Lounge Lizard
Old Wrinkly
Reged: 17/01/2004
Posts: 17885
Loc: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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There will be a big bash on July 4th - 6th 2008 at Butlins Minehead if anybody wants to see hundreds of big Harleys dressed to the nines.
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Lounge Lizard
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
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Fen
BAD WOLF
Reged: 12/03/2002
Posts: 20926
Loc: Currently Unknown!
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Nah, 'orrible bikes.
Give me a Triumph anyday
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TheFatControlleR
L'éminence Grise, Devil's Advocate & AP Fanboy!
Reged: 24/04/2001
Posts: 11654
Loc: Not here, it's rubbish...
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Nah, 'orrible bikes.
Two words Fat Boy!! 
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TheFatControlleR
And so, my fellow Benchists: ask not what your bench can do for you - ask what you can do for your bench... Ben Chism
Live fat, die young, and leave a self-basting corpse...
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Lounge Lizard
Old Wrinkly
Reged: 17/01/2004
Posts: 17885
Loc: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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Nah, 'orrible bikes.
Two words Fat Boy!!
Do you mean one of these:
I much prefer these instead:
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Lounge Lizard
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
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TheFatControlleR
L'éminence Grise, Devil's Advocate & AP Fanboy!
Reged: 24/04/2001
Posts: 11654
Loc: Not here, it's rubbish...
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Oh yes. I love the look of the other and would prefer it, naturally, but it's a tad impractical for me (belly/tank interface ). I prefer a more 'sit-up-and-beg' attitude.
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TheFatControlleR
And so, my fellow Benchists: ask not what your bench can do for you - ask what you can do for your bench... Ben Chism
Live fat, die young, and leave a self-basting corpse...
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Lounge Lizard
Old Wrinkly
Reged: 17/01/2004
Posts: 17885
Loc: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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Well, the new Harley this year may be up your street. More an upright streetfighter with less of the cruiser look:
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Lounge Lizard
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
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NorthernNikon
Bulls Hitter
Reged: 16/12/2005
Posts: 6174
Loc: Harrogate, North Yorks
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Nah, 'orrible bikes.
Give me a Triumph anyday
I'm with you Fen, ideally a Speed Triple, but if you're going to out muscle a Harley, you might as well go the whole HOG (Geddit? )
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gollum
enthusiast
Reged: 18/12/2007
Posts: 291
Loc: Kent
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Ah yes the Triumph, Japanese engineering at its best...lol....not that i'm bias of course 
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People too weak to follow their own dreams, will always find a way to discourage yours
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22119200@N08/page1/
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Fen
BAD WOLF
Reged: 12/03/2002
Posts: 20926
Loc: Currently Unknown!
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Ah yes the Triumph, Japanese engineering at its best...lol....not that i'm bias of course
Made in Hinckley, Leicestershire.
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gollum
enthusiast
Reged: 18/12/2007
Posts: 291
Loc: Kent
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Ah yes the Triumph, Japanese engineering at its best...lol....not that i'm bias of course
Made in Hinckley, Leicestershire.
Ah the rebirth of Triumph, engineered by Kawasaki in Japan...lol
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People too weak to follow their own dreams, will always find a way to discourage yours
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22119200@N08/page1/
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Zou
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 05/02/2007
Posts: 2117
Loc: Edinburgh
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Well, the new Harley this year may be up your street. More an upright streetfighter with less of the cruiser look:
Looks better, but does it still sound like spare change being rattled in a beggar's cup? 
And do they come with brakes these days? 
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gollum
enthusiast
Reged: 18/12/2007
Posts: 291
Loc: Kent
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Its a Harley, its supposed to sound like that
........and no ya still have to put ya feet on the road to help...lol
Still wouldn't change mine for anything! 
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People too weak to follow their own dreams, will always find a way to discourage yours
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22119200@N08/page1/
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Nod
Carpal \'Tunnel
Reged: 08/04/2006
Posts: 4333
Loc: Devon, UK.
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Heard one of those fore'n'aft Trumps a while back - sounded like a Massey Fergusson missing on one cylinder!
Rode a '24 Harley for a couple of years - much like Trigger's broom though... had a '79 (Shovel) engine (taken out to 88 ci) and the '24 headstock (including the frame number...) had been grafted onto a '78 frame (dropped 2" with VERY wideglide 'tripple trees' and 2" under forks). Handled like a sack of xxxx but went like xxxx off a shiny shovel! Any readers of BSH in the early '90s might have seen it featured as "Big Fat F'koff HOG".
There's a good reason for HD riders to have that sh*t eatin' grin - let the grin drop and your fillings get shaken out!!!
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velocette
Bard Of The Boudoir
Reged: 10/08/2006
Posts: 279
Loc: North Surrey
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Never owned one myself but I did have a very pleasant test ride on a Sporster a couple of years ago from Surrey HD. Almost persuaded the ‘management’ that that was just what she wanted me to have but before I jumped they closed the shop down. Got a friend with a Buell which is an amazing thing to ride as it’s like a 1 litre 125 the wheelbase is so short. Goes, brakes and turns like a mad thing but you still get the full Harley experience, bits fall off and it’s totally impractical. Well to a BMW owner anyway.
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