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Thanks for clearing my confusion Erwin! I'm still new, both to Triumph motorcycles and to this site, so I didn't realize that they sometimes change the years on the bikes when they crossover late in the season. No matter what the year is, Jerry, it's a beautiful bike. For some reason Triumph has stopped shipping that colour as of mid May...it's been replaced with the Caspian Blue and White. My dealer tells me that as far as anyone there knows, Triumph has never changed a paint colour for a given bike midway through a model year. Speculation is that the paint for that particular colour may have come from Japan and is no longer available due to the damage from the quake/tsunami. Whatever the reason, apparently the contact at Triumph has said that those of us who got the bike in that shade of blue are lucky because it makes them rather rare in this model year. If anybody has any information about this I'd be really interested in hearing about it. I'd also love to know the exact name of the colour. I've seen it called everything from Pacific Blue, Caribbean Blue, Eclipse Blue and even Caspian Blue (depending on which Triumph site in which country you go to). Not much agreement on the name it would seem.



My dealer called it Eclipse Blue / Crystal White, go figure.

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