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I just want to post a nice Interceptor 650 photo.

Andy131

Well travelled
Location
Manchester UK
So does my next door neighbor, I come back from a ride out on the Himmy to find him polishing his new red Interceptor on the driveway. His new to him (3,000 miles on the clock) toy - granted next door only have one car, so he is going to have to use it on our winter salted roads :eek: to get to work.
He was at home minding the kids - does polishing your new bike on the driveway count as minding the kids?, but has tomorrow free, would I like to go for a ride? Mmmm not sure that the Himmy could keep up, fairly sure that the reason that I bought a bike is to be on my own after losing my soul mate, but offending neighbors isn't going to help - we'll see.
 

petespace1

Well travelled
Location
Aus
I ride my Himalayan with friends who have 1) Africa Twin , 2) 1250 BMW, 3) 650 Suzuki, 4) Honda 500X, and a Burgman 650.
Same I ride with 4 others: vstrom 650, Triumph tiger 800, Ducati scrambler 800 and KTM 1290. They do very occasionally make comments about ‘captain slow’ / only on motorway stretches though. 😀 It is rare as we mostly ride ‘A’ and ‘B’ roads with plenty of twisties and hairpin bends where the Himmi is pretty good.
The banter eventually moves on to important things in life such as finding a good pie shop or a good bacon and egg brekkie place with good coffee. That gets animated.. 😁
 

Bentouttashape

Well travelled
Avon Roadriders made a major upgrade to the handling and grip, especially in the wet. Took away the vague steering and made it precise.
next big step is the YSS fork and rear spring upgrades which turn the RE into exactly what I wanted to do. As a rider and builder for the last half century I have my idea of what works on what kind of bike, and the simplicity and basic excellent geometry of the RE gives me what the new Triumphs don’t, a platform to make my style of daily urban update of my many early Triumphs Nortons BSA style bike. Not like all my hard tail HD pans & knuckles……
 
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