I don't really have time to go mining for quotes about the site for the homepage. I really liked Ted Buffington (Michamer)'s quote when he introduced himself, but it's kind of lonely all by itself on the homepage (sidebar, Testimonials).
If this site means something to you and you would like to write a 1-3 sentence quote about it for the homepage, please respond below. But please keep replies to just that, or legitimate questions on the topic. I will edit the quotes for proper spelling, punctuation and grammar, but not for context.
Oh one last thing, if you have a negative impression of the site, for any reason, please send me a PM. I will only be posting positive quotes on the homepage.
So, what does bonnevilleamerica.com mean to you?
I wish I'd found this site before I bought my 03 BA,
not three years later. Could'a saved a lot of $$$$$.
Once here, I learned much, and made many good friends.
Been to (iirc) 4 NH, 4 NE, and 1 GA rallys. I also
put on several mini-events: my Triumph Tech Days.
I've had the pleasure to meet, and ride with over
125 or so members here. And 9 of the original moderators.
Still hope to meet Sandman, and Friar John, someday.
The info I've gotten from this site is invaluable,
and I try to share what I've learned with others.
Amen!
Uncle Charlie
I stumbled upon this site while looking for reviews on the TA.
Not only were my concerns laid to rest but I found a great bunch of people from all over the world who will assist in anyway possible and have become like a family (in a good way)
The people I've met in the flesh have been just the same as online
All in all, a great way to be welcomed back into motorcycling
I dont often post,but I read every day and value the folks on here more than I will ever let them know.
You people have set me free from the tyranny of HD...and I both like and value the freedom of your thoughts.
Hey,what a bunch of free thinking freaks....
Al
Thanks, guys. More quotes are welcome.
Top two great things about owning a Triumph BA. First, riding one. Second, this site!
Riding motorcycles is a way of life. Triumph Speedmasters, Americas and Bonneville Americas have soul. Bonneville America.com brings people who live this way of life and ride these real machines together. I have found people all over the world who live the life I live and together have helped each other through this site. I urge you if you have one of these motorcycles then you need to be here, we are family.
Ride on BA.com.
I've met good people both on and off the forums that have become true friends. From technical expertise and advice, to bantering and humour, the community here is great! Our bikes brought us together, but this 'family' keeps us together.
Communication with fellow riders with the same interests. Chance to learn a fair bit of technical info from riders that have been there and done that. Overall well worth being a member of!
As soon as I realized how much information is here for the taking, I was all over it like a hobo on a ham sandwich.
Bonnevilleamerica.com means Encyclopedic Knowledge about your bike.
Performance/custom mods?-Everything you need to know.
Maintenance/repair?-The best Tech Vault you've ever seen.
People just as crazy about your bike as you are?-Welcome to the Funhouse.
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I wish I'd found this site before I bought my 03 BA,
not three years later. Could'a saved a lot of $$$$$.
Once here, I learned much, and made many good friends.
Been to (iirc) 4 NH, 4 NE, and 1 GA rallys. I also
put on several mini-events: my Triumph Tech Days.
I've had the pleasure to meet, and ride with over
125 or so members here. And 9 of the original moderators.
Still hope to meet Sandman, and Friar John, someday.
The info I've gotten from this site is invaluable,
and I try to share what I've learned with others.
Amen!
Uncle Charlie
Okay, Charles, doing a little "cleanup" here... 
What do you mean "4 NE"? New England?
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As soon as I realized how much information is here for the taking, I was all over it like a hobo on a ham sandwich.
This isn't a contest, but if it was, Ed wins. 
Thanks everyone. All of these are in the quote database and will load randomly anytime some hits the homepage (or any other non-forum page that shows the sidebar). All except unclecharlie's, until he answers my question and I can finish the cleanup. 
"This site is so good, it restored my virginity"
Because of BonnevilleAmerica.com, I bought a Speedmaster instead of a Honda.
The Forum is very "active", and Worldwide. I found answers to questions I never had to ask because others had already asked and the answers were there.
Forget a tool kit. Just have access to BonnevilleAmerica.com!
