Getting The Right Insurance

Try Carole Nash. I use them for my bike.
Joe.

 

Most definitely a t100 865
Joe.

 

Rev clock was an option but not fitted.
Joe

 

May well have been released early.
Joe.

 

DH88UK
Welcome to the Family. Carole Nash are usually good. When you get your renewals ask them to cancel and start a new policy as they have a habit of adding a couple hundred pounds on the policy. Triumph also do their own version of the insurance if you receive grief in the future. But for now enjoy.
Ride Safe
Joe.

 

Changed out the tyres on my 2007 Speedmaster when I bought it last year.

Date code showed tyres were made in 2005!
New Avon's made an immediate improvement.

 

It would be a trip to the tyre dealers for me.

 

Jesus; people bitch about oil being 2 yrs/600mls old and then justify not buying a safety item like tyres "a bit hard and few cracks"
Throw them feckers in the bin and buy new ones NOW!!

 

Well Done;
you now need to start a Tyre thread

 

We could call it a Tyre Tread Thread.

 

Looks like a T100 865 EFI mines the same lookalike carb bodys and with later side panels

 

Im running those AM Roadriders quite liking them fort the price

 

Interesting saga. Based on my own research online and a very good book on Bonneville's by a Motorcycle historian called Ian Falloon, I am sure your bike is indeed a 2007 Bonneville in Goodwood Green.

Just a wee note on the history of the Bonneville.... The T100 labelling was originally created specifically for the Lucifer Orange and Silver 100th anniversary model issued in 2002 (that's what the hundred means in the name) but, after that it was used to denote a 'premium edition' which amounted to, as previously mentioned, added Tachometer, Knee pads and polished casings. The two tone paint doesn't necessarily denote a T100 as the first year Standard Bonneville came in Green and Silver and Red and Silver and, in 2002 there was a Sky blue and Silver Bonneville. The bike that was only known as a Bonneville was upgraded to the 865 engine in 2007 and discontinued (I think, though it's not entirely clear) in 2008. The T100 models went to the 865cc engine in 2005 but, otherwise apart from the aforementioned Tacho, Casings and knee pads were essentially still all the same bike. Of course, just to confuse matters, you could add these 'extras' to any Bonneville as well. I have two 2001 Bonnie's that both sport Tacho's and kneepads and one of them has the polished and lacquered engine casings where the other had them, but a previous owner had the lacquer stripped as it wasn't aging well.

Both T100's and Bonneville's were carburetted until 2008 when fuel injection was added. Fuel injection was added to meet Euro III emissions regulations rather than for any performance advantage. It appears that, in 2008, While the UK and European market models got EFI where American and Australian market models were still carburetted as they didn't need to comply with the same regulations but they also got EFI shortly afterwards.
Both the T100 and 'original' Bonneville always had the 19" Front wheel and 17" Rear wheel although, later on in 2016(?) the T100 moved to an 18" front and 17" rear wire wheel although I think they are also tubeless after that date.

The SE(Special Edition) models are a different creature as the chassis was modified for this model to give it more modern handling where the Original Hinckley Bonneville and T100 were based on the steering geometry, dimensions and wheel sizes of the original 1959 Bonneville. Among the changes were the move to 17" alloy wheels front and rear, shorter shock absorbers, upswept megaphone exhausts instead of the peashooters, steeper steering head angle and shorter wheelbase, Tacho and kneepads. I am sure there are more differences but that should do for now.

All this info and a lot more about all the variants of the Bonneville from it's birth in 1959 to the present day can be found in the book 'Triumph Bonneville 60 Years' by Ian Falloon.