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Title: Triumph X75. Offered at $23500
Post by: chuck peterson on March 29, 2019, 08:42:06 AM

All original, unmolested virgin.......... :popcorn:

Do I hear a bid?

https://newyork.craigslist.org/jsy/mcy/d/wausau-vintage-triumph-triple-1973/6853048608.html


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Title: Re: Triumph X75. Offered at $23500
Post by: KiwiKev on March 29, 2019, 09:31:50 AM

What a bargain, I'll get my bro to pick it up for me  :thumb:

Title: Re: Triumph X75. Offered at $23500
Post by: fotoguzzi on March 29, 2019, 09:38:06 AM

listed in New York CL but bike in Wausau Wi. I guess you advertise where the money is?

Title: Re: Triumph X75. Offered at $23500
Post by: rocker59 on March 29, 2019, 10:38:32 AM

Quote from: chuck peterson on March 29, 2019, 08:42:06 AM

All original, unmolested virgin.......... :popcorn:

Do I hear a bid?


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Love how the Guzzi designers cribbed design cues from Hurricane for Roamer.  Fuel tank is a dead ringer!

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Title: Re: Triumph X75. Offered at $23500
Post by: tazio on March 29, 2019, 11:09:41 AM

Almost was a BSA !

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Title: Re: Triumph X75. Offered at $23500
Post by: guzzimatic on March 30, 2019, 11:46:21 AM

This brings back a favorite memory from long ago...I met a guy at my first Norton rally,Larry,at Leggett,Ca.up where highway 1 and 101 rejoin.It was 1980 and we became friends.I went to visit him in Stayton,Oregon and he suggested we go to Portland to see a bike shop he knew,it was the Cycle Hub,aka the Sandy Bandit.Larry had been cultivating this guy for years,he was infamous as a crusty curmudgeon but for some reason he took a liking to me and gave me the full tour...OMG he had been buying out British bike dealers as they closed and it was like Midas's hoard,he had 10 X-75 Hurricanes lined up,5 TT-120 Triumphs,jaw-dropping doesn't come close!!! The flip side was that he would take new bikes and break them up for parts,more money that way... It was the only time I was ever there,but I will never forget that trip!!!

Title: Re: Triumph X75. Offered at $23500
Post by: larrys on March 31, 2019, 12:24:29 PM

Quote from: tazio on March 29, 2019, 11:09:41 AM

Almost was a BSA !

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It really was a Rocket 3 with the body work designed by Craig Vetter. If you look closely at a Rocket 3 motor and a Trident motor, the cylinders on the Beezer are inclined forward about 15 degrees and the Trident cylinders are vertical. Different crankcases. Both engines, with their three sets of points to adjust and time, were a headache to tune. If one set loosened and closed up, the engine would run real hot and would likely grenade. A bud with a Trident blew his up chasing me and my 800CC big bore Bonneville across the Baldwin Bridge. When I took it apart, sure as hell, one set of points had closed a bit. 
Larry