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In the voice of Obi-Won:
Those aren't the sites you looking for.
You'll be coming here now.
Move along.
Do, or do not...There is no try.'- Master Yoda
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Triumph made my bike. This site made it what it is.
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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.
Let's hope there's intelligent life somewhere in space 'cause it's buggar all down here. -- Monte Python
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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 
Erwin
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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"
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You've wasted enough time with all those other bikes and websites.
It's time to get real.
Bonnevilleamerica.com
Do, or do not...There is no try.'- Master Yoda
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What attitude?
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Do, or do not...There is no try.'- Master Yoda
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Great Bikes
Great Times
Great people
Bonnevilleamerica.com
Do, or do not...There is no try.'- Master Yoda
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I thought I was directed somewhere else, it'd been so long. Very nice front page. Feels kinda like welcome home.
06 in Mulberry. AI, Dunstalls, Nology coils, TTP
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Really enjoy the site. Keep up the great work!
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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Added a dozen or so more quotes. Posting this to remind myself where I left off...
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Lots of good info, good people, and great friends (Oh, and Dwight too  )
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A whole bunch of people "going their own way", except in a group. Huh?
2004 Triumph Speedmaster (J Lo) 2006 Yamaha Stratoliner (Adele)
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Life Events/Milestones:
1. call my family
2. email to my friends
3. post to bonnevilleamerica.com
4. notify the office
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there are no strangers on this site, only friends I haven't met yet 
Always remember to be yourself. Unless you suck. Then pretend to be someone else.
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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.
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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.
Thom
I might be wrong, I sometimes am.
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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.
...you're gonna feel a little pressure....
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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
2007 Speedmaster and miss it!
2013 T-Bird Storm and Luvin it!
Catching a yellow jacket in your shirt at 70 mph can double your vocabulary
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This site is why the internet was invented
Too old to die young, too ugly to leave a good looking corpse
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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". Quote:
"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"
Ray(UK)
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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!
2007 Speedmaster and miss it!
2013 T-Bird Storm and Luvin it!
Catching a yellow jacket in your shirt at 70 mph can double your vocabulary
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I was all over it like a hobo on a ham sandwich. 
07 SPEEDMASTER ..SLASHCUT BUBS..
NOLOGY COILS/WIRES ..PHANTOM BLACK ..CHROME COVERS...K&N PODS..
BEAUTIFULL WHEN SHE RUNS RIGHT..SHE WAS ..
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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!! 
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I'd rather ride it than clean it!!!!
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Kevin Molloy R.I.P. back in 2004 wrote as a member on the Massachusetts Chapter of the British Iron Association's website: Quote:
...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
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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.
Karl
Independence, MO
'07 America, Cinnamon Girl (aka: Black Beauty) - Sit Down, Shut Up & Hang On
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well, to paraphrase the old NHRA radio spots:
ANYDAY, ANYDAY, ANYDAY, BA.COM, BE THERE!!!!!!!!!
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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.
2005 Green America
Fishtail Exhaust, Whitewalls, ISO Grips, Light bar with Relo Turnsignals
"...To them, I'm just a screaming ball of noise."
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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
2012 America
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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.
Arsenalfan. AKA Mark Able
Seller of fine automobiles.
Jaguar, Land Rover, Porsche of Chattanooga
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"helpful yet irreverent, BA.C frequently has me spewing beer out my nose."
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Hey FJ, I only know you rocked BA.com.
Ridin' and playin' 'til I can't.
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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! Quote:
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.
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Outstanding, helpful people here.
Enough said.
2011 Triumph America (10/2011 to 07/2014)
2012 Harley Davidson 1200C Sportster
2014 Harley Davidson Dyna Wide Glide
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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.
2007 Speedmaster and miss it!
2013 T-Bird Storm and Luvin it!
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Quote:
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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Quote:
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.
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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.
Road Rash Heals. Freckles Grow Back. Ride
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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...
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Indeed.. 
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