Well I have, in the space of a couple of months, acquired a 2001 790cc Bonnie, a 2014 T100 Bonnie, a Black 2002 Gen2 Sprint RS and a Strontium yellow 2002 Gen2 Sprint RS. The first one was the Black Sprint RS. I had been away from bikes for many years but was intending to come back with something very nice and new, preferably from Triumph and I saw this sprint for sale nearby and was cheap enough that, if I binned it, I wouldn't cry too hard over the loss. Well I loved that bike from the first run and so it's a keeper. I recently bought the Strontium yellow one (an MOT failure spares/repairs job) as a donor bike to keep the black one running but I am now unwilling to break her as all she failed her MOT on is fork seals (or maybe forks, not inspected them closely yet), a rear disc. The chain and sprockets are about done in and I stole her tyres for my black one so, all in there isn't really much that would need done to her to get her back on the road. The sprints are great rip roaring fun and I love the engine note and handling. The 'be all and end all' for me though are the Bonnie's. Right from the get go I thought that the original Bonnie's are what a Motorcycle should look like but I never had the money in the past to own one. With the money in hand this year I wanted a Bonnie but my head was turned by the cafe racer looks of the Thruxton. I went to the Triumph dealers, sat on the Thruxton and felt like I was perched on a space hopper or one of those Sumo bikes. Much hunting later I settled on a 2014 Cream and Gold T100 sight unseen with under 3000 miles on the clocks and immaculate but lusted after a green Bonnie and also couldn't shake the desire for one actually put together by British workers in a British factory and so, by a strange series of events I ended up with absolutely the most perfect 2001 Green, silver and union jack bedecked bike that will now never leave my ownership no matter what happens. Yes I love the Sprint RS's, I love the fact that they accelerate as fast as you can twist the throttle and that 955cc fuel injected engine roars through the Delkevic can like some sort of seriously pissed off demon but it doesn't like to 'pootle' or do anything less than 70mph and grumbles like an annoying teenager when made to slow down plus my six foot three 20+ stone frame is literally jammed into the saddle. Extremely fun but tiring and not terribly comfortable. The Bonnies on the other hand are absolutely bloody marvellous! I plonk myself comfortably on the saddle, everything is right where I need it to be and I can just roar off with the greatest of ease. Yes if you screw them up much past seventy then it can get rather interesting and 100+ can be terrifying on a bumpy road with the bike hopping all over the place but they are absolutely not boring. I was initially worried that I would be too big for them and maybe I am from the view of a bystander but I feel like the saddles of Bonnies is where I'm meant to be. The looks are beautiful as well. I get off, step away and think "Jeez that beauty is bloody well all mine!"
Ah well, sadly i've run out of steam now or, at least, money and space. I am waiting on a fellow to put up a shed but I will only have space in it for four or possibly five bikes. I am still on the hunt for an off-road scrambler but that will be absolutely the limit of the current finances.
Have a word with this chap https://www.ross-shirejournal.co.uk/news/missing-man-is-safe-say-police-207250/ I reckon he’s been grounded!
Had my '95 Trident 900 from new - still got it. Also had an '02 Daytona 955i Centennial - again bought new but had to sell it in 2014 due to ill health. Cracking piece of kit that out performed me in every department, but it was fun to try to keep up to it! The added bonus is that I've lived to tell the tale. (Prior to them, I have had a 1960 5TA Speed Twin, a '69 Bonneville, two 1970s Triumph 2000s and a Triumph Acclaim).
Mr. Sandi's and my ride buddies often have conversation about going into a partnership on what we in the U.S. call a "pole barn" where we can all store all of our toys including (more!!) motorcycles.
We have something similar over here. We call them 'barns'. You could get a lot of bikes in there! Security would be my first concern.
But open ventilated types are called Dutch barns......otherwise we’d have some very draughty barn conversions for houses.
Why "pole" barn? - Please tell me it's because they are commonly used for secret meetings of erotic pole dancing ladies
Supposedly some do it for exercise ...what's that all about? Unless you were thinking of Polish ladies dancing?
Well, I guess you could have pole dancing ladies dancing in pole barns--or Polish dancing ladies. But it's not a requirement. You can also store lots of "toys" in pole barns. And there are ways to secure them, too, Octoberon.
I have loved Triumphs since I was a grubby faced lil kid , finally getting my first one after 25 years of Yamaha's 15 years ago and I still have it . It left the factory as a Sprint RS as my regular pillion preferred the Sprint pillion perch to that of the Speed triple . Now it has slowly evolved into a Sprint triple as I prefer naked bikes .