Well, I do not hold anything against the magnificent effort John Bloor has made in bringing the great British marque, TRIUMPH, back from the tombs of time. He and his products deserve an absolute but not quite unconditional WOWZAA!!! The Hinckley Bonneville is one fine motorcycle -- even with a sprinkling of plastic. I know because I had a 2001 model, which I sold in 2003. I missed the bike, so I bought a 2005 model, which I sold in 2008 to thin the herd.
My principal complaint, which is shared by two great British motorcycle mechanics I know, is the claimed dry weight of 451 lbs. (I am fairly convinced that its dry weight exceeds the claim by TRIUMPH.) I always felt the new Bonneville could easily have been built with a more realistic claimed dry weight of 400 lbs. These two mechanics I know and absolutely trust, who refer to the engine of the new Bonneville as "that lump of an engine", feel that the factory could have easily dropped 100 lbs. off the bike's dry weight from the start!!!
In closing, my brothers and sisters, I wish to make the three following points:
1. The Hinckley Bonneville is a copy of a once great motorcycle model.
2. The Bullet is quite close to (and is in fact) the real McCoy!
3. Those of you who own (or would like to own) a Hinckley Bonneville could not go wrong in any way because (and previously stated): "The Hinckley Bonneville is one fine motorcycle -- even with a sprinkling of plastic."