Roar of the Triton

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Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• bike
• triumph
• norton
• noise
• engine
• sound
• riding

[daneinlondon]

get your facts right dick head.

[polskich]

great to look at but hard to push, and push you have to,like all british bikes they are fragile and unreliable, how did you manage to start it? how far behind was your mate in his van? you could not ride a british bike down to the local shopa without arranging a lift home.

[daneinlondon]

if britains so shite why u here ?

[1234sensei]

Polskich....I'm an English Rocker....why don't you come over to see me & I'll cut your balls off with a blunt knife (if you've got any) & then I'll stuff them down your throat ! After that,I'll fuck you up the arse with a Goldie silencer....or perhaps you'd prefer a Velo fishtail up your arse....CUNT.

[TheReverb1]

...well Im not from England

but my daily ride is a Triumph speed twin from 1948

and for a 60 years old motorcycle

it s does the job pretty good

[MrRowanMess]

@polskich My old man restored a 1967 BSA A65. It starts first time every time. It's broke down once, and that was nothing serious. He's done 5000 miles since restoration. It's been looked after but treated like a modern bike and has topped a ton many times with two people on it. You may not like british bikes, and I'm not a fan of Harleys myself but I don't go around lying about how bad they are.

[1BSARoadRocket]

@polskich When workers went on strike motorcycle production dropped. The few bikes made had to be sent to American dealers. Brits were battling inflation and unemployment so did not have money to buy a Brit bike. Labor problems were not happening in Japan and they work for cheap so they simply glutted the market with their motorcycles, sometimes even selling them below cost just to get them out there. The economics of the times are why the Brits quit buying Brit bikes, its that simple.

[1BSARoadRocket]

@polskich Like you I used to fall for the old tale about Jap reliability being the reason the Brit motorcycle industry failed. Then I took a university level course on British history. By the mid 1950's the UK became an affluent society and this lasted until about 1973 at which time de-industrialization began, meaning the decline of shipbuilding, coal mining, and textile production. Half of all workers were in unions and many unions went on strike. High unemployment and inflation was next.

[1BSARoadRocket]

@polskich I'm an American and I have used a worn out 1950s era Brit 650 for daily transportation and recreation for about 22 years now. What's your problem????? Brit and American buyers were essentially both the same, they were both cheap and jap bikes were very cheap to buy so they bought them. When Brit bikes hit the American market after WW2 there were no Jap bikes as we know them today and the exchange rate made Brit bikes cheap for Americans to buy so they bought lots of them.

[polskich]

@1BSARoadRocket there was a difference between brit a american buyers, yanks bought them as a recreational item as they had deep pockets, brits of the era of working class roots by in large did not have the proverbial pot to piss in and needed a bike for everyday transport as a car was out of the question, thus jap relialbilty won the day

[1BSARoadRocket]

@polskich Americans were the biggest buyer/consumer of Brit bikes. When the workers in the factories went on strike bikes were not being produced so the American dealers often had empty show rooms and desperatly needed something to sell. Many American dealers quit selling Brit bikes simply because they could not get enough to sell! Then in the late 70's the exchange rates made a Triumph so expensive to buy that Americans would not buy them.

[1BSARoadRocket]

@polskich Speaking of rubbish, the first Jap bikes to hit the market were well known for extremly bad handling, and not much in the way of performance but people bought them anyway because the exchange rates for Brits and Americans made them cheap to buy. Japanse people were poor so they had no choice but to work for cheap. Workers in the Brit bike factorys were busy going on strike which was common with Brit labor unions of all professions in the late 60' to early 70's.

[1BSARoadRocket]

@polskich You are consistant with your comments, they all display extreme ignorance and lack of sophistication. If you really knew anything about Brit bikes which you clearly don't you might be able to say something intelligent other than regurgitate popular misguided BS. As somebody who has made the daily commute on a 1950's era Brit 650 for 22 years I will tell you that it is an easy bike to start, usually first kick and the same with every Brit bike I've owned.

[polskich]

@1BSARoadRocket because brit bikes were unreliabe outdated rubbish with engines dating from the 30s and 40s, and in the time it took get one started, if possible, they could have walked to work

[1BSARoadRocket]

@polskich You tell me, now is your chance to share your extensive knowledge.