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This is the End<\/h2>\n
The bottom of the last chapter from 6 months ago asks “…<\/div>\n
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Will the Triumph be finished? I believe it will. I don\u2019t think I\u2019m going to keep it, when I compare the modern Kawasaki to the vintage Triumph I now believe having a reliable motorcycle to ride on the highway in addition to having a race bike is worth letting go of the magic I once felt about this 650 Triumph. Of course as Curly in City Slickers said \u201cThe day ain\u2019t over with.\u201d<\/div>\n
So, we\u2019ll have to wait and see how all of this ends, but for today I will share some pictures of what we\u2019ve been doing.”<\/div>\n
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Well it has finally been finished! The mechanic up the road kept working and working on my race bike<\/a>, on all the other projects he had going at the time and he also kept working on this Triumph. The progress was slow, and I had near constant doubts that anything on either front would end well – I’d never have the race bike, and this Triumph would languish in his shop forever.<\/div>\n
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Then suddenly… he was done. With both! Within a week, we had the race bike running and the Triumph was running too.<\/div>\n
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Unfortunately the lottery gods did not smile on me and I had no other resources to pay for the race bike than to put the Triumph on the auction block. The first eBay listing was a failure, due to some mistakes I made trying to up the ante, but within a couple of days of the second listing I negotiated a sale to a fella in Australia.<\/div>\n
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How do I feel about shipping off the beautiful finished bike without having ever ridden it? Quite melancholy. I can’t risk wrecking it on one of those infamous ‘last rides’, so in the shipper’s trailer it goes with less than 5 minutes of run time, none of it with me on the saddle.<\/div>\n
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In the pictures below you can see the finished bike and the success I’ve had with the race bike – The smile on my face is telling, I suppose, but I’ll not be smiling when I load the bike in the shipper’s trailer tomorrow.<\/div>\n
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Happy ending? Overall, yes. Thanks for riding along with me.<\/div>\n
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Heading to the mechanic’s for final assembly March 2012 – and Finished Bike Dec. 2012\"\"<\/a><\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n
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First day at the races !<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n

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