Quote: I'm just trying to understand how anybody winds up owning one of these grat bikes without discovering this forum first.
Doesn't anybody do any online research before they buy these days? I know I would have wound up with a slow V-Twin Japanese bike if it were not for this forum.
My friend (who used to be a member here,demoman) Bought an America and let me ride it. I liked it and it was still stock at the time. Now I have been a Triumph nut for over 30 years and am not interested in buying anything else except antiques such as Norton , BSA, Triumph etc.. like I always have. Trouble is when I built up my collection they were $300 give or take each, heck my 54 T-110 with matching numbers was $20 as a basket case.Any way I had found this forum but never went past the title page, I was looking for custom stuff not info. I went and bought my SM never having read this forum simply because it was an air cooled vertical twin with carbs, I never liked any of the other new Triumphs except the T-100 style line and the Rocket has grown on me and I may buy a Rocket touring model eventually.I swore I would never buy a new one until they came out with an air cooled twin and thats just what I did.
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