Triumph video

Hi,
I'm new to this group so you may have seen this video.
http://www.webzeum.com/VintageFilms/Triumph/tabid/56/Default.aspx

John

 

Lovely. And I believed every word.

--
platypus

"Merely corroborative detail, intended to
give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise
bald and unconvincing narrative."

 

platypus says...

I bought my Triumph because of that film. I heard an old bloke saying
"Ah, they don't make them like that any more" and that was enough to
convince me.

Also, I swear blind I saw a young Colin Irvine meandering through
central London in a Mk IV Jaguar in there somewhere.

 

They look very little bigger than a Z200.

I didn't realise the film was that old.

--
platypus

"Merely corroborative detail, intended to
give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise
bald and unconvincing narrative."

 

platypus says...

I made a mistake, I meant MkIX. That brings it closer to the time.

 

Ooh, nasty old platypus!
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<smirk>

--
platypus

"Merely corroborative detail, intended to
give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise
bald and unconvincing narrative."

 

good stuff. I'd say at a guess mid-50s.

 

It's taking ages to load but I seemed to spot Eric Morecambe hitting a
gudgeon pin with a hammer.
And more than that - that was the only on-topic post I have seen here
for 6½ years.

 

Roger Hunt says...

Do you mean it's the only British bike related post you've seen here in
that long[1]? That may be due to the fact that most owners of old
British bikes still have their heads stuck firmly in the sand and won't
buy one of those new-fangled computers[2]. They're sitting there playing
with slide rules waiting for the day when the Japanese are finally
exposed as selling rubbish, so Triumph can put the Pre-Unit Bonneville
back into production, because that's what everyone good British bloke
wants to buy really.

[1] This newsgroup hasn't existed for 6 1/2 years.
[2] They're just a fad, no-one will be buying them in 5 years time.

 

It is certainly the best.

It will, given time.

Quite. I've been saying that for forty years.

BTW, I would like to save the video for offline viewing but it is not a
..wmv as I know them. It is a .dat file and it won't co-operate.
Any ideas?

 

Thanks, will do. (This mms:// is new to me so I shall go read up on it.)

Cheers

 

Thanks again, will do (in offpeak hours because I am close to being
capped here).

Connecting the idiot lights?

 

not arf as questionable as the sound track. sounds like a wind-up
gramophone with a dodgy spring.

 

Anton Gijsen says...