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Photo by Danielle Murdoch, riding to Uganda - Kenya border

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I just bought a Bonneville

Just paid a deposit on a 110th anniversary edition Triumph Bonneville T100.


If your into classic looking bikes check this video out BONNEVILLE T100 110TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION - YouTube
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Nice bike!

Congratulations. It's as cool looking now as it was 50 years ago. Classic lines never go out of style.

Have fun!

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I have a T100 they are fantastic except my rims started to rust after only 6mths.
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Nice one. Had mine 8 years and no intention of selling it, just keep putting petrol in and buying tyres.

Stuff the looks though, these are for riding. The polishers at the owners club are just there to keep us in cheap spares! If you need a reccomendation on snow tyres I can help though!

Not sure if it will worry you in your climate, but blather the main earthwire to frame connection down on the gearbox and the coil connections (up by the headstock) in grease sometime in the first year. They are not really any sort of weak point until you introduce salted roads but for the time it takes could be worth it.

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I have a T100 they are fantastic except my rims started to rust after only 6mths.
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I read about a couple of guys on the triumphrat forum with that problem
but there were quite a few suggestions to fix/prevent it
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Nice one. Had mine 8 years and no intention of selling it, just keep putting petrol in and buying tyres.

Stuff the looks though, these are for riding. The polishers at the owners club are just there to keep us in cheap spares! If you need a reccomendation on snow tyres I can help though!

Not sure if it will worry you in your climate, but blather the main earthwire to frame connection down on the gearbox and the coil connections (up by the headstock) in grease sometime in the first year. They are not really any sort of weak point until you introduce salted roads but for the time it takes could be worth it.

Andy
Thanks but we don't salt the roads here. Not a lot of snow except in the aptly named snowy mountains but I'm unlikely to get up there out of summer.
Thanks for the tip anyway
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2006 Bonnie - last of the carby models
I have had this baby since new........just can't part with it or stop tinckering with it.

That T100 anniversary edition job looks flash man !!!!
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Great Bike.
we just sold our Triumph Scrambler at the weekend, sad to see it go but it should get us a few more months out on the road.
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