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The new ad has a half man half motorcycle hybrid. The bike part is a Triumph. Is it a Bonneville or one of the new Speedmasters? https://www.ispot.tv/ad/I4QW/progressive-motaur-wishes
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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Gotta be a Bonnie! 
John 3:16
let's ride...
1969 Triumph Trophy 500
2004 America
2010 America
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Looks like a butchered bonney to me, they even forgot to put the oil cooler back on .. 
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It's a Bobber.
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Well, at least it's some custom built hardtail first generation air-cooled VERSION of a Bobber anyway, Ade.
(...'cause it sure isn't one of the latest water-cooled Bobbers 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)
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It's a Bobber.
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Well, at least it's some custom built hardtail first generation air-cooled VERSION of a Bobber anyway, Ade.
(...'cause it sure isn't one of the latest water-cooled Bobbers anyway)
Single front brake disc and silencer look like the Bobber.
Seat looks like an old classic leather thing but it is in the same low-down-into-the-frame look.
As I'm not using it right now, I'd bet my left nut it's a Bobber.
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"You can't believe everything you read on the internet" : William Shakespeare
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It's a Bobber.
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Well, at least it's some custom built hardtail first generation air-cooled VERSION of a Bobber anyway, Ade.
(...'cause it sure isn't one of the latest water-cooled Bobbers anyway)
Single front brake disc and silencer look like the Bobber.
Seat looks like an old classic leather thing but it is in the same low-down-into-the-frame look.
As I'm not using it right now, I'd bet my left nut it's a Bobber.
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I tend to agree w Ade because of the frame. If you look from the back the setup is just like a Bobber. Of course it probably doesn’t even run. They probably pulled the radiator out of it. 
"Catching a yellow jacket in your shirt at seventy miles per hour can double your vocabulary" Author unknown
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It's a Bobber.
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Well, at least it's some custom built hardtail first generation air-cooled VERSION of a Bobber anyway, Ade.
(...'cause it sure isn't one of the latest water-cooled Bobbers anyway)
Single front brake disc and silencer look like the Bobber.
Seat looks like an old classic leather thing but it is in the same low-down-into-the-frame look.
As I'm not using it right now, I'd bet my left nut it's a Bobber.
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I tend to agree w Ade because of the frame. If you look from the back the setup is just like a Bobber. Of course it probably doesn’t even run. They probably pulled the radiator out of it.
You of course meant the "OIL COOLER" here Paul, NOT "radiator".
'Cause once again and trust me here, that AIN'T no newer WATER-cooled Triumph Bobber ENGINE sittin' in that frame there, dude! Nope, it's a first generation Hinckley AIR (and oil) cooled Triumph twin cylinder engine sittin' in that frame there. And, you can tell this especially by the lower cases on that guy..err..bike, because the newer water-cooled engine lower right side cases have a little round protrusion on 'em which were designed to mimic the old Meriden-built Triumph twin's ignition points cover.
Plus, the newer water-cooled SOHC top ends are a little lower and flatter than the "double crowned" look of the DOHC first generation Hinckley-built Twins and like what is shown in that commercial.
However, I WILL agree with JamesBrown here. That IS one creepy lookin' "thing", alright!
(...and besides here Paul, after all these many years around here, YOU should know I'M ALWAYS RIGHT...and thus the VERY damn reason I don't even bother goin' to that freakin' "Cone of Silence" forum around here anymore...I got tired of PROVING to all of those who STILL frequent that freakin' forum just HOW right I always AM, but WAY too damn often to no AVAIL!!!) 
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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Dang Dwight, youse ain't be dey no mo? Tin foil hat me came back here just to say hi to ya too! Love ya brah! (Insert big heart emojicon thing here.)
06 in Mulberry. AI, Dunstalls, Nology coils, TTP
Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.
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