Life was without meaning. my bike wouldn't run, the sun didn't shine and my dog had bitten me. All seemed hopeless and lost until typing in a desperate plea for help , a search engine gave me this site. Today the sun is out, the bike runs better due to tech vault help and some of the members took care of that dog and gave me a new one that has no teeth... thank you BonnievilleAmerica.com my life is now worth living...
My identical twin brother found this site while waiting for delivery of his '03 Speedmaster. He made friends here and gleaned much knowledge. After he passed away I latched onto his bike and joined the site, what a great place to be.
Okay, here's ya a quote:
Four score and seven months ago(okay, maybe a little longer ago than that) our Robert Wade brought forth upon the internet a new website, conceived in the Midwest(I think) and dedicated to the proposition that not all Cruisers are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil experiment, testing whether that website, or any website so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
And so far anyway, it looks as if it can!
(...and now, if you'll excuse me, I've got some rail-splitting to do)
Buy the Triumph and join this site. Nuff said .
Don't be a pirate,
join BA.com,
sell your Harley and your ute,
ride Triumph,
America or Speedmaster,
with BA.com,
Remember black ones are faster.
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Don't be a pirate,
join BA.com,
sell your Harley and your ute,
ride Triumph,
America or Speedmaster,
with BA.com,
Remember black ones are faster.
I believe you meant to say 'black ones are fastest'
it had to rhyme with Speedmaster.
I originally came here because I was looking for information about my America. I found that and more. Five years later and I am still coming back because of the people.
I come here because it dosn't usually smell of rice.
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I come here because it dosn't usually smell of rice.
Stevie, don't forget the Pasta and Saukraut.
what dont like to hear the truth this site is lame
Gee, rosco, looking at your 17 posts two things are apparent:
1. You haven't once written a complete sentence.
2. You're a miserable cuss.
I'm happy to hear negative feedback, though I can't imagine what that would be, so I need it articulated (look it up) better than that.
why you be so hard on rosco he seem like ok guy
I don't understand much about what's posted on some of the forums, that's cose I don't ride motorcycles. But I do log in every day.
I would be lost without this link to the outside world. Thanks for keeping it going.
Join B.A.COM its the most fun you can have off your bike .
Well, THAT is not exactly true.
What site brings together a multitude of men and women with questions, answers, real life experiences, technical expertise, trip reports, items to trade, humoUr and growing friendships.....all because of their love for the Triumph America and Speedmaster? Bonnevilleamerica.com (Trust me!
Gregger)
THE BEST PLACE ON THE WEB WHERE YOU WILL MAKE THE BEST FRIENDS YOU HAVE NEVER MET AND HOPE TO MEET.
Best site, best layout, best tech vault, knowledgeable forum. If you want to know about your New Bonneville and it's riders, you've found the right place. B.A.Com rox.
How about "More fun than being stepped on by an elephant".
Come here for the information, Stay for the entertainment!
Save your self some Cash...log into this Forum! alot cheaper than paying a dealer labor charge! Its almost the best fun you can have with a broken leg!
I'm a member of BA.com and I'm a chromoholic.
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Come here for the information, Stay for the entertainment!
Very accurate.
In the voice of Obi-Won:
Those aren't the sites you looking for.
You'll be coming here now.
Move along.
Triumph made my bike. This site made it what it is.
Bought the America in Nov '03, found BA.com a week later. Still ride the bike, still going to BA.com every day. Tells you both are good.
Big_Poppy use to wear a shirt that had a pretty good saying, something like ...
Triumph, Turning Men into Mechanics. How about something along those lines like..........
"BA.com, Helping regular people become great mechanics"
what do you think
2011 Triumph Speedmaster $7,999.00 US
2006 Triumph America $7,899.00 US
Massive quantity of accessories and customizations $6,000.00+ US
Bonnevilleamerica.com "PRICELESS"
You've wasted enough time with all those other bikes and websites.
It's time to get real.
Bonnevilleamerica.com
What attitude?
Bonnevilleamerica.com
Great Bikes
Great Times
Great people
Bonnevilleamerica.com
I thought I was directed somewhere else, it'd been so long. Very nice front page. Feels kinda like welcome home.
Really enjoy the site. Keep up the great work!
Added a dozen or so more quotes. Posting this to remind myself where I left off...
Lots of good info, good people, and great friends (Oh, and Dwight too
)
A whole bunch of people "going their own way", except in a group. Huh?
