{"id":1493,"date":"2010-06-10T12:02:45","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T18:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2010-06-10T12:02:45","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T18:02:45","slug":"now-i-see-why-randy-loves-triumphs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/now-i-see-why-randy-loves-triumphs\/","title":{"rendered":"Now I See Why Randy Loves Triumphs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s my friend Randy there in the photo, on his first bike, back when we both had dark hair and more of it. He still has that Triumph Bonneville, although it&#8217;s in pieces stashed in boxes around his house. Today he rides a Bonneville T100.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.motorcyclecolorado.com\/BlogPix\/RandyOnTriumph.jpg\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" alt=\"Randy on his first Bonneville\" \/>So it was Randy who tipped me off that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmwducati.com\/\">Northern Colorado Euro Motorcycles<\/a> would have a truck in from Triumph offering demo rides last weekend. I took a ride to take some rides.<\/p>\n<p>Cutting right to the heart of the matter, I loved <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/examiner\/x-378-Motorcycle-Examiner~y2010m6d10-Triumph-test-rides-The-Modern-Classics\" target=\"_blank\">the Bonnevilles I rode<\/a>. Yeah, I rode two of them. The basic Bonny was the first one I rode and then I rode three cruisers, the America, the Thunderbird, and the Speedmaster, in that order. While I liked the Speedmaster best of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/examiner\/x-378-Motorcycle-Examiner~y2010m6d8-Triumph-test-rides-The-Cruisers\" target=\"_blank\">those three<\/a>, none of them matched the Bonneville, in my opinion, so I rode another Bonneville, the T100 this time, like Randy&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to repeat my discussion of each of these bikes, you can read that on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/examiner\/x-378-Motorcycle-Examiner\" target=\"_blank\">Examiner<\/a>, but I&#8217;m sold on the Bonny. It was light, agile, powerful, and a whole lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the heads-up, Randy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recent from National Motorcycle Examiner<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/examiner\/x-378-Motorcycle-Examiner~y2010m6d10-Triumph-test-rides-The-Modern-Classics\" target=\"_blank\">Triumph test rides: The Modern Classics<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n<p>Aging and still riding is like the talking dog. It does not matter how well the dog talks but rather that the dog talks at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s my friend Randy there in the photo, on his first bike, back when we both had dark hair and more of it. He still has that Triumph Bonneville, although it&#8217;s in pieces stashed in boxes around his house. Today he rides a Bonneville T100. So it was Randy who tipped me off that Northern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,308],"tags":[309],"class_list":["post-1493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bikes","category-triumph","tag-triumph-bonneville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1499,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions\/1499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}