AND...
"But I protest far too much. The Bonneville, with its sedate styling and sit-up-and-beg riding position, never tries to con you into thinking it is a café racer. This beauty costs just a tad over £5,000 and offers more biking pleasure than machines double that price. It turns heads and comes into its own as a metro commuter bike or country-lane scratcher.
If I had my way, and my wife was a little more ready than she is to let me to ride motorcycles, the Bonnie would be my basic workhorse, supplemented by something with a fat rear tyre and 140bhp under the tank for those racier forays.
I can't wait to get the Triumph back from Andrew so that I can bring it home and park it next to my Jag. In Kent."
