....if I were to try and talk about a Hinckley Bonneville
on this forum? Would I be confronted after sundown by a large crowd
of serfs, carls, thralls, villeins and other feudal peasantry
raising a hue and cry and brandishing torches and pitchforks?

After all, the new Bonnie is a modern tribute to a classic.

SQ

Thus spake sean_q ((E-Mail Removed)) unto the assembled multitudes:
> ...if I were to try and talk about a Hinckley Bonneville
> on this forum? Would I be confronted after sundown by a large crowd
> of serfs, carls, thralls, villeins and other feudal peasantry
> raising a hue and cry and brandishing torches and pitchforks?

> After all, the new Bonnie is a modern tribute to a classic.

As I own a 17-yr-old Hinckley Trident I like to hear about other Hinckley
bikes, though the majority here may consider the newer ones OT for this
group. It would be fun to hear comparisons between the Meriden and Hinckley
Bonnies. I did consider buying a HB myself but I decided it's a just a bit
*too* retro for my liking (i.e. I can't quite see the point of buying a new
bike designed to look like an old bike).

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<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Thus spake sean_q ((E-Mail Removed)) unto the assembled multitudes:
> > ...if I were to try and talk about a Hinckley Bonneville
> > on this forum? Would I be confronted after sundown by a large crowd
> > of serfs, carls, thralls, villeins and other feudal peasantry
> > raising a hue and cry and brandishing torches and pitchforks?
>
> > After all, the new Bonnie is a modern tribute to a classic.
>
> As I own a 17-yr-old Hinckley Trident I like to hear about other Hinckley
> bikes, though the majority here may consider the newer ones OT for this
> group. It would be fun to hear comparisons between the Meriden and Hinckley
> Bonnies. I did consider buying a HB myself but I decided it's a just a bit
> *too* retro for my liking (i.e. I can't quite see the point of buying a new
> bike designed to look like an old bike).

I just don't think the new Bonnie is that good a bike. The 2009-on
model, with the 17" wheels and uprated brakes, is much more like it, but
compared with the original it's lardy, large, and just a bit lacking in
snap.

It's a "nice" bike to ride but it doesn't get the adrenalin going. And
the Scrambler looks gorgeous but is nasty to ride.

Hate to say it, but the new 800cc version of the Kwasaki W650 is much
more like it, though I haven't ridden one.


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On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 20:19:44 -0700, sean_q <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>...if I were to try and talk about a Hinckley Bonneville
>on this forum?

Nothing much.

>Would I be confronted after sundown by a large crowd
>of serfs, carls, thralls, villeins and other feudal peasantry
>raising a hue and cry and brandishing torches and pitchforks?

WTF?

TBH though, you'd get more info if you posted to ukrm, rather than
just this one.

On 30/10/2010 09:09, The Older Gentleman wrote:
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> Thus spake sean_q ((E-Mail Removed)) unto the assembled multitudes:

>>> After all, the new Bonnie is a modern tribute to a classic.

>> I did consider buying a HB myself but I decided it's a just a bit
>> *too* retro for my liking (i.e. I can't quite see the point of buying a new
>> bike designed to look like an old bike).
>
> I just don't think the new Bonnie is that good a bike. The 2009-on
> model, with the 17" wheels and uprated brakes, is much more like it, but
> compared with the original it's lardy, large, and just a bit lacking in
> snap.
>
> It's a "nice" bike to ride but it doesn't get the adrenalin going. And
> the Scrambler looks gorgeous but is nasty to ride.
>

I really like the look of the Thruxton, would that be similarly
disappointing? Not that I plan to buy one, or anything.

sean_q wrote:
> ...if I were to try and talk about a Hinckley Bonneville
> on this forum? Would I be confronted after sundown by a large crowd
> of serfs, carls, thralls, villeins and other feudal peasantry
> raising a hue and cry and brandishing torches and pitchforks?

More than likely - I never rated the vibro-massage machine greatly...

> After all, the new Bonnie is a modern tribute to a classic.

Yers - like some might pay homage to a B34, when there are B32s to worship?

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Rusty

Higgins wrote:

> I really like the look of the Thruxton, would that be similarly
> disappointing? Not that I plan to buy one, or anything.

<nostalgia>

I had a *PROPER* Thruxton - a Clubman's Venom of the same year that the
24-hour plod took place. Proper black job, not the gaudy cockerel that
resulted.

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Rusty

Oily wrote:

> But there's "no substitute for cubes", as the merkins say.

I think the actual quotation is: "There is no substitute for wool", as
observed by reading posters on public transport in the '40s, 50s and 60s
- along with, IIRC, a ball of wool pierced with two knitting kneedles,
in the form of a striding ostrich...

Cubes are all very well, but Mr. Cube came fro Tate and Lyle, AIDRC

The Transpondian view is all very well assuming the megacube was
designed as such, along with all its components, rather than being an
overbored tiddler.

The 34 didn't go a lot faster than the 32, though it got there a bit
quicker, but with a penchant for leaving engine bits strewn along the
course of its subsequent rapid deceleration.

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Rusty

"Rusty Hinge" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:iagpi0$vv3$(E-Mail Removed)...

Wotcha.

> Yers - like some might pay homage to a B34, when there are B32s to
> worship?

I'm a B33 chap - though I do have a B31


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^..^ Lone Wolf wrote:
> "Rusty Hinge" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:iagpi0$vv3$(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> Wotcha.

Wotcha

>> Yers - like some might pay homage to a B34, when there are B32s to
>> worship?
>
> I'm a B33 chap - though I do have a B31

I've never had, nor ever wanted a Goldie, though I wouldn't have kicked
a B32 out of my shed.

I had a ZB31 many years ago. When clean, it had a black frame, forks
etc, plungers, green and chrome tank, and leaks.

Round the local coffee bars it was known as 'The Torrey Canyon'.

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Rusty