I think the bike looks great and that you have just shown me my next new bike, much like your pictures of the then-new 2001 Yamaha FZ1 motivated me to purchase that motorcycle. Thanks for revealing the new Thunderbird from Triumph. It’s all I could afford right now, but that Triumph Thunderbird 1600 featured in your November issue has me drooling. It’s just like old times: I like my Suzuki, One of the first things I did afterward was to re-subscribe to your great magazine. Egan for President! William GreenĪfter a long hiatus from motorcycling (my last bike was a Kawasaki H2 750, circa 1974), I recently jumped back into the ring with the purchase of a used Suzuki VL1500 cruiser. Umn on the next page, which praised 500cc British standards, brought some sense of reason back to the entire situation and restored credibility to one of my favorite publications. Luckily, Peter Egan’s brilliant “Imperial Gallons” col. The Editor-in-Chief’s support of these uninspired, overpowered, fuelsucking ego-feeders had me ready to cancel my subscription. I’m tired of seeing the OEMs decide that Americans need more cruiser models with huge engine displacements. It breaks my heart to see a company with so much tradition and a history of making beautiful and innovative bikes rely on the tired old theory of just making another random, Harleyinspired, big-displacement cruiser. Prices for hotels in Maryland Heights are refreshed on a daily basis.How in the world could an accomplished rider and writer like David Edwards praise Triumph’s new 1600cc Thunderbird (“Anglo-American,” Up Front, November) when it clearly represents everything that is wrong with motorcycle sales in America?
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