Best Bonneville Ever?

[CarlS]

Danger Dave and Peter Jenks, both active, NTBF members tested the new Bonneville SE. Peter, who is Brit, is a mechanical engineer and had is own Bonneville after market parts business, Jenk's Bolts until he recently sold it. Danger Dave, also known as Big Dave, in New Zealand and Australia, is a writer and often tests motorcycles and does adventure rides for various magazines . Dave and Peter are motorcycle enthusiasts and excellent, experienced riders. The link to Peter's article is below. Don't forget to vote in the poll for your favorite Bonnie.

http://www.kiwirider.co.nz/jenkse/jenkse.html

 

[Dilligaf]

I did not know Peter sold Jenks Bolts.

Good job Triumph, now equip the bikes with decent suspension.

 

[CarlS]

Alas, they did not improve the suspension. I think Peter sold to the same company that bought Moto Twin. He still has his custom Thruxton.

 

[dazco]

I keep reading great things about the new EFI twins. I'll be demoing the new EFI speedy when i go to see the Tbird at the end of the month. If it's as good as they say and i feel it has better power than my piped and airbox modded speedy, then i figure with pipes and box mods if i can get it mapped for that, i may be more likely to replace my speedy with a speedy than Tbird. I may be financially unable to afford the bird anyway, but if i can get considerably more out of the EFI speedy i'll be pretty happy with the power. I talked to a salesman at a dealer the other day and he'd ridden both carb and EFI speedys and was quite impressed with the difference. Anyways, i can't wait to see how it feels.

 

[DaveM]

Good article thanks for posting it and I did vote on the 69 :y114:

Dale I will be very interested in hear your take on the new Speedy as for me the Tbird is out of the question :y18:

 

[dazco]

Well, you know you'll surely hear about it. :ya2: I will be a real confusing moment if the Tbird looks as good as people are saying AND the speedy runs as great as they are saying. If only i could afford both !

 

[Geoff587]

Good article, thanks for posting, voted for the 63 .

 

[Rocky]

Well.....of course there is no question....the best Bonneville ever is the one that I own :ya2:

 

[Geoff587]

[quote author=Rocky link=topic=4994.msg28739#msg28739 date=1239028844]
Well.....of course there is no question....the best Bonneville ever is the one that I own :ya2:
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If they had Rocky,s Bonnie as an option I would have voted for it :y115:

 

[CarlS]

I almost voted for the 03 since we own two; but I voted for the classic 1969.