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I had dreamed of it .. and I found it !!
Nostalgia for the sixties, I had long wanted to transform a Bonnie into a nice cafe racer but I really did not have the means to entrust the operation to the preparers who had established themselves on the street. For everyone like me I think only the Triumph Thruxton can make this dream come true. A quick test later, I’m convinced. As soon as you get on the machine, all your youth comes back ….
In fact this bike should not be tried, you have to remember ….
First of all you need the outfit that goes well…. a Cromwell or for want of the myth take a jet with a "full face" screen like Percy Tait and later Jack Findlay…. the jeans that go well, the Perfecto with the pins, the construction pumps…. in the extreme, we can make only one concession to the third millennium: the cell phone !! and off we go for the pre and post sixty-eight walks…. The Corniche des Cevennes, where the Tonio is embossed with its Puch, the Col du Redarès .. you remember it straight with the Side Terrot…. The bumps before St Hippolyte .. Damn, that sheet with the Bonnie !!
You are going to tell me, he is delirious the ancestor, soon he will turn senile dementia .. we will find him one of these four on the side of the road in a nightgown doing vroum vroum with a funnel on the cigar !!! Maybe, but before that I will have had a few more small pleasures that I would not have even imagined even a couple of years ago ….
Today, in this period when repression is looming over us, what good can a supercharged bomb be on the road … just to deliver a pink paper to the prefect who waits for it like the tenant of the 4th district has his pizza from Hunt !! Even if you risk being outlawed with a Thruxton … and more often than you think … with this kind of device we can at least benefit from mitigating circumstances…. Understand, agent .. it’s so nice the wind on your face above 100 per hour !!
Back to what concerns us .. testing the gear…. In fact it’s a retro bike with reliable mechanics. and there is nothing more to say…. There are some, and not the least, who have criticized this bike .. the absence of a reserve witness .. surely that their osteoarthritis prevented them from bending down to turn the tap half a turn…. also missing a warning .. why not a GPS too .. if you are in a carafe, you take care of…. and wait for the next bike who will want to stop smoking your cigarette !!
The brelle under the conditions of the test absolutely does not reveal its capabilities .. because this tool, it is impossible for any buyer to leave it as it is at the start .. Instantly the noise and pollution standards will be put away…. such beautiful pots, and such a bland noise .. not possible, we are going to review it like the Roaring Twenties !! All in delicacy for lovers .. at the mine bar for the rebels, in any case the result will be the same !! The two carbs also need a vitamin cure .. The Dynojet – K&N recipe seems to me to be a good compromise .. to be there, although the handling, compared to that of the bones with which we pulled the fluff at the time is of a GP level will be able without difficulty even more improved with the shock absorbers which push to the crime and especially a setting adapted to each way of driving. Possibility which is to be retained taking into account the possibilities offered by origin on the machine. The ground clearance, without commensurate with that of an original Bonnie which happily files footrests and pots as soon as it turns a little will strengthen the sporting side and encourage – if necessary – to abandon the main axes for the small country roads .. The comfort of the passenger, which passenger? This brelle you will only accept your chick there to take her around the block before taking her to a place much more suitable for evaluating her performance (the chick, not the brelle !!)
In fact you will understand that this motorcycle is an alternative to the little blue pill, a certain way of going back thirty years, the last little pleasure that grandpa booms can have…. Whether young people will feel invested with the desire to plunge back into a past that they have only known through DVDs is a marketing affair, but believe me, I remain convinced that many will find in the Thruxton a choice adapted to automatic cabins which flourish more and more at the edge of the roads. The new style Bonnie was a daring bet that won Triumph, the Thruxton further concretizes this success .. and the icing on the pudding .. with this new generation bike…. I will no longer need to disgust my garage with a few kilos of sawdust. What more could you ask for ?
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