Life Events/Milestones:
1. call my family
2. email to my friends
3. post to bonnevilleamerica.com
4. notify the office
there are no strangers on this site, only friends I haven't met yet
Last summer on the Friday before a long weekend, my bike started misbehaving: stalling at idle, running rough, backfiring. I was dismayed because the weather forecast was awesome and I had planned to ride all weekend.
I got home and right away posted the symptoms in the Technical Talk forum. Within minutes, a reply came from a fellow member in Sweden: "Sounds like you have an air leak." A few minutes later I found the leak. Quick trip to the local motorcycle shop and $2 to replace a damaged "squirrel condom" and my problem was fixed.
I've saved countless hundreds (thousands?) of dollars buying and selling accessories in the Classified, gone on memorable rides with friends I met on this website, learned more about my bike than this non-mechanic ever thought he could learn, laughed my @$$ off at the stupid stuff posted in the off-topic forums, but that one saved weekend by itself was worth every minute I spent on this site.
Earlier this year I traded my America for a Rocket III (a big mistake - don't do it. PM me if you think you might want to get a Rocket one day and I'll talk you out of it), but this is still the first place I come when I want to kill some time chatting with other motorcycle enthusiasts. It's the best motorcycle forum bar none, whether you own an America or not.
I currently own 4 makes of bike (Triumph, Yamaha, Suzuki, Honda). I am a member of at least one site for each of them. This site is still my favorite, hands down. I look at the others occasionally, I hang out here.
I came to this site to learn about the bike I just bought. I've learned more in a couple weeks than I ever would have with a manual and lots and lots of time. Great, helpful group of entertaining people.
i came here becasue the person i bought my bike from said this was a great source of info for my Speedy. Since then i have met several new people, got great deal on some bags and am looking forward to meeting another good member in a few days for a ride some steak and a couple frostys! What the heck more can a person want from any forum.....great site i am sticking around for the cake LOL
This site is why the internet was invented
Since you took the trouble to google etc for information about your Triumph motorcycle and came across "Bonnevilleamerica.com", why not hang around here and get to know why so many of us frequent this site on a daily basis.
There is more information on this site than any other Triumph site on the internet where the America/Speedmaster motorcycles are concerned. As each day passses more and more people frequent the site bringing more information to everyones fingertips.
So before you leave, join the best site on the internet, and make friends "worldwide".
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"I came across this site in 2004 aftr buying my first Triumph America, and even though I do not post everyday I am sat in the background, reading and learning daily"
i love sharing things that are exciting to me about these bikes, i think only another enthusiast can really appreciate where i am coming from. I have been treated well and fairly, received a ton of great info and support and met some friends to boot! What the heck more can a person ask of any site/forum
Good Stuff!
I was all over it like a hobo on a ham sandwich.
I’ve heard people say,
“It doesn’t matter what you ride , just so long as whatever you ride, make’s you smile”!
Well thanks to this website its great to know that there a thousands of like minded people, worldwide that are riding around with the self same stupid grin on their faces that I’ve got!
Thanks for all the technical and mechanical data that users have posted, this site is a mine of useful information. And in the lounge forum, some maybe not so useful but equally amusing!!
Kevin Molloy R.I.P. back in 2004 wrote as a member on the Massachusetts Chapter of the British Iron Association's website:
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...Be that as it may, having recalled that the Bonneville America in its stock finery was painfully quiet, I spent a great deal of time on www.bonnevilleamerica.com, a website dedicated for TBA and Speedmaster owners to share technical and non-technical banter and post photos of their bikes, behinds and the like. The website is a tremendous resource.
It contains links to various vendors which are making and/or offering a wide variety of aftermarket performance doo-dads and chrome tom-cobbley specifically for the Bonneville, TBA and Speedmaster. The website had an on-line survey of what members had done for performance hop-ups in terms of airbox and filter modifications; removal vs. non-removal of the factory air injection system; exhaust system relief; carburetor (carburetor) rejetting; and, air/idle mixture adjustment. Before I'd taken delivery of my Speedmaster, I knew everything that needed to be done in order to make it run respectably.
