grandpaul
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There's just too much to re-enter all the different threads about my ongoing "triple play".
I'll start with this- my faithful, but tired (25K miles) 2000 Triumph Legend 900 TT triple that I got in trade for a hot-rod '78 Bonneville, way back in 2003. I added a Shoei quarter fairing with the hand protection "wings" a la Philippine cop bike. My older brother dumped it on the right side, my ex-son-in-law dumped it on the left side, and I slid it down the salt at Bonneville when a brainless twit pulled out into pit lane from between two trucks without looking both ways. I only wash it every third year, and I never detail the nooks & crannies, so it was decidedly filthy. (note muffler rash, fairing rash is harder to see)
Just over a year ago I broke the tail light loading the bike into a trailer with 2 others, so I found a guy parting out my bike's near twin, and bought the very low miles tail light. He mentioned he'd sell the rest of the rolling bike (sans meters, gas tank, seat, bars & controls, front disc, mufflers, monoshock, carbs and tail light, for $200. Well, you can guess what happened next. Soon it would be referred to as the "ThunderLegend"...
I started planning the parts swap when it hit me - all I needed was a few more parts and I'd have a SECOND Legend! Lo and behold, there was a parts Thunderbird (similar triple base) only 2 hours away! It had a rough tank & seat, plus a shock, footpegs, and other goodies. The BEST part was, the guy was willing to trade for my spare Kawasaki ZRX1200 engine and an old Yoshimura Honda 900 pipe! (I threw in an old KZ1000 header, too).
Voila - "Donor 2" (or, T-Bird)
(with lots of other parts in too many photos)
So, I ordered all the missing pieces, then got to thinking "Hmmmmm.... I really only need an engine, a set of carbs, and a "few" other things, and I can have a THIRD triple! Oh, Heaven help me...
BAZINGA!
So, here's where you who are still interested can jump ship and follow the "Three-Ring Circus" to it's conclusions, on TriumphRat.Net: Triple Triple Thread
I'll start with this- my faithful, but tired (25K miles) 2000 Triumph Legend 900 TT triple that I got in trade for a hot-rod '78 Bonneville, way back in 2003. I added a Shoei quarter fairing with the hand protection "wings" a la Philippine cop bike. My older brother dumped it on the right side, my ex-son-in-law dumped it on the left side, and I slid it down the salt at Bonneville when a brainless twit pulled out into pit lane from between two trucks without looking both ways. I only wash it every third year, and I never detail the nooks & crannies, so it was decidedly filthy. (note muffler rash, fairing rash is harder to see)
Just over a year ago I broke the tail light loading the bike into a trailer with 2 others, so I found a guy parting out my bike's near twin, and bought the very low miles tail light. He mentioned he'd sell the rest of the rolling bike (sans meters, gas tank, seat, bars & controls, front disc, mufflers, monoshock, carbs and tail light, for $200. Well, you can guess what happened next. Soon it would be referred to as the "ThunderLegend"...
I started planning the parts swap when it hit me - all I needed was a few more parts and I'd have a SECOND Legend! Lo and behold, there was a parts Thunderbird (similar triple base) only 2 hours away! It had a rough tank & seat, plus a shock, footpegs, and other goodies. The BEST part was, the guy was willing to trade for my spare Kawasaki ZRX1200 engine and an old Yoshimura Honda 900 pipe! (I threw in an old KZ1000 header, too).
Voila - "Donor 2" (or, T-Bird)
(with lots of other parts in too many photos)
So, I ordered all the missing pieces, then got to thinking "Hmmmmm.... I really only need an engine, a set of carbs, and a "few" other things, and I can have a THIRD triple! Oh, Heaven help me...
BAZINGA!
So, here's where you who are still interested can jump ship and follow the "Three-Ring Circus" to it's conclusions, on TriumphRat.Net: Triple Triple Thread
