The Best Bonnie

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The Best Bonnie

The Best Bonnie 
GGR said 2005-06-22 06:52 
 
This was the bike that made a motorcycle enthusiast out of me.
My only transport for 2 or 3 years. It lived outdoors and soon became rather shabby. It wasn´t reliable: holed 2 pistons, sheared a clutch key, blew rocker box gaskets, ate clutch cables.

It was surprisingly smooth for a traditional British, 360 deg twin and revved freely. It had a great sound through its Dunstall 2 into 1 into 2 exhaust and felt surprisingly sporty with its narrow reversed, ace bars.

A friend had an almost identical (same year I think) T140V, but I preferred my 650.

A series of crashes added to a multitude of characterful scars (on the bike) until the day it decided it had had enough of me; threw me in a ditch and landed on top of me.

Having had my brush with death, lacking the money and will power to repair it I let it go. It was fun while it lasted, but there are far better bikes. 
 
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