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Next week MCN is riding the new Triumph Explorer 1200 at its world launch in Spain, and we want to put your questions to the Triumph team who built the bike. The new 139bhp three-cylinder adventure bike uses an all-new...
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Triumph Explorer 1200: What do you want to know?
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Posted 16 February 2012 - 12:11 PM
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Posted 16 February 2012 - 06:07 PM
I could see one of these finding its way into my garage.
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Posted 17 February 2012 - 08:17 AM
Ask them why we have to have a duet bin stuck to the side instead of an exhaust.
Does look very nice but will have to be good to beat the Yams proven reliability.
Does look very nice but will have to be good to beat the Yams proven reliability.
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Posted 21 February 2012 - 02:52 PM
Triumph have a good reliability record plus the bikes have character unlike anything jap.
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Posted 22 February 2012 - 05:26 AM
Triumph have made a brand strumpet of me, which is saying something. They have that European character without the German pretension and and the italian histrionics.
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Posted 22 February 2012 - 08:56 AM
That is anthropomorphizing. Motorcycles cannot have either pretensions or histrionics. They can be expensive or not, fast or not, quick or not, good handling or not, heavy or not, and etc. They cannot have psychological or emotional states. They are only machines.
Their riders amd/or oservers can and do exhibit all sorts of emotional and psychological states.
Their riders amd/or oservers can and do exhibit all sorts of emotional and psychological states.
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Posted 22 February 2012 - 12:01 PM
But they can and do. Take BlekBish for example...she earned that name 
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Posted 22 February 2012 - 01:36 PM
Lone Amigo, on 22 February 2012 - 08:56 AM, said:
That is anthropomorphizing. Motorcycles cannot have either pretensions or histrionics. They can be expensive or not, fast or not, quick or not, good handling or not, heavy or not, and etc. They cannot have psychological or emotional states. They are only machines.
Their riders amd/or oservers can and do exhibit all sorts of emotional and psychological states.
Their riders amd/or oservers can and do exhibit all sorts of emotional and psychological states.
Motorcycles can however have character, character is not a noun restricted to usage to describe an individual only but can describe a thing as well.
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