going down in BHP

my friend had a thruxton and put track pipes on sounded great.

ah ok. I thought the thruxton was a beefed up bonnie. I'd love to get one and get it tuned up. I remember reading about examples in mcn that were producing oodles of power of standard ones. It's be great to go out sportsbike bashing on one of those The tbird a kneedown kind of bike or a little more leisurely?

[rictus01]

Originally Posted by gettin2dizzy

ah ok. I thought the thruxton was a beefed up bonnie. I'd love to get one and get it tuned up. I remember reading about examples in mcn that were producing oodles of power of standard ones. It's be great to go out sportsbike bashing on one of those The tbird a kneedown kind of bike or a little more leisurely?

Basically the original Hinkley Bonnie was a 790cc machine, they produced the Thruxton with a slightly longer stroke to up the cc's and power a bit (don't get to excited, not alot), then a revised Bonnie came out (T100) and has the same engine as the Thruxton now as does the scrambler, even a well tuned Thruxton isn't going to be a sportbike killer, the engine frame and suspension just aren't of that quality, nice and feel fast (with a little playing that is) but feel fast rather than being fast, suppose with the right engine work/ frame bracing/ fork change & rear shock/ brake upgrade you could get close, but then the T'bird sport already has all of that, so why bother ?

the T'bird sport can be hussled about and no doubt you could easily get you knee down on it, although not an option for me as I can't take any corner weight on the bad one or even use it to hook on to the bike the other way, but it's really planted in the corners so lean angles aren't a problem at all (that'll be the sportbike suspension then).

i found the thruxton to handle really well all things considered, it did feel down on power tho for such a heavy bike.

[northwind]

I love those... I chased one of those from Gala to Moffat once, I don' think he knew the road so I could keep up, but he just looked so much cooler than me while he was doing it... And the noise! Fantastic. Not all that authentic I suppose, but who wants authentic? Old bikes were rubbish!

They don't make that model now do they ? So when were the last ones available ?

Does look nice I must admit...

[rictus01]

Originally Posted by Jelster

They don't make that model now do they ? So when were the last ones available ?


Does look nice I must admit...

mines a 98-99 model (only availible in red or yellow)





99-01 model


2002-03


2004-05


2005-06
the last had the yellow tank incert in black as well, production finished in 05, however a few 06 reg bikes are still to be found.

Basically all they changed was the colours and the twin stack pipe to one each side.

Cheers Mark.

[northwind]

That one in black is just ace. Stick a Remus powercone exhaust on it, and it's finished...

[STRAMASHER]

Cool bik.

Black one is gorgeous! I really fancy one of these old schoolers myself. Keep the SV as a workhorse. However a thunderbird with clipons would be gorgeous!