Before I get the flood of ‘how dare you criticise the most wonderful bike in the world’ responses let me say clearly that I love my new TBA- it’s great…I’m happy …life is wonderful.
O.K. have we cleared that up?
Good. I’ll continue
My new bike in black looks great now, but on a trip to a Triumph dealer the other day, I couldn’t hep but notice that all the recent TBA/ Speedmasters for sale were looking a bit sad at quite low mileages…I mean that the lacquer was peeling from fork legs and the paint on tanks and mudguards etc. looking rather flat and dull-this seemed to be especially true of the black ones and these were all at low miles- -well under 5k mostly.
This could be coincidence(or a sloppy shop) so I’m asking anyone who uses their TBA/Speedy year round in particular how they’re holding up to the job.
In some ways it’s not that important-after all a bike is to ride not just look at- but I’m also someone who likes my machine to look as good as it runs( This, after all, is a man who ran his Harleys year round through British winters and simply coated them with 4 layers of WD 40 each autumn and then scraped these off again come spring…thus disproving the myth that HD’s are in fact water soluble )
So, anyone out there got the answer to retaining my youthful good looks?
Well, the bike’s at any rate-some things are beyond help.
Al
