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I don't understand how you guys don't like the looks of this bike. It looks exactly like my america, only with a radiator on it. Because of that, I consider it a vast "improvement" over the america. Been in alot of traffic jams and was worried about cooking the motor. Don't need that. If they follow the same lines of the past with some nice two tone colors "I would buy one".


Jerry



So Jerry, this new Thunderbird "looks exactly like" your America, huh?!

Tell me, when did you hack off the cooling fins and cant your engine slightly forward on your America, dude???!!!


(hey, maybe that explains your worrys about "cooking" your America's motor, huh?!)

Look folks, almost everybody's INITIAL "feelings" here about this new Thunderbird are not anything close to their INITIAL passionate "feelings" about their BAs and Speedys, RIGHT?! And because CRUSIER-style motorcycles are sold primarily upon their LOOKS(the opposite of Frank Lloyd Wright's dictim of "Form FOLLOWS Function"), as say Triumph Tigers or BMW GS-series motorcycles are designed, or even most modern Sportbikes are, then I'm sorry to say that I personally don't see "big sales figures" for this machine.

And so overall I'm sorry to say...NO, make that "DECLARE"(I'm sooooooo modest, ain't I?!) that this new Triumph cruiser is a sub-par effort that COULD HAVE been a HOME RUN, and not just a "weak single up the middle"!!!

Last edited by Dwight; 08/23/2008 1:05 PM.