Featured What you been doing with your TRIUMPH today??

They certainly are spectacular @Sandi T!

 

Awesome, @Dawsy! Looking forward to more photos and info about your new ride.

 

Pulled out the Thruxton and headed out to Errwood Reservior and back lanes of the Derbyshire Dales with a mate on his Scrambler. Beautiful day, warm and very little traffic off the beaten track.


We called at the Cat and Fiddle for a coffee before heading for home and a couple of pints in our local.

 

I'm super happy for you, Dawsy! Nothing like a new bike to make one feel like a little kid again. Looking forward to more piccies! Bummer on the tires (I tried to type that in as tyres but my computer kept auto-correcting it to tires). I did the same with my cruise control module. I had added one to my Low Rider S and should have taken it off to put on the Fat Boy. So of course I paid for a new one and, insult to injury, it's on backorder until August! And I ordered it in January. Live and learn, eh? Congratulations on that beauty of a bike!

 

Really beautiful countryside, @Wessa, and wonderful photos. Sounds (and looks) like a great day out! Are you still loving the new bars on your Thruxton?

 

Absolutely @Sandi T . There is no way I would have taken the Thruxton on the tracks and lanes that we rode with the clip-ons on the bike. It has transformed what I can do with the bike and I love it

 

Hope everything goes well and you're back on two wheels soon.

 

Hello Sandi, good work re “tyres”, here are a couple more, Aluminium is pronounced “Al you min ee um” not “Al oom in um”, Solder is pronounced “Sol der” not “sar der”, we’re allowing you lot to use our language so for pity’s sake put some effort into it

 

Thanks Mate, me too ✋️

 

@Sandi T , you say it as you like..

 

Mrs W is normally always out on the bike with me but she's encouraging me to grab any opportunity to get out solo, just a 50 miler this morning whilst she did the lidl shop, bless her. I would upload a photo but it keeps telling me the file is too big?! So here's one from January in the same spot

 

Enjoyable ride out this morning with my IAM Observer, through Denshaw, Delph, Uppermill and Marsden.

 

I had an absolutely brilliant day with West Mercia Police on their Bike Safe workshop at Defford. It started with a horrible ride there in thick fog, but the day rapidly improved after that! I was slightly worried as I have so little experience but I needn't have been, it was great and I got a huge amount out of it.

Overall my riding was good for my experience level and I made real improvements in cornering and road positioning - getting away from the "DVSA method" that you learn for your bike test and learning how fluid road positioning should be rather than the "set" positions taught for your test and how much easier and fluid cornering is when set up correctly. I had nothing that was of concern to my observer luckily and he said that my bike control, steering and use of speed was good. My main points to work on were changing gear less often (which made a real difference), reading the road further ahead and wider surrounds more for better progress through bends and smooth progress in terms of straight - lining roundabouts and bends, using the opposite side of the road etc when safe to do so. I rode home a much more thinking and fluid rider than I had ridden there - clearly still massive amounts to learn as I gain experience, but this was a day where things just "clicked" in my head and I feel like it was a big stride forward.

Great goody bag too - there was also a Creme Egg in there, seeing as it's Easter weekend .

 

Well done you.. sounds like you got loads out of the day.

 

I really did, so pleased I went.

 

Lack of spark today in the Tiger, bummer. Checked connections etc in the engine running part of the wiring cause oil light, hooter, brake lights were working.
Thought it was the micro unit playing up as I tried a spare and sparks erupted but then stopped again. At least it's not that, phew (£££££) but it may be the plug in connectors that come with the unit. I'll be farting around with it tomorrow as well but getting closer to cure.
Off to the custom thing in the morrow so it'll have to be the standard green T140 as that needs a ride too.

 

A new lease of Mr. Thruxton's life! So glad you kept that bike and are so happy with it now.

 

What an awesome wife Mrs.Pat is to encourage you to get out solo, @PatW! I've met so many guys who "used to ride" but say that now their wives "won't let them". And she not only rides with you but understands how good it is for you to also get out for solo therapy rides. Beautiful photo, BTW. What a good looking bike.

 

What a terrific experience, @Mrs Visor! It sounds like it was really well conducted with helpful, specific feedback that immediately improved your riding skills, knowledge base, and confidence. Awesome! Thanks for your report, too. And who doesn't love a goody bag, particularly one with a Creme Egg inside.