Mid-week topic

[Steffan]

None,
I sold the XT and missed it but when I got it back I sold it again. No happy with what I have had, do have and may have in the future. Part of bikings big adventure.

Steffan

[Gaylord]

Hello Steffan
Did moses ever sell that Triumph? Or iam i thinking of somebody else.

Gaylord....Live long and protest!

[Steve Lake]

Velocette Viper 350 complete with the fibreglass engine covers.
newsagent from luton bought it.....he was reading MCN at 4 in the morning. was on my doorstep at 7 with a wad (this was before telephones had reached rural norfolk in any quantity  !)
i regretted that as he wheeled it out of my garage.

[guest29]

Xr400 for me, you you could do just about anything on on it (including falling off!)

[Steffan]

Hello Steffan
Did moses ever sell that Triumph? Or iam i thinking of somebody else.

Gaylord....Live long and protest!

  I have no idea what you're on about

[Gaylord]

Hello Steffan

Moses Triumph was heard throughout the land and stuff. Ok maybe not the most accurate quote but its from a old story book. I dont belive any of it because it was probably a BSA anyway.

yours the GAYLORD......

[Steffan]

Well Gaylord, if it's just a storybook, I wouldn't expect you to take it too literally.  Though why your literary tastes, however incredulous, would be of any interest to me, I have no idea.  But hey, thanks for sharing it with me all the same.

What is interesting is that you disbelieve this story you mention on the basis, not of contradictory evidence, but on a seemingly unfounded judgement as to the probability that a triumph was a BSA?  A bit like crossing a busy traffic junction with your eyes shut, having just been told told the lights are red, but choosing to think they are probably green...

Further wouldn't it make more sense to check the accuracy of the citation first before passing judgement as to its credibility?

Steffan

[Richard]

Surely, just before the end, Triumphs were BSA - and AMC and lots of others too.....

[Gaylord]

Sod it, i must have picked up a wrong stick. I snap your stick and and stamp on it.

Dont bother i is gone

[guest7]

I'm taking it that this whole exchange was prompted by a reference to that venerable and ancient joke: "Did you know Jesus was a biker? In the bible it says he roared his triumph across the land"
(in basil brush voice) BOOM! BOOM! (not  )

They say the old ones are the best you know 
GC

[Ian]

The actual quote is

"the roar of Moses' Triumph is heard in the hills"

[guest18]

I had in mind that it was something along the lines of "Moses came down from the mountain on his triumph" but my memory may be playing tricks on me and no offence is of course intended to anyone if I'm incorrect!! 

[Steffan]

oops, was I too deadpan? 

Come back..all is forgiven

Steffan
 
PS what stick?

PPS I suspect that the whole thing is apocryphal. The only two references to triumph in the Pentateuch are to "triumphant" and in both cases it is God who is triumphant.
(At which point, he wraps his anorak about himself and heads out to the shed to tend to his MZs)

[Richard]

She wouldn't be seen dead on a Triumph.  Nortons all the way.

[guest27]

Nah she rides a Sun.  175 Villers I think. Starts up every morning and manages to make Margam to Britton Ferry by night fall.  Seems the denser colder air in the winter means she can travel faster in the winter, making the trip in about 8 hours as opposed to the summer when She takes anything up to 18 hours.

As to what any particular books says I guess it is all dependent on how far removed from the original author it is in time, context, translation, interpretation etc.  I am sure we have all had instruction sheets translated from the Japanese or Korean etc via Swedish without the need to speak either language - ala Monty Python.

What has this got to do with the OP?  Not a lot.

R