Triumph Bobber Has Arrived

Guys, you gotta' work on your attention spans and powers of concentration!

These are meant to help you practice those skills, but, I warn you, they could make matters worse...



My affliction began when I first heard this song by THe Fugs in 1965 at the ripe old age of 12...

 
Phil - You're bringing back memories. I saw The Fugs play in Greenwich Village in 1965. I saw one of their albums in a used music store in Seattle several years ago. Thought about picking it up but it was $50...
 

Phil is so right. He nailed it, but todays manufacturers are marketing experts. The bikes will sell and those that buy them will have d-mn near the same pride as those that designed and built them themselves. The marketers stole the name and the people could care less. They will make the payments and feel cool. It will be a good bike but just another mass produced fake, like a new 32 FORD replica or a new INDIAN CHIEF replica. It won't hold a candle to the new Bonnies with functional suspension or some of the other Triumph models but it oozes COOL to the masses and the other models don't do that. We live in a different world today then when I used to build Bobbers. Today bikers have money, and today everyone wants stuff right now, the marketers know it and satisfy it.
 
Couldn't care less about it. I'm an old codger and I want a Bonneville to look like the new T120....but still have a 360 degree crank and sound like a proper Bonneville...not some half arsed Ducati.
Buying a Bobber off the shelf is not customising.
I know...maybe the hipsters can start a new reverse customising trend. Buy a bobber then reverse engineer it to a stock Bonneville.
Did I mention I'm a grumpy old bald fat guy?
 


HEY! Where'd @BigNorm Go???????? NORM! NORM!
 
They have even already replaced the Metz with an Avon Cobra front for ya!


 
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Officially 100% of their marketing is directed to millennials. I beleive they use the term "new gen 40". Here's why... Millennials surpass Gen Xers as the largest generation in U.S. labor force


It's all about the look for their target audience. They don't buy the bike unless they see a pic of themselves sitting on it first.

GPMAZ said:
The concept seems to be spreading.

This one came first and in the flesh is actually okay. Less pretentious than the Triumph.

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You know once the factories catch on and start producing their own versions of a underground trend it's officially the start of the end.

I can't get past the seat from a tractor look. The Bonneville gas tank does not gel with the rest of the bike. How long can the retro fad continue without becoming a caricature of it's self?

There is no revised or updated Rocket III or Thunderbird coming from Triumph. Their target audience has no desire for those bikes.
 
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