written by on 23/12/2013
Mine is an 06 carb T100, bought new and now has 35K miles on her. She has Givi 990 screen, Oxford heated grips,Triumph King & Queen seat, Renntech rack, GIVI 45 litre topbox, Oxford big throw overs and I use 10 litre bicycle panniers over the tank, plus a tank bag when two up touring with my wife. From new, fitted with Scottoiler using EP80 gear oil. 19tooth front and 42 tooth rear sprockets. The front needs turning over every 10K miles and the chain goes 20K. The rear is still fine, after 25K usage. Front brakes 20K, rear 17K. Standard shocks and lights, never needed to upgrade. We go 100miles and stop for coffee/fuel, then go again. Last trip Plymouth/Roscoff/Cl.Ferrand/Millau Bridge/Valencia/Seville/Lagos [Algarve] Lisbon/Serra Estrellas and home to UK. 3,500 miles in 16 riding days. Now time for an oil change [every 10k miles and semi-synth], new rear pads and we are off again. We cruise at 60 mph/60mpg. This is year 42 on bikes for us, with our combined age of 119 years. We have an FJR 1300 in the garage at home, bought for long distance European touring. After 10K FJR miles we reverted to Bonny Long Legs for touring and must get round to selling the FJR soon. Why the Bonny ? it's at home on whatever road or dirt track you ride on, overloaded or not. The FJR likes 90mph on motorways, which is nice if you like that, but really boring for us. Put it on twisties in the mountains or a little bit of gravel and the FJR is really hard work.
Mr Bloor, sir, you have an excellent motorcycle in the Bonny, pity about being forced into fuel injection though. Mind you, the AMAL re-carbed conversion goes really quite well.....Yes you can convert them back. And in our local Devon riding group, so far there have been two BMW LT's one Guzzi 1200 and two others I forget, sold and swopped for Bonny's.
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