hello from cheffy

Welcome to the fold. Britain isn't cold, it's overly moist.
thanks for the warm welcome guys ( yankie term)
got your book for christmas last year really good read atomsplitter

Just to set the record straight my bike is black and my engine is a very nice 50 shades of grey

thanks again for the warm welcome
cheffy
 

Well, at least your engine is the right color !

As for the color / speed thing, there was some confusion early on. Be cause the red bikes were SO much faster, Triumph feared endless litigation. To alleviate the problem a small switch was installed under the petrel tank to disable two of the cylinders, making it more at parity with the black ones. I know where the switch is

Another fellow on this site paid to have some extensive research done on the matter, here are his results;



Hope this clears up some things for you, and WELCOME TO THE SITE !
 
I had some outpatient surgery today and am on vicodin. **** Skip your like a psychic or something
yeah you may be on drugs (painkillers) but you are still telling the truth as for Skip he's just confused arn't you Skip, hey how did go with the light?