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2003 TBA Thunderbike pipes / floorboards / and the most uncomfortable seat known to man....
Barry aka: 8-Ball
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Nice looking bike, always liked that colour, but she ain't old until the stock tyres are gone!
TBA, Stainless extractors / drag pipes, 65mm over forward controls, Thruxton needles, 904cc, head ported, lowered 1-inch, Console removed, relocated battery box, Australia.
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Should be Riding
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Nice bike and great pictures. I particularly like the last pic of the tank... that's classy!
Live to love, love to live.
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Nice looking bike, always liked that colour, but she ain't old until the stock tyres are gone!
I'm on my 3rd set. I just keep buying OEM tires.
2003 TBA Thunderbike pipes / floorboards / and the most uncomfortable seat known to man....
Barry aka: 8-Ball
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Nice looking bike, always liked that colour, but she ain't old until the stock tyres are gone!
I'm on my 3rd set. I just keep buying OEM tires.
Just out of curiosity, why? I love my nice sticky Metzelers.
Cut it up.
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Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet ride.... I really like looking at super clean bikes... Well done. V.
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Someday I predict that of our bike s , the ones ( as per SBS287 s '03 TBA) that are clean, functional and basically original will be worth the most money, in my case, I want to ride on a bike completely adulterated to my tastes and specs. That better resale value will accrue when I'm either too old to care, or I'm already dead and gone. BTW..Lady B. is a beautiful bike IMHO
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She sure is pretty. 
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She sure is pretty.
It's the Cardinal Red that sets her apart!
Live to love, love to live.
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Yeah, that is for sure one of the best stock colors. And as for unmolested bikes, its prolly true. I touched all of my bikes no no places however.
2008 Speedy, AI removed, DIY airbox destruction with K&N filters, spectres, re-jetted and "custom" rattle can paint job.
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I do have a few add ons. The pics are a little old but Lady B does have the following:
Progressive front / rear suspension
Thunderbike Pipes
Triumph Windshield
Triumph Floorboards
AI removed
K&N filter
Speedmaster Tach
Saddlemen bags (too small) w/ easy brackets
LED tail lights and signals
GPS mount
I had the stock seat but it just didn't cut it. 20 miles into a ride and my tailbone was killing me. Then I tried the Triumph touring seat. That was even worse. So then I sent the stock seat off to Mean City Cycles in NC for a re-upholstery job with memory foam. That helped a little, but even with an Air Hawk pad I'm only good for about 80 miles before I just can't take the pain anymore. I wish I could find a decent seat. That and some Tsukayu Strong hard bags and I would have what I consider to be the perfect bike.... for now.....
2003 TBA Thunderbike pipes / floorboards / and the most uncomfortable seat known to man....
Barry aka: 8-Ball
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CORBIN,
Just make sure you tell them you want it on the softer side maybe with some gel an mem foam. I have felt some hard ones (my gunfighter) and some that are on the softer and cushy side. get the king and queen, as the gunfighter (as i have it) still gets you in the tail bone due to the fitting for the optional back rest is in it.
cheers.
Mal: "Y'all see the man hanging out of the spaceship with the really big gun?{ref, Jayne} Man's lookin' to kill some folk. So really, it's his will y'all should worry about thwarting."
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Barry aka: 8-Ball
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Nice ride, love the color
Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts. - Charles Dickens
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That's crazy that it is hurting so bad after 80 miles.  My stock gunfighter was good for about 100 miles before getting unconfortable, but I can go a lot farther since having the seat foam redone by Spencer at Great Day To Ride. Maybe it is foot position and/or your position on your bike (back). Maybe you need a backrest. It just seems you should not be so uncomfortable so quickly. Strange.  ~Brent
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I had the stock seat but it just didn't cut it. 20 miles into a ride and my tailbone was killing me.
Really? You should try 214 miles on a stock '72 Bonneville...Now THATS PAIN!!!!
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Well guys, after a look at some recent x-rays, the problem is the rider and not the seat. Turns out somewhere, somehow, who knows when.... I ended up breaking my tailbone and the broken part seems to be pointing in the wrong direction. Wish I could remember when that happened. Combine that with the BA's riding position and, tada!!! Sore Arse!! I'm going to try and custom up a seat that will work. I'm sure it will be ugly as sin but if it keeps me out of pain then it keeps me on my bike.
2003 TBA Thunderbike pipes / floorboards / and the most uncomfortable seat known to man....
Barry aka: 8-Ball
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Well guys, after a look at some recent x-rays, the problem is the rider and not the seat. Turns out somewhere, somehow, who knows when.... I ended up breaking my tailbone and the broken part seems to be pointing in the wrong direction. Wish I could remember when that happened. Combine that with the BA's riding position and, tada!!! Sore Arse!! I'm going to try and custom up a seat that will work. I'm sure it will be ugly as sin but if it keeps me out of pain then it keeps me on my bike.
Nothing can be worse lookin then an unridden mortorbike.
2007 Speedmaster and miss it!
2013 T-Bird Storm and Luvin it!
Catching a yellow jacket in your shirt at 70 mph can double your vocabulary
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She sure is pretty.
It's the Cardinal Red that sets her apart!
I knew you'd say that Keith,she is a bute. 
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Its too clean!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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HEY now, Grzegorz ol' buddy, REMEMBER...not ALL Triumphs in the world are run in English weather!!!   (...btw Barry, beautiful shots here...in fact, I can see why Whitt picked the one in the Fall colors as "Miss November" for his calendar this year)
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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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Sorry Grzegorz. I'm a neat freak!!! Going on 10 years old and looking like new. Just the way I like it.
2003 TBA Thunderbike pipes / floorboards / and the most uncomfortable seat known to man....
Barry aka: 8-Ball
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was only joking  really like your bike
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