"I have a Silver Triumph Daytona CE. Just collected my Silver CE on Friday. I originally ordered it in green.. then switched to a standard 955i cause I liked the silver.. hen decided I couldnt live without the single sided swing arm.. then threateneed to cancel while looking at a R1 in Silver.. After a little negotiating and an additional charge of £300, my Silver CEwas born! I'm over the moon and cant wait till this tedious run-in period is over (next saturday - gotta ride it hard for this week!) . The singled sided rear and silver coachwork is *absolutely* the dogs danglies. Triumph's attitude certainly seems to lean towards proving the 'order whatever you like' theory for 2003. I will be uploading some pictures as soon as poss." - quote: me,  May 2002.

And that started my obsession with Triumph Motorcycles. Here I am ten years later, on the other side of the pond and I still have a Triumph in the Garage. The difference is that this one is even older, much yellower and not quite road worthy yet. So, as a long term, no rush, simply fantastic machine to work on the super T595 is my new garage bound boys toy.

In March 2010, I found a 1998 Triumph Daytona T595 on eBay: A fantastic Strontium Yellow bike, very low mileage and near showroom condition. After two years in storage, when I fired the old girl up and she sat burbling on tickover and test rode like a dream. With a big cheesy grin, I paid and set off on the three hour ride home... Fifteen minutes later the engine had morphed from the perfect grin inducing triple howl to a graveyard of silence. The sounds of Anglo-Saxon expletives were only broken by the sounds of me futilely pressing the starter and its BRrR-K-K-KbbrrbrbrBRBRB. The Yellow Peril was in Coma. An hour later I was wheeling it into the back of a recovery truck... the T595 journey began!

Here's a quick overview of what made up the DIGITAL DAYTONA website http://triumph.projex.com/

The website core is Drupal 7 running a number of modules to tweak its performance and versatility:

• MEDIA - This is the first sight where I've been playing with this terrific module
• Calendar and Date Modules - we are still fine tuning this, but by the time you read this it's probably being used to broadcast gig dates, festival venues and auspicious lunar cycles
• CKeditor - Simply the best wysiwig editor for Drupal. If you dont think it is... well.. your wrong. so there. This should be in core.
• ActiveTags and Taxonomy Cloud - for those lovely keyword clouds
• XMLSitemap - yet another Drupal module that should be in core.
• and loads more...