Thread: Bike Porn - Regardless of the motor, Show off your "two wheeled" beasties

Originally Posted by rossi.45

its a funny one when your trying to research a bike like the oil in frame Triumphs on the forums . . people have their favourites and likes and dislikes, i gave up thinking i would get the truth, its all opinion . . time will tell.
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well I am a fan of pretty much all of the classic trumpys and have owned many over the years of varying capacities and models , from the 500's through to a couple of tridents .
The only thing I would think twice about if I were to buy another is I wouldn't get one unless it has a splayed head (carbs pointing out rather than directly rear and parallel to each other ) for the simple reason you cannot change carbs for different versions such as mikuni as there is not enough room between carbs for them to fit . That is generally only an issue with the later model classics though . Had exactly this issue with my harris bonny which ran Amal 1.5 carbs in parallel but the carbs were buggered and no longer available . Could not fit any other carb model due to head not being splayed .
So I phoned the amal company twice a week for six months and finally convinced them to make me a brand new set of carbs !! I think they were sick of the calls and just wanted me out of their lives....lol . But they turned up as promised .....