Yep! I think our basic argument here IS actually quite the same, ol' buddy! I TOO can not quite understand some of the other opinions I read around here that seem to imply or outright say that the new T-Bird "isn't a 'real' Triumph", EITHER!!! Yep! I guess the concept of "modernizing" a product in desciption of a changes an engine's BASIC design element may morph into over the years, AS WHEN a company decides to switch the valve actuation from the old principle of recipricating pushrods contacting reciprication rocker arms TO a system with less recipricating parts via a DOHC arrangement, allowing a vertical-twin to run at higher RPMs and in a more efficient manner, CAN BE quite a stretch for some folks out there who, let's say, might think that WITH liquid-cooling, or maybe WITHOUT say a KICKSTARTER, any motorcycle isn't a 'real' motorcycle EITHER, HUH?!
(okay, let me see here...with that ONE paragraph I managed a shot at not only Ron's argument about DOHCs and "heritage", BUT most IMPOTANTLY, I got a shot at a HOST of OTHER guys around here who I think are REALLY stuck in the past!!!)
(...BUT, even WITH that just said, I STILL think the new T-bird, an OTHERWISE nice lookin' motorcycle which WILL sell pretty darn well, NEED FINS!!!...and MOSTLY for aesthetic reasons, you understand...NOT for any mechanical reasons!!!)
