Great - that's how all my previous bikes have been. Now I have found that my forks are twisted to point the wheel to the left, I am not surprised that the bike is not going straight. You have to ask how Triumph could hand over this unstable mess to a paying customer.
Oh Yes! I loosened all pinch bolts this morning and gave it a shaking then retightened, and road tested. Improved but not perfect. Dropped it at dealers for 600mile first service He said not even the front wheel is inserted in UK, bike comes fully assembled from theThai factory. Aha! Blame being pointed overseas, not the pdi then...hmmm! I asked for a full frontal shakedown, assessment and retorque. Hope they do it - or I am off.
As said up thread, don't piss around with this at all, first contact consumer affairs and fully understand your rights, ask them to tell you how to respond to any dealer belligerence then take it back to the dealer and explain to them what you will do if they don't do fulfil their obligations.
The bike is currently with the dealer for 600 service and attention to the handling. I collect tomorrow. Hopefully they will have done their job and I will have a great machine returned to me. If not...
Ok. Bike handed back today. They say they slacked everything on the forks, wheel out, and reassembled Pretty near straight now, so I will see how it goes...I will allow time for the tyres to settle down to this realignment just in case they had started to wear one-sided. Clunky gearbox? 'Give it time' they said.
How much free play do you have at the clutch lever? It sounds like the clutch is dragging a bit and causing the clunk. It was obvious that your new forks were misaligned in the yokes/triple trees........!
Agreed on the forks alignment. Blame the Thai factory? Mr dealer has set about 2-3 mm slack...so he is thinking along the same lines... I shall put more miles on and maybe it will settle in. My last two Hondas smoothed out after 1,000 miles so we shall see.
