Trophy Time to rack the Miles up

Had the Trophy 3 weeks low mileage and done the obligatory Coil replacement now runs rather nice...soon an epic adventure clocking up more miles than the last owner did in 2 years.....in a week .

 

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By all means .....
From here Chester the Roman Empire (Bloody Romans....Oi!) over to France then Germany which I shall Tour for a week. Will be riding to my destination all in one day. I shall update as I go to those who could be arsed reading.... peace

 

Looking forward to it. What route are you using to cross France. I'm in the Limousin.

Dave

 

Calais, e15, a16, e40 , a4, e25 then over the Rhine .
Cheers , oh and obviously getting to Eurotunnel across this rock.

 

Had a great ride out today in prep for my forthcoming epic adventure. Went to N.Wales coast then up through A5 to Pondarosa Llangollen where is saw a load of guys on Trumpets, the sun Yes that thing was shining, after chatting like crazy and full of pie and chips I headed home to Rome...bike btw was faultless .... onwarrrrrd ho!

 

Bike porn

 

That's a really nice colour.

 

Thanks, yea shines up well unlike the owner.... peace \m/

 

Can you tell me a bit more about the coil replacement. I'm new to Trophies, in fact don't have one till Thursday when Im picking up a low mileage 2012 model, having ridden a BMW for years. Is there a known issue with the Trophy coil?

 

Hi, yea I believe its quite a common fault. With mine after riding a few miles it was misfiring on acceleration. Changing the coils is quite easy and takes a few minutes and worth changing the spark plugs at this stage. The awkward part is removing the tank many say you have to remove the trim from around the seat the plastics that is however i got round this by just undoing the bolts along the edge and side and being careful. Thing to look out for is make sure you dont trap the vac pipes to the pet cock and remember where they go on the pet cock. Hopefuly yours is ok , as I say usual faults are Vacuum pipe or coils which you would feel àfter a few miles.good luck .. just holler if I can help more .

 

Thanks, I will look out for the symptoms, and let you know if I get a problem.

 

3,702 km Done, Bike went well fabulous journey, just New rear pads and service caliper due to sticking piston as I pulled into my drive.
Peace all

 

Glad you had a good trip, welcome back

 

Just got to get my square tyres round again.

 

Stripped rear calliper and serviced it...new pads and by the way whoever makes up these prices seeing as compared to a cars pads are tiny should be flogged with a wet kipper I have bigger pads in My Mountain bike. Anyhoo dont have to do stoppies now..peace