Help! Footrest Rubbers Thunderbird 900

Hi guys as a newbie on the forum I own a 1996 Thunderbird 900 and a 1997 Speed Triple Mk 1.

I want a new set of front footrest rubbers for my Tbird. Seems Triumph fuse the rubber to the footrest and charge a total of £130 for two new footrests. Does anybody know if anybody manufactures replacement rubbers please, as I am struggling to justify spending this sort of sum on two footrest rubbers? I have tried places such as Norman Hyde & Sprint Manufacturing.

Thank you in anticipation of any assistance. Cheerz

 

Hi Steve have tried Sprint Manufacturing but no joy there unfortunately. Cheerz Cliff

 

Thanks Dave and for all the help I am getting; much appreciated. I have had a look at these foot rests on Ebay. It seems that one has a, shall I call it, a hero blob on the end. I bought a really good pair of these, which are for the Speedmaster and America, having been assured they will fit the early Thunderbird 900. Unfortunately, whilst they look absolutely identical to the original, they are ever so fractionally to wide to mount on the footrest hanger on the Tbird. So still looking but thanks again for all the help. Cliff

 

Thanks for the replies guys, much appreciated.

I am going to try and modify the Speedmaster footrests I think to make them fit. This will only involve machining a couple of thou off either side of the footrest and polishing them afterwards.

Doug the footrest rubbers fitted to your Daytona are identical to the rubbers fitted to my Mark 1 Speed Triple 900 and are available from Sprint Manufacturing and inexpensive and easy to fit. The Thunderbird footrest rubbers are totally different.

Brian I would happily cut off the existing rubbers but I don't have anything to replace them and there is no way you could easily modify other rubbers to fit.

But thanks for all your suggestions and replies guys. Cheerz Cliff