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....I suspect that in Bloor and co's eyes, extending the displacement would be stretching the current reliability threshold.
Why invest any further resources into that?



Sorry ol' buddy, but I believe your "alibi" for Mr. Bloor and Co.'s refusal to have ever created a "Super Bonnie" or maybe a "Bonneville S" model does not hold up to scrutiny. I believe this because from reports I've read here on this website who have gone the Big Bore route, and also from talking with those I've met who went the B/B route during the time I was hanging around South Bay Triumph in CA, where Matt Capri has become that very example of the "Cottage Industry" I mentioned in my previous post, that vast majority of those I've encountered have experienced little if any decrease in reliability afterward.

However, granted, my "complaint" is now almost a decade old, and you are most likely correct with thoughts that the future of these air-cooled engines is or will be reaching it's end very soon, due primarily to an air-cooled engines' difficulty in achieving tightened air quality standards in that future.

Once again, my major "complaint" has always been that Mr.Bloor and Co.'s business plan to build the Bonneville line "to a cost" only, and disregarding their potential performance gains(in order words, making them ONLY, from the factory, "nice looking mid-sized retro-styled machines, built to as low an initial cost as possible") has relegated them ONLY as such, when there has ALWAYS been much more potential for them to be more than just that.

(yep...all these years the Bonnies could possibly have been closer to the "fire-breathing" road machines that they were named after, which, back in the day, one could walk into any Triumph shop and purchase straight up from the factory)

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)