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Indeed, and don’t forget I paid nine grand for it in the first place! Still, I’ve now got a well sorted T160 with a bulletproof race engine, I’m four years down the line and it’s been as solid as a rock, and I’m gradually getting over it. 😊 Nice to meet another Phil. I’m thinking of only allowing Phils access to this channel! 🤣👍🏍️

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Well same here really, those are all things I already have. This year I’ve put a new Yuasa for the Honda down on my list. The video’s only meant for the totally clueless relatives… and you’re telling me you’ve already got all the mugs and T shirts you’ll ever need? Let alone motorbikes?! Have a lovely Christmas, and have fun on the new ride! 🏍️🎄

Wouldn’t we all! Thanks for the seasons greetings, and wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas too, and all the very best for 2025.

You never know, have you tried writing to Santa?

@3Phils Is that how it's spelt? I thought it was Satan. Oh well.

@EbenBransome Ha! 🤣

Thank you! 😊 To be absolutely honest, I’m even grateful for the socks! 🧦🧦🧦

My goodness, that is so kind, thank you! 😊 Wishing you a wonderful Christmas and a happy new year! 🇳🇿👍🇬🇧🏍️

Merry Christmas to you guys too, thanks for all the great motorcycling content. Buy yourselves a very small icecream :)

Actually there’s a mini pork pie I’ve got my eye on for Christmas, if I can unwrap it!

Popping that pic of a Melton Mowbray in the video really, really made me want to rush out immediately and buy one! But I’m saving myself for Christmas! 🏍️🎄

Richard and that new Triumph, can you convince Carol for that one ?

@@Jay_Speed Perhaps a new Triumph will make it into the garage????😉

Merry Christmas to you too! 🏍️🎄

Lucky duck! You’re going to be all smiles this Christmas! Have a great one! 👍🏍️🎄

Ha! I do too. It would just be nice to get something a little more original and bike-orientated for Christmas. 🎄🏍️

Yes, I thought it was interesting that Honda had partnered with Nottingham Trent University to do the research. It was part of ‘Honda Week’ at the uni, where Honda brought in a range of bikes and put them on display, then asked the students questions about their attitude towards getting on two wheels. As you say, the motorcycle manufacturers do need to attract younger customers, many aren’t even interested in cars let alone bikes, in my experience. You can read the full report here: www.honda.co.uk/engineroom/bikes/honda-week-with-nottingham-trent-university/#:~:text=It%20might%20not%20come%20as,the%20UK%20is%20now%2054.

Couldn’t agree more! Personally I’m never happier than when I’m on two wheels. Thanks for liking and subscribing. 😊

Thank you! 😊 It was an immense privilege to film alongside such talented engineers recreating, mostly from memory and photographs, the machines they had developed 30 years earlier.

Greetings from the English seaside! 😊 I also wonder where young people are going to get upwards of £150,000 to buy these Jags. It’ll just be the privileged young, I suppose. The same types you see racing their Ferraris and Lambos on the streets of Kensington and Chelsea. Bikes do make me feel younger, but owning three in my case does make me feel rather spoilt. Still, as they say, ‘you can’t own too many bikes’! 🏍️🏍️🏍️

Yes, bit of a weird trend that!

Morning Dangerous, great to hear your love of two-wheeled adventures has been rekindled although it does surprise me that, with two exes, you had enough AUD left over to buy a bike! 🤣 The summer here in the UK was absolute shite too and being sixty-ahem makes me want every day to be a riding day. I hope the weather picks up for you this summer. I’ve spent a lot of time in Straya and seen all the weather extremes there, from drought to snow! Thanks for subscribing and thanks for the kind words about my humble video offerings! 👍👍👍👍🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️ 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

@ you mentioned Royal Enfield 😂🤣😂 I would never buy one as nothing good including ex wife number two has ever came out of India. 😉😉😉😂🤣😂

Ha! I presume from that statement she was perhaps, amongst other things, a bit of a ‘cash Interceptor’! 🤣🤣🤣

@ 😂🤣😂 Yeah definitely and the warning signs were there since when do you trust any woman let alone one 23 years your junior.

I also have that T shirt! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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I’ve done that trip, but admittedly only once. It’s an amazing ride!!

