{"id":3750,"date":"2019-04-07T06:08:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T13:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=3750"},"modified":"2019-04-07T06:08:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T13:08:37","slug":"dream-bike-1978-triumph-bonneville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/04\/07\/dream-bike-1978-triumph-bonneville\/","title":{"rendered":"Dream Bike: 1978 Triumph Bonneville"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a blog I did for CSC a year or so ago, and it’s one I thought I would run again here. \u00a0 We haven’t done a Dream Bikes<\/a> blog in a while, and it’s time.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s raining, it\u2019s cold here in southern California, and those two conditions are enough to keep me indoors today. I\u2019ve been straightening things up here in the home office, and I came across a Triumph brochure from 1978. I bought a new Bonneville that year and as I type this, I realize that was a cool 40 years ago. Wowee. Surprisingly, the brochure scanned well, so much so that even the fine print is still readable\u2026<\/p>\n

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Triumph had two 750 twins back then. One was the twin-carb Bonneville, and the other was the single-carb model (I think they called it the Tiger). The Bonneville came in brown or black and the Tiger came in blue or red (you can see the color palette in the third photo above). I liked the red and my dealer (in Fort Worth) swapped the tank from a Tiger onto my Bonneville. I loved that bike, and I covered a lot of miles in Texas on it. I used to ride with a friend and fellow engineer at General Dynamics named Sam back in the F-16 days (he had a Yamaha 500cc TT model, which was another outstanding bike back in the day). I wish I still had that Bonneville.<\/p>\n

After I sold the Bonneville, I turned right around and bought a \u201979 Electra-Glide Classic. There\u2019s a brochure buried around here somewhere on that one, and if I come across it I\u2019ll see how it scans. The Harley had a lot of issues, but it\u2019s another one I enjoyed owning and riding, and it\u2019s another I wish I still owned.<\/p>\n

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So there you have it. \u00a0 That ’78 Bonneville is a bike I still have dreams about, and they were made all the more poignant by the Royal Enfield Interceptor I rode in Baja last month.\u00a0 You can read about the Enfield Interceptor and our Baja adventures here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Want to read more pieces like this?\u00a0 Check out our other Dream Bikes here<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a blog I did for CSC a year or so ago, and it’s one I thought I would run again here. \u00a0 We haven’t done a Dream Bikes blog in a while, and it’s time. It\u2019s raining, it\u2019s cold here in southern California, and those two conditions are enough to keep me indoors … Continue reading “Dream Bike: 1978 Triumph Bonneville”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[235,392,232,89,610],"tags":[419,645],"class_list":["post-3750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-back-in-the-day","category-dream-bike","category-motorcycle-adventure-ride","category-royal-enfield","tag-royal-enfield","tag-triumph-bonneville"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3750"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3764,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions\/3764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}