Quote: Well, as is often the case with us here Ian, we disagree.
'Cause, while there were no cruisers present, and of which I doubt Triumph will make one using this new platform for at least another year, and this is if they even ever bother making one at all, I really LIKE these new machines!
AND 'cause, minus the radiators of which I think are VERY well hidden and which are definitely NOT at all obtrusive to the overall appearance of these bikes, they look even MORE like the classic Triumph twins of the 1960s than do these air-cooled babies of OURS!!!
(...but then again as I said, I doubt you'll agree with me here, huh!)
We sure do disagree, aside from some engine cues I don't think they look anything like the 60s bikes of witch I own several.
Sorry Ian, but while none of those bikes may look like any of the Triumphs YOU might have owned or now own 'cause I know you're really into choppers(and btw, I also own a Triumph from that earlier era, as you may know..a customized T120-based "Street Tracker"...an American-style FLAT Tracker with lights, and NOT like what the present Triumph company evidently thinks a "Street Tracker" is) these new bikes DO look VERY much like machines that could have been parked out in front of the Ace Cafe back in the day.
And I understand there where very few American style choppers parked out in front of that famous London establishment back when the Beatles and the Stones first hit it big, and probably because choppers handle like crap compared to cafe racers, and so the chances of any British bloke finishing one of those fabled runs and returning back to that cafe before the end of the record playing on the jukebox while astride a chopper would have been greatly diminished.
Heck, just take another look at THIS one again and which was posted earlier in this thread...
...and if THAT one doesn't look almost EXACTLY like a late-60s T120 with a vintage Dunstall racing fairing attached to it but only with a more modern upside-down fork, then I don't know MY Triumphs, dude!!!
(...in other words, these new machines look SO much like what the BRITS rode back in the '60s, and much LESS like what many of us Yanks did to our Britbikes once we got hold of 'em, and 'cause that whole Cafe Racer scene never much translated across the Pond to any great degree...well, until recently anyway!)
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)
