I'm looking forward to being a part of this forum. If the photos in Feanor's short Tour de France are any guide, I'll be spending a lot of time on the forum dreaming and planning! Anyway, I have a 2010 Bonneville SE and a 1967 Bultaco Metralla (250 cc single cylinder two stroke road machine) which I've owned since I was 19. I completed a two year long restoration of it in October 2012. The two bikes are so different that it's a pleasure to ride them both. I love looking at the two of them side-by-side in the garage. I use the Bulty for monthly classic bike club runs and the Bonnie for 'real' rides and trips.
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Hello Buck R and welcome to TriumphTalk
Please try and keep this thread as your introduction thread. If you have any bike related questions please post them in the appropriate forum area as you will get a better response from all.
We also run a monthly photo competition so you may want to have a look at this as it is great fun all round Forum: Photo Competition
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and the Bonn.
Wwelcome to TT from Southeast Texas. You do know you need to post up some photos of that Metralla. . . right? 
HOWDY and 
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Hey Buck to the forum, photos are in order mate 
to the forum, photos are in order mate 
Gidday,and welcome from nz
Buck, welcome to the forum from Florida, USA. You have two great rides. Congrats on the restoration. We would love to see pics of both bikes.
Very nice. 
Us older riders started with right foot change.
I've got a Norton that has right foot up to first and a Triumph that's right foot down for first and like most left foot bikes also.
Every time I ride I walk up to the bike and LOOK at the gear change then program that ride, never get it wrong.
Back in the 70's I'd race a left foot bike and jump onto a right foot bike in the very next race.
Now ask me how to use a computer and I'm as thick as a brick.
Wow it is still in as new condition well done for keeping it in such great shape
It had been so long since I had seen one in person I about forgot how sweet they looked. That's one beautiful scooter you have there.
I have very little problem hopping on my '68 TR6; as Kevin said, most of us grew up riding bikes with right foot gear shift. I do have to think about it at first when get back on my Tiger or Bonnie.
Hello and welcome to TT from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA! 
We had a Bultaco dealer close to my home back in the'60s, but all I remember were their excellent dirt bikes. Cool to see a street machine I never saw before!
We had a Bultaco dealer close to my home back in the'60s, but all I remember were their excellent dirt bikes. Cool to see a street machine I never saw before!
All the ones I ever remember seeing were also dirt bikes
The only one I ever saw was in 1971 - 1973 time frame owned by a man down the road from me in Dallas, he had an Ossa he raced and the Metralla was his street bike. He was in the area for a temporary assignment and once it was completed he moved back to to some small town outside of Barcelona but for the life of me I can't remember the name of the town. I'm not even sure if they sold them around the Dallas area because he said he brought them with him. You know, come to think of it, I believe his Ossa was the only one I've ever seen up close.
