The Gods Must be Smiling On Me!

A few weeks back Alan an I were discussing how lousy this summer has been and how much it as now costing us too go for a good run out for a day when he announced he was chopping the Fazer for something smaller to cut costs and to be fair I was thinking the same thing with the Bandit. Now don't get me wrong the bandit is a lovely bike and you would be hard pressed to find another anywhere near as clean but I just didn't have any emotional attachment to it at all, it was fine too ride and did everything asked off it but it just left me feeling cold and I just wasn't getting any pleasure from owning it really. So to cut a long story short we thought about getting a pair of z750's and ripping it up like a pair of loons but when we had a close look the newer ones look the biz but the early ones just didn't do it for me and I hate them pressed steel Kawasaki swingarms, there a bloody nightmare trying to adjust your chain properly, so Alan decided he was going to buy a versy and I decided to wait and save my pennies for what I really want and that was a Triumph Bonneville. That's when fate intervened a few weeks later, for we had one in stock at work but it was well out of my league but we had a bit of good fortune and ended up with some spare pennies, now to get the Bonnie at work was going to rely on another piece of good fortune because even with the extra pennies it was still way out of my budget but fortunately my boss did me a cracking deal and it took me right to the limit of my savings but I got her, a one owner from new 2010 mag wheel Bonneville with less than 3k on the clock
Now I had a meridian Bonny years ago and I regret selling it to this day but I have fancied one of the Hinckley ones since they first came out when I saw them in Jack Machin's window in Lincoln years ago, to say I'm stoked with it is an understatement, I could just stand and look at her all day an never get bored so here she is.