On a later version of the Vic baggers, they deleted the crash bars in the interest of style, it was a big wheel bagger, 21 front, lowered rear suspension, apes. Nice and stable at speed, but took a bit more effort to chuck around on mountain roads and front tyre wear was high if you did that.

Jesus!

Holy Fuck !    Did he manage to keep the bike upright?

At least half the mincing has already been done if you wanted rissoles.  😂

And the intestines are right there if you wanted some for sausage skins.

I quickly scrolled through the article and it does look interesting. Will have a proper look later.

One thing that incident shows is just how strong the Vic tourer frame was. I've seen one that cut halfway through a Chinese shitbox MG and still stayed dimensionally correct with no detectable cracks by the dye penetrative test. 

Latest acquisition. 

Simply beautiful Ratbob, a trip down memory lane just looking at the pic. '69 or '70?

Cheers Steve, it’s a 69.

Was having a coffee the other day and a blast from my past turned up, CB1100rc. She had 60k on the clock and was far from loved but regularly given a flogging by the owner according to the boys riding with him. This was a HRC factory built bike to win the Castrol 6hr production race and came with a spares kit when you bought it new. Not many brought in and not many left on the road. Rare old girl

Wanted one of these in my younger days. Worth a few bob today.

Liked the later half fairing ones better, but still a good bike.

Hope you have a big toolkit you carry with you or a good roadside assist policy.

Triumphs of that era were light enough to push for miles if needed, and easy enough to get into the back of a ute. Utes were lower then too.

Determined sob ain't ya lol.

Sure do FC, packed in with 2 litres of oil and a good luck card 😎.

Was, Hilly, was! I was only in my 40's then. Hit a big pothole hard on the Newell heading north out of Wyalong, late one Saturday night night, decided to camp for the night and turned off down a dirt road, went 7km down it before rolling out the swag in some scrub by the side. Woke up near dawn, packed up, and the bike wouldn't crank. Figured some of the battery plates must have been shaken loose. Couldn't push start on the loose gravel, so unloaded and stashed the stuff under a camo tarp, pushed the 7km back to the bitumen and saw a slight hill just to the north. Pushed to the top of that which absolutely knackered me, just got to the top when a bloke in a car stopped and offered to help. 

That's a great story haha, yep determined lmao