Don’t tell my Mother! but I happened upon this bike exhibit at a highway services and it really got me interested.
Is this a good deal? I know nothing about motorbikes (never even ridden one) but 12k for an immaculate, beautiful looking British icon seems cheap. Would it be a good bike to buy and take lessons on?
Isn’t there an engine size / power output restriction for learners?
Damn, seems you are right 
I have to ride a smaller cc one for two years before I am allowed to buy something bigger. I did once own a twist-n-go 125cc scooter and so have the A1 category on my licence after doing the course. However this bike has a clutch and gears so I have to hold a -A category first.
I wouldn’t be seen dead on that! So I guess I’d have to take lessons and pass on a school bike, cool my heels for two years and then apply for a bigger bike licence. Seems like an unnecessary waste of time, my mid-life crisis may be over by then.
Ah, an oil leak with a motorbike around it.
Yes but… its a Triumph!
I’m not sure but I think that is not the case anymore. It was when I started riding a bike.
But now afaIk people who get the car liscence get the 125cc bike one for free, meaning along with it.
Don’t take my word but you should check that. Don’t you already have the 125cc in your liscence?
yeah, well, that generally seems to be a British thing >
77 PS FFS! A Renault Twingo has less power than that. So, excellent choice 
Just take lessons first!
“A liter of oil for my old english lady please!”
“Do you want it in the engine first, or should we pour it directly underneath?!”
I had a colleague who was a bike rider with many years experience who bought one but did not keep it long, it was just too quick.
0-100 kmh in under 4 seconds, he swopped it for a Harley.
Ah the Harleys, they do the best they can.
By the way… whats the difference between a Harley and a Hemorrhoid?
Non, the older you get the more you are in danger off getting one.
(that is the polite version of the joke)
It’s interesting how both Harleys and Hueys make an iconic ‘chop-chop’ sound, striking terror in the hearts of the Viet Cong and non Harley riders.
But here in Switzerland you got to wear a helmet. Defeats the whole image of having a Triumph.
That is why both are called „Teppichklopfer“ carpet beaters
In them days you didn’t in Switzerland either! Fake news.
I must say, Richard Gere gained by getting older 
No, no and no.
Terrible choice, but typical of the style that is popular with, err, ‘gentlemen of a certain age’. AKA born-again bikers.
Seriously, learn to ride a small bike, Not only will it be much easier but you’ll also get much more of a feel for how vulnerable you are on a motorbike. One of the problems with people starting to ride on this sort of image-lead bike in mid-late life is that they think they can treat it like a car, that they have plenty of road experience, that it’s really not that different. It is.
I still refer to them a Hardly Ablesons.
…have not heard that one before…! 
