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Unbelievable story. I was at a local dealership yesterday and a guy was trading my old America for a Thunderbird. The same America that I traded for a Rocket last spring and missed every day since then. Long story short: I bought my old bike on the spot and added it to my stable alongside my V-Strom. It's good to be back, folks. Full story on my blog here: Triumph America: A Love Story
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Loquacious
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Funny how things work out 
"You can't believe everything you read on the internet" : William Shakespeare
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That is one of the better goes around comes around stories I've heard. 
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Bar Shake
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A bit of an Eganesque moment there 
Contra todo mal, mezcal; contra todo bien, también
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Great story! 
Live to love, love to live.
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Should be Riding
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Great story, every time I ride my bike and think about what else I would like to ride, I come back to: "No, this is the perfect ride for me, now and around here." I would like to add to the stable, but conflicted about what. Welcome back, ride safe.
Warren
04 Caspian Blue and Silver America
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Check Pants
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Check Pants
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SOLD: 07 Black BA, 39mm FCRs, TPUSA stage 1 head, TPUSA 813 cams, TPUSA 10.8:1 pistons, TTP #3 igniter, Specialty Spares Long Cannons, Tsukayu Hard Bags. 82HP/55tq
NEW: 19 Goldwing Tour DCT
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Love it !! Don't ever let her go again. We who own America's understand completely. Welcome back !! 
08 America
Rinehart exhaust, Clearview shield, Viking bags and magic carb's
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i have often found that when somethings keep comeing back around like that, i am supposed to keep whatever it is. so i would take it as an omen(good or bad) to keep it unless someone offers you an outragous amount of $$$ for it, cuz that could be why it came back  welcome home 
ENJOY!!!!! NEWT!!!!!
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Should be Riding
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I'll toast a glass of raw milk (with a piece of apple pie) to that!
Blowing gravel off rural roads
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Great story and nicely told in your link, Joe. Yep, as bigbill noted, the tale was told very similar in style to how noted motojournalist Peter Egan tells his stories...beautifully!  (...oh, and yeah...welcome back!)
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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Thanks all. I rode her all day today and grinned from ear to ear all day, too. What a great bike. And I'm serious in saying this: the best part of owning an America is this forum. The best in the motorcycling world, bar none.
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Check Pants
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Sure is a better story than 'I'm gonna a buy Harley cause I'm all butt-hurt 'bout the way the stealership treated me". 
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Fe Butt
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Have anyone in mind here, Ryk???
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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Great story. I agree, the America is just right!
Cheers, Richard
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09 America, Staintune Pipes, K&N, Breathe, Hagon Nitros, AI & O2 removed, tune 20184 (modified), MTX-L a/f gauge
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Worn Saddle
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Welcome back and thanks for the story!
Fidelis et Fortis
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Quote:
And I'm serious in saying this: the best part of owning an America is this forum. The best in the motorcycling world, bar none.
And he didn't even have to be paid off for that statement......
12 Rocket Roadster
03 Bonneville America
69 BSA Firebird Scrambler
73 Yamaha TX 750
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Were you gone?   Excellent story Joe.....
Karl
Odessa, MO
'07 America, Cinnamon Girl (aka: Black Beauty or Ol' Penny) - Sit Down, Shut Up & Hang On
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Quote:
Sure is a better story than 'I'm gonna a buy Harley cause I'm all butt-hurt 'bout the way the stealership treated me".
+1
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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Good story,, I also liked your "ITS FUN" story. I am gussing the particular lady didn't ask for a ride?
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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Bar Shake
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Great story! I'm glad she's back in your garage where she belongs.
"Catching a yellow jacket in your shirt at seventy miles per hour can double your vocabulary" Author unknown
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Bar Shake
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Quote:
Sure is a better story than 'I'm gonna a buy Harley cause I'm all butt-hurt 'bout the way the stealership treated me".
"Catching a yellow jacket in your shirt at seventy miles per hour can double your vocabulary" Author unknown
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I know what you mean Joe, I certainly miss my first America which I bought in 2004 and then joined this site, since then I bought a speedmaster which was new after having igniter problems with the 04, smashed the Speedy up and bought a 2002 America, and then bought a Thunderbird, but still have the America...
Ray(UK)
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