like to say that I always thought that this machine was one KICK-A$$ LOOKIN' BIKE, and back in the day I would'a given my left nut for one of 'em!!!!

That's it,
Dwight
(BTW....I probably STILL WOULD, but who the hell would want the left nut, OR the right one for that matter, of an "old" middle-aged dude like ME?!)

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No it's you lot that ride on the wrong side... we're on the correct side!

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But you drive on the Left. How can you be Right if you drive on the Left.

As much as i love the look of the Vetter Triumph. Personally speaking, the 1975 T160 is as nice as it gets.

This bikes rates as being one of my favorites of all time.

Gotta agree there. I had one and foolishly sold it in '81 to buy a Merc Cougar . Fun bike!