Triumph was definitely on my list when I went looking a couple of years ago. 🏍️👍

@3Phils I rented a 900 Bonneville a few years ago. Took it for a 300 mile ride through the California desert. It's not a good retrobike, it's a good bike period. Got a lot of compliments on the looks of it.

They’re great bikes, but personally I prefer a bit more ‘welly’ as we say over here, which is why I went for the Indian FTR. 🇺🇸👍

Well I’d be up for it, and I’ve got more hair than him! 🧑‍🦲

Excellent! None of this ‘working from home’ nonsense for us wrinkly riders! 👍🏍️

Spot on! I get the need to target the younger market, otherwise your customer base is literally going to die out. But finding ways to stimulate a younger audience that doesn’t appear to be interested in motorcycling, while keeping your core and ever-ageing customers engaged, ain’t easy. I guess the ‘hipster bike’ fad may have drawn a few younger folk into the fold. And perhaps all the young Deliveroo riders on scooters and electric bicycles will go on to greater things! 🤣

Welcome to grumpy England. A rather softer version of chippy Carolina (a gentle dig at the southern states 😂😂😂)

You sound perfect for the channel! Welcome aboard!

G’day! I was a bit slower off the mark than you, I got my bike licence four days after my 17th! I’ve only ever been through short periods without a motorcycle, but it wasn’t very long because it always felt as if I’d had a limb amputated. Thank you for the kind words and all the very best. 👍🏍️

Well I don’t read the Daily Mail and I wasn’t ‘triggered’. I read the Daily Telegraph and I was outraged! But seriously, being a jaGUar owner myself, and a keen biker, I was curious as to whether the bike companies were taking a similar approach. It’s just a bit of fun and anyway, most of my friends look like the folk in the jaGUar ad.

Well yes, it’s a bit creepy, isn’t it?! When I started this channel and began to see the stats, I too was surprised to see how ‘granular’ they are. Of course, it’s not down to the level of ‘Bert Scroggins of 22 Acacia Avenue just watched your video. He’s 64, has a dog called Milo, and owns a Toyota and a CBX’. But yes, I’ve wondered how it does it too. I guess unless you have a VPN (private secure network that hides your unique IP address), everything on the web can hoover up quite a lot of detail. Even if you have a VPN, YT’s algorithm will be able to extrapolate from the kinds of vids you watch and make a rough approximation of your age, gender, etc. But at least YT is ultimately accountable to US and other democratic countries’ regs. Which is why I never, ever go on TikTok!

@@3Phils I live at 24, not 22, that proves how perfect Ai is, but then crap=in = crap-out!

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The sort of folk depicted in the Jaguar ad probably don’t even have a driving licence! Most people I know who are in their 20s aren’t even interested in cars, let alone motorbikes. They seem to prefer public transport or Ubers. Maybe I’m wildly stereotyping there, but you could also that jaGUar are, ironically, also stereotyping by telling everyone to be ‘different’. Surely it’s madness for car and bike manufacturers to target just one, tiny portion of their potential customer base?

Having reached the ripe old age of sixty-ahem, I also find myself tempted by smaller bikes. In some ways it’s nostalgia for my late teens, when all I had was my moped or sub-250 to leap on, but in other ways the thought of having a light, reliable, nippy two-wheeler for short runs or to run around town on whenever I fancy is appealing. I hadn’t thought of the AJS until you mentioned it, but it’s a damn fine looking machine! Hmmm. 🤔

@@3Phils Shhh. Don't tell anyone, but I ride that little AJS more than I ride the Enfield. It's so much fun!

Stop it! I’m getting very tempted!

Same here! 🤣

Wow! 32! When I counted mine up, I have to say I was a bit disappointed it only came to 20. Must try harder! 😊🏍️

Sadly, I don’t think they are listening! I would have been sorely tempted if it had been a six as planned. I love exotica! I blame the bankers. Er, apologies if you’re a banker. 😕

Thank you! 😊 And ‘me too’ to that!

Keep going Buddy, I will be 80 next year and still ride a VFR750, enjoy life

@@hullygully1135 I aim to keep riding, haven't stopped yet.

Excellent! 🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️👍

@3Phils umm 2 BSA, 5 CZ, 1 Trumpet, 1 Matchless, 4 Hondas....

I’ve had two Triumphs, a Norton and seven Hondas, amongst others. 21 in all, they’re detailed in two of my recent videos. Happy riding! 🏍️👍

I have some sympathy with that view. Try getting around London in your own car!