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From: The Older Gentleman on 23 Jan 2010 12:27 Maybe this was reported while I was abroad, so I missed it, but the Times today has a big story in the business section about the triumph of, er, Triumph, which has now nudged Kawasaki into fifth place. And Triumph is now outselling BMW in the US. Time Bloor got a knighthood, I reckon. -- BMW K1100LT Ducati 750SS Honda CB400F Triumph Street Triple Suzuki TS250ER GN250 Damn, back to six bikes! Try Googling before asking a damn silly question. chateau dot murray at idnet dot com
From: platypus on 23 Jan 2010 12:48 "The Older Gentleman" <totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:1jcs8gd.18dpqtm1xdohldN%totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk... > > And Triumph is now outselling BMW in the US. Mong fight. > Time Bloor got a knighthood, I reckon. There's cheaper ways, if he really wanted one.
From: Dr Ivan D. Reid on 23 Jan 2010 13:25 On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:27:58 +0000, The Older Gentleman <totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote in <1jcs8gd.18dpqtm1xdohldN%totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk>: > Maybe this was reported while I was abroad, so I missed it, but the > Times today has a big story in the business section about the triumph > of, er, Triumph, which has now nudged Kawasaki into fifth place. So the copy has supplanted the real thing? > And Triumph is now outselling BMW in the US. > Time Bloor got a knighthood, I reckon. Not before I get a Nobel Prize... -- Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration, Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005 WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon) KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".
From: The Older Gentleman on 23 Jan 2010 13:33 Dr Ivan D. Reid <Ivan.Reid(a)brunel.ac.uk> wrote: > So the copy has supplanted the real thing? Heh. A decade or more, you might have been right, but not these days, you cynic. -- BMW K1100LT Ducati 750SS Honda CB400F Triumph Street Triple Suzuki TS250ER GN250 Damn, back to six bikes! Try Googling before asking a damn silly question. chateau dot murray at idnet dot com
From: Lozzo on 23 Jan 2010 13:43
The Older Gentleman wrote: > Dr Ivan D. Reid <Ivan.Reid(a)brunel.ac.uk> wrote: > > > So the copy has supplanted the real thing? > > Heh. A decade or more, you might have been right, but not these days, > you cynic. Stritchy, formerly of this parish, has a lovely missus. Said lovely missus owned until recently a 1992 Sprint which blew its head gasket about 3 or four years ago. I was asked to pull it apart and fix it up on a very tight budget, which I did; Triumph parts being fairly affordable and easy to acquire. When the head came off I could still see the honing marks on all three cylinder bores, which shocked me because the engine was woefully neglected and rarely serviced, had been sitting out in the open for three years at one point, had over 70,000 miles on it and had been running with a blown head gasket for a while. When it was all back together it started up second press of the button and sounded as sweet as a new one. Those early Hinckley T3 engines are more solidly built than Kawasakis of old imo. -- Lozzo Versys 650 Tourer, CBR600F-W racebike in the making, SR250 SpazzTrakka, TS250C, RD400F (somewhere) Garage clearout - Yamaha SpazzTrakka 250 for sale, email for details |