Gary
Member
True story. My wife recently hired a couple of local handymen to do some maintenance/repair work to our wooden deck. They were working on it today when I went home at lunch to check on my wife who had minor surgery Monday.
Anyway, these guys are a little older than me (which makes them really old) and they had made a bet with each other on what year model was my Triumph Bonneville T100. They agreed it was a 60's something, but older guy had bet the slightly younger one that it was a pre-1965 and the younger guy said it was a '66-69 model. I had to show them the manufacturer's tag on the frame to get them to believe it was a 2003.
Next came the "how comes", such as how come it has '60's mufflers (Togas) and how come it has the '60s eggcrate badges, etc.
Then finally, the "I used to know a's", such as I used to know a guy with a Bonneville who hit a truck and lost both his legs. To which I responded, "Well in 1969 I ran into a barbed wire fence that took my head clean off, but that wire broke off, then snapped back and threw my head back into place on my neck and wrapped it all back together well enough so that I could ride on to a hospital." I learned long ago that when the BS stories started the only way to stop them was to go for the ultimate.
But one of the guys swears that there is an really old guy (I guess that means over 85) that lives less than two miles from me with a '63 to '64 Bonneville that he fully restored in his bedroom and it still sits completed in his bedroom. That one I am going to verify. Wish me luck!
Anyway, these guys are a little older than me (which makes them really old) and they had made a bet with each other on what year model was my Triumph Bonneville T100. They agreed it was a 60's something, but older guy had bet the slightly younger one that it was a pre-1965 and the younger guy said it was a '66-69 model. I had to show them the manufacturer's tag on the frame to get them to believe it was a 2003.
Next came the "how comes", such as how come it has '60's mufflers (Togas) and how come it has the '60s eggcrate badges, etc.
Then finally, the "I used to know a's", such as I used to know a guy with a Bonneville who hit a truck and lost both his legs. To which I responded, "Well in 1969 I ran into a barbed wire fence that took my head clean off, but that wire broke off, then snapped back and threw my head back into place on my neck and wrapped it all back together well enough so that I could ride on to a hospital." I learned long ago that when the BS stories started the only way to stop them was to go for the ultimate.
But one of the guys swears that there is an really old guy (I guess that means over 85) that lives less than two miles from me with a '63 to '64 Bonneville that he fully restored in his bedroom and it still sits completed in his bedroom. That one I am going to verify. Wish me luck!
