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Peter’s 2002 America

moe — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 18:37:33 +0000

Owner: Peter Amnell (pete57)
Location: Yowie Bay,Nsw,Australia
Model: Bonneville America
Year: 2002
Odometer: 18,500 kilometers
Member’s Rides Forum Thread

Description

D&D Pipes,K&N filters,relocated battery with two flat bars.removed secondary air,rejetted with 45 pilots and 152 mains.Procom CdI.Kuryakin pegs and grips.Braided brake lines.Bars ,fender brackets,forks and triple trees powder coated.4 inch risers.99% of parts from newbonneville.com.Great guys to do business with.
Cheers Pete

If you would like to submit your Bonneville America, America or Speedmaster as a candidate to be featured on the homepage for a week, fill out the form on the submission page.

Status (an ongoing thing!)

moe — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:21:45 +0000

We have made significant progress the last few days in collecting vital information, gaining control of stuff and generally rocking the world! Okay not really, but at least we have a better handle on things. When we lost the porbeagle server, wow, that was a nervous moment in time! Our first test so to say. Yet even then, the procedures to correct that problem were all on Dreamhost. We did loose a bit of information when the data base was restored: some post that had occurred between the time of the lost server and the last backup Dreamhost had made. Nothing older than a day or so. We are still looking seriously at migrating away from the UBB boards onto those of vBulletin. By year end?

Moving Forward

moe — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 22:32:49 +0000

The loss of John Bedard has hit us all hard. John wanted us to continue and we shall! The software upgrade to the forums is still in the works. However, the current forum software is doing fine so we are going to take things slow and easy as we work to implement the vBulletin software. We’d like to resume featured members rides, as well as trying to bring the blog (homepage) back to an active status.

Hiatus

FriarJohn — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:57:41 +0000

We’re going to continue the hiatus we’ve been enjoying on the blog (homepage) since the holidays as we prepare for a software upgrade to the forums. There is a module with that forum package that may end up replacing WordPress as our homepage content management system. No need to make more work for ourselves. We hope that the transition be as painless as possible, and that we’ll be able to import not only the forum content but the WordPress homepage content.

As always we appreciation your patience.

Memorial for Larry

FriarJohn — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 01:09:28 +0000

Forum Moderator Chy Adams has written a beautiful tribute for Larry Sheppard (LarryShep), a beloved member of this site since the beginning, who died recently after succumbing to injuries suffered during a motorcycle accident. We’ve published Chy’s memorial, along with a few photos, in the In Memoriam section.

Lou’s 2006 Speedmaster

FriarJohn — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:00:35 +0000

Owner: Lou Carreiro (capt_lou)
Location: Fort Walton Beach, FL USA
Model: Speedmaster
Year: 2006
Odometer: 12,600 miles
Member’s Rides Forum Thread

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Description

I bought my Speedmaster about 2 years ago and have added a bit of chrome and stuff here and there… Kuryakyn grips, levers, mirrors, pegs and shifter peg, plus Triumph chrome valve and chain covers, a few things from Fast Eddy. Took out the snorkel and did the Polaris replacement and rejetting. It has worked really well so far. The latest additions are the Mutazu MU hard bags on EasyBrackets. Still getting used to how wide that setup is!

If you would like to submit your Bonneville America, America or Speedmaster as a candidate to be featured on the homepage for a week, fill out the form on the submission page.

Greg’s 2003 Bonneville America

FriarJohn — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 23:00:50 +0000

Owner: Greg Yount (Bayern710)
Location: Frederick, Colorado USA
Model: Bonneville America
Year: 2003
Odometer: 37,000 miles
Member’s Rides Forum Thread

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Description

Although she’s not really modded, she’s just right. That’s what I loved about this bike and still do, it was almost perfect right out of the box! She’s covered parts of the country from the Carolinas to New England and all the way West, and has always been just right. Just some carb tweaks, driving lights, and some toolboxes from a Heritage Softail, I just haven’t felt right doing much more to her.

[Note: The frequency of the Featured Member's Ride posts will slow down as the submissions slow down, and may or may not debut each Wednesday, but new articles will always be "featured" for a week.—FJ]

If you would like to submit your Bonneville America, America or Speedmaster as a candidate to be featured on the homepage for a week, fill out the form on the submission page.

Custom Hinckley Showcase

FriarJohn — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:23:30 +0000

I don’t have enough information on each of these bikes (or time) to do individual features, so I’ve been collecting pictures for a big dump of photos just like this…

A quick shout out, many (okay, most) of these came from the Bonnefication. I follow several blogs through my feed reader and have been “starring” posts for a long time. This post is my attempt at a little house cleaning in my feed reader.

Tom’s 2009 America

FriarJohn — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:00:33 +0000

Owner: Tom Janz (Elfwolf)
Location: White Bear Lake, Minnesota USA
Model: Triumph America
Year: 2009
Odometer: 4739 miles
Member’s Rides Forum Thread

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Description

Abby is short for “AB-normal”. It started as a inside joke from a friend in IL (See young Frankenstein for better understanding I have taken that to heart and created a unique and lovely lady). Most of my parts and addons came from Fast Eddy Sports.

Since then I have added the tan seat, Kuryakyn Iso-grips with Throttle Boss ends, and SwitchWings footpegs . I also installed the Kuryakyn Driving bar. She had her tapered upper forks changed back to straight to accomodate the Memphis shield. The Hard street bags were added just this spring.

If you would like to submit your Bonneville America, America or Speedmaster as a candidate to be featured on the homepage for a week, fill out the form on the submission page.

Acme Choppers Hinckley Build

FriarJohn — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:19:19 +0000

[Update: the new owner has started a thread about more modifications over on Chop Cult. --FJ]

We haven’t had a custom Hinckly feature in a while, and this one is a doozy. And it (was) for sale.

“We built this custom Hinckley Chopper frame based on our proven Acme Loop tail chopper construction and geometry. The finished product has a badass stance, great ground clearance, a nice tight steer tube angle and perfect proportions.”

Features:

Acme custom frame
Acme wide glide trees with turned down fork sliders
Acme risers with custom handlebars
All custom fab work done in-house
Road King Wheels with Firestone meats
Modern Triumph Bonneville engine
Acme billet grips
Trick oil cooler deflector guard

It has gone to a new home and if and when it receives paint I’ll update the photos.

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