Re: [ST] full-page ad

["Ashley Bennett" <spondon955@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If it is anything like the ads here in Australia they are the responsibility
of the local distributor so I don't think it has anything to do with the
British sense of humour, if it did it would have been funny.
Ashley
'00 Spondon 955i
'95 Speed Triple

>
>  Have you seen Triumph's full-page ad in the U.S. moto mags
> (Motorcyclist, Cycle World, etc.)?  If you haven't,... try not to
> look!  Lame doesn't begin to apply,... crippled, even, doesn't do it
> justice.  The ad pictures an RS Sprint being ridden through a country
> curve by a rider in full sport-riding leathers (complete with knee
> puck) and wearing a full-face helmet. so far so good; but the bold
> print caption reads  'Humiliate men in leather suits!'.
>
>  What's with that??  If this is mythical British humor, it's totally
> lost on this side of the Atlantic river.  Now if that caption were
> combined with a picture of a Bonneville ridden by a guy in jeans,
> brown leather flight jacket and a leather helmet with goggles,... or
> if it were a Speed-Triple ridden by a surfer type in shorts, sandals
> and t-shirt, the American reader would get a chuckle out of the ad
> and it would make some since, but.....
>
>  If anyone knows a good American advertising agency, please put them
> in touch with Triumph of America immediately, before any more damage
> is done.  Time is of the essence!
>
>                                     Worried in California;
>
>                                           donnydogood   - - - o%\o
>
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