Kevin's original posting as archived by the Way Back Machine
I have really enjoyed everything about Triumph Motorcycles since I cobbled my first (a 1973 bonnie 750) back to life from the boxes back in 1976. Since then I have restored/rebuilt another 12 over the years (rode em & sold em). Looking back over all that wrench time, I wish there had been as comprehensive a resource for technical information as the BonnevilleAmerica website available then. When I bought my 07 BA, I searched for a website so I could learn more about the newer Triumphs including my BA. What I found here is a tresure trove of really great technical information, and individuals willing to assist/guide fellow Triumph enthusiasts with hands on information. I found a real "world community" of people who enjoy Triumph cycles, and love riding as much as I do.
well, to paraphrase the old NHRA radio spots:
ANYDAY, ANYDAY, ANYDAY, BA.COM, BE THERE!!!!!!!!!
Here's a few slogans I've been thinking of:
Bonnevilleamerica.com: Because pointing and saying "Bike broke" to the mechanic is only for Harley riders.
Bonnevilleamerica.com: Getting more horsepower that Sportsters since 2001.
Bonnevilleamerica.com: Where logos cost less than $150.
Bonnevilleamerica.com: Proving parrallel twins are badass.
Bonnevilleamerica.com: Rice should be steamed not burned.
Bonnevilleamerica.com: "Does this mean I need to rejet?"
Bonnevilleamerica.com: You're not a biker till you get grease under your fingernails.
I can't always be riding my America. For the times I am not, there is BonnevilleAmerica.com.
or...
BonnevilleAmerica.com... Helps to pass the time until I can ride again.
Admittedly, I am not too good at this, but I thought I'd include myself anyway
I dont come on here much anymore, not like I used to. But I always found this site to be a true bike club, albeit a Virtual one. I can come in the lounge, see some old faces, meet some new ones and I'm always welcome.
And the added bonus, I can sink a few pints and I dont have to worry about getting home.
Best biker club I ever joined.
"helpful yet irreverent, BA.C frequently has me spewing beer out my nose."
-steve0suprem0
Hey FJ, I only know you rocked BA.com.
I was reading an older post a while ago and found this, hope you done mind Ed but I thought it was funny as H3LL!
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they are ugly, look like a farting grasshopper and sound like a monkey farting in a bathtub. I am too old to spend the day sitting like a constipated frog.
Outstanding, helpful people here.
Enough said.
I sold the SM (miss it though) bought a storm, have singed up for a couple "other" sites that deal more with the storm and this site and more importantly these people on this site are some f the nicest most helpful and trustworthy people i have ever had the pleasure to meet both on-line and some in person. So i stay here.
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I sold the SM (miss it though) bought a storm, have singed up for a couple "other" sites that deal more with the storm and this site and more importantly these people on this site are some f the nicest most helpful and trustworthy people i have ever had the pleasure to meet both on-line and some in person. So i stay here.
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I sold the SM (miss it though) bought a storm, have singed up for a couple "other" sites that deal more with the storm and this site and more importantly these people on this site are some f the nicest most helpful and trustworthy people i have ever had the pleasure to meet both on-line and some in person. So i stay here.
Its all in the same family, keep on keepin on.
At the local Triumph dealer I was told that only 3% of the motorcycles In the U.S. are Triumph. That means for every 100 motorcycles I pass on the road only 3 will be Triumphs. Thank God for BonnevilleAmerica.com. I come here to learn and share a passion for a motorcycle. I do not want to be one of the crowd, but I am grateful for a place I can be among the 3 percent.
I have been with Bonnevilleamerica.com from the very beginning. I rode my black '03 out of the showroom and met Robert online the next day. The site has always been a friendly, fun and personal experience. Not only can you get 100% pure unfiltered Triumph motorcycle knowledge, but being here usually feels like the greatest old bike shop in the world, complete with great fix advice and smartass, salty bikers. BA.com is truly one of a kind. Thank you Robert...
Indeed..
It's hard to believe I've been a member here for 14 years this April. It really is like family. there is not a day that goes by that I don't check in.
That best part IMO is the many many people I've have been fortunate enough to meet as a result of being here. As fun as it is to cruise the BA.COM site it is even better to meet the people and connect the faces and spend time with the members here. Several of you have become close friends and riding buddies.
Here's to the next 14 years.