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SoCal Triumph had this custom standard bonnie derivation at the Love Ride this past weekend. I stumbled across this picture on Flickr. Overall it's not my cup'o'tea but I like how just about everything except the tins is blacked out.  http://www.flickr.com/photos/ktdid/2982083157/
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Throw some different tank badges on it, and we got a winner!
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Like the blacked out look, don't like the tank badges and think the sheetmetal should be a darker color.
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All it needs is black tins and a black seat...
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Like the blacked out look, don't like the tank badges and think the sheetmetal should be a darker color.
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Colour/color looks weak
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Colour/color looks weak
Ray, don't pander to *that lot*. If they're gonna steal our language, the least they can do is get it right!!!!!
Not a big fan. The blue of the metalwork is great but...it makes the bike look top-heavy. This is one time where removing the tank seam is important. The badges have to go (never did like the polycarb things), plus the decal on the side-panel. The ped.slicer would look OK if the above was done.
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The main problem I have with the badges is the lack of contrast. For us color-blind folks contrast is key for readability. But I'd rather see no badge at all, and of course, a different color.
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Colour/color looks weak
Ray, don't pander to *that lot*. If they're gonna steal our language, the least they can do is get it right!!!!!
Not a big fan. The blue of the metalwork is great but...it makes the bike look top-heavy. This is one time where removing the tank seam is important. The badges have to go (never did like the polycarb things), plus the decal on the side-panel. The ped.slicer would look OK if the above was done.
Yep. I have to agree with this member of "that lot" over there on that little island, alright! I'm not all that crazy about that "TARGET" painted on the side cover, either. Is that supposed to be where all the cagers out there are supposed to AIM their front bumpers at!!! 
(yep, which reminds me...I could ALSO never understand why "that lot" over there would purposely paint a TARGET on their airplanes for their enemies to SHOOT AT???!!!)
  
And I'm not all that crazy about the color...ahem...COLOUR...the rest of that motorcycle...err...MOTORBIKE is EITHER!!! 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Actually the target is called a Roundel and was used on WWII and other British aircraft as an identification marker. And to me it looks as if the bike tin was painted to resemble aircraft camouflage markings. And the brown leather seat if reminiscent of pilot jackets. So I'm seeing a theme here.
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Yep. I knew that Troy. I's was just funnin' with that there Limey ov'r there Neill, after he started funnin' us with all that there "panderin' to 'that lot'" kind'a talk. (every once in a while somebody around here has to have a little fun with G.B.Shaw's old "two people separated by a common language" observation....it's just "the-nature-of-the-beast" 'round here, what with this "Trans-Atlantic motorcycle connection" we have goin' on, ya know)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Dwight I think Neill meant "Colour/Color" bit
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I understand. I grew up amongst peoples who were separated by a common language even from their own countrymen. Still use hillbillyish on occasion. Am also fluent in Deltaese and can speak a little south Georgia accented southernish.
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I actually quite like it. Roundel included.
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<Yep. I knew that Troy.>
Yep...i bet...
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WOW! Your first post and you're mocking the all-knowing Dwight! 
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WOW!
Your first post and you're mocking the all-knowing Dwight!
well, he is crazy 
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Actually the target is called a Roundel and was used on WWII and other British aircraft as an identification marker. And to me it looks as if the bike tin was painted to resemble aircraft camouflage markings. And the brown leather seat if reminiscent of pilot jackets. So I'm seeing a theme here.
Aha, I see it now. The tank has clouds painted on it.
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Your first post and you're mocking the all-knowing Dwight!
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This does not do much for me, BUT. I love the front mud guard with the old style support struts and front number plate. Wonder if that would fit on the America.
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The target, the color, and the tank badges gotta go. Paint the whole thing black. Maybe the triangle Triumph badge on the tank. Would white walls look good on this bike? A bike like that should stay simple.
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I disagree, Chris. That bike is great looking, minus the tank badge. The paint scheme and roundel pay homage to the history of British fighter planes, and this bike conveys that theme very well
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