Hi all, I'm Marty and, at a few days over 48 years old I am about three weeks back at biking after about sixteen years without a bike due to not having any cash and then having to dedicate any cash I had to the family. Having found myself finally with enough cash and all the kids grown up and gone I have started back by picking up a 2002 Triumph Sprint 955i RS which is a bit tatty round the edges but roars like a maniac giving me a huge grin. Once I have got my eye in and feel like I have thoroughly got to grips with two wheels again I am planning to get a new Triumph although I still want to keep the sprint and do her up if I can find a cheap donor for spares. I am thinking about one of the 'classics' but can't make up my mind and a little disappointed at the lack of colour choices in the current line-up being as I am a bit of a flash git who likes bright greens, purples, turquoises and that sort of thing. Always adored Triumphs ever since I first saw bikes as a little nipper. Anyway I shall now browse the forum and try to make up for a decade and a half of not being in the motorcycling and Triumph loop.
Hi Marty, and welcome in Just keep saving and go for a custom paint job when you're ready for your new bike
Welcome Marty from another newbie in the wilds of Yorkshire. Quite a choice of Classic models to choose from but you're right, they seem to be in "classic" colours rather than the glitzy offerings of modern stuff which I think suits them personally. Enjoy the 955.
Hi Marty. Welcome. I can relate. I spent most of my life providing for a family of six. They have all gone thier own way now and pretty much ignore me. Just me and the wife now. Lots of years of not having the money to do the things I wanted to. I have 3 old Triumphs, but they suit me. I am old too. If I keep going like this I'll be 75 this fall. Ride safe out there and enjoy the sunshine. ...J.D.
Thanks @Wire-Wheels, in my younger days, before acquiring a family, I was always skint and working poorly paid dead end jobs much of the time so my motorcycling history was always on very long in the tooth, barely hanging together Jap machines. The peak of my machinery ownership was a Suzuki GSX750ES which was ten years old when I bought it. The Sprint RS is night and day compared with the bikes I used to ride even if it's eighteen years old! The triple cylinder is unlike anything I have ever ridden before for sound and feel but it real doesn't seem to like 'puttering along' at all. It just feels like it's out for 'Aggro' from the moment it fires up. Thinking back to times when I got a shot on friends Yam R1's and Honda Fireblades they didn't have anything like the raw, aggressive feel the big triple has. Still in love with the look of Bonneville's though and that styling, coupled with all the mod cons makes me want a modern Bonnie for when I don't want to rip roar around.
Just out for a 'wee spin' today. Thought 'I'm gonna just go up Hell's Glen, round to the Rest and Be Thankful and back in to my home via Glen Mor', got to the end of the Hell's Glen road and thought, I'll just nip down to Saint Catherine's instead. Got to Saint Catherine's and thought, actually I'll just nip along to Strachur, got to Strachur and thought 'I'll just go a wee bit down the Glendaruel road' almost at Glendaruel I thought Hmmm..... better get back home before the wife starts to think I've gone AWOL
Shhh! Do not be telling the uninitiated the secrets of your neck of the woods. Fortunately the photo betrays neither roads nor scenery.