Featured What you been doing with your TRIUMPH today??

Glad things are looking good so far, @Wessa. And that you got out for a ride…a little moto-therapy!

 

Yikes, @Wire-Wheels! When it rains it pours…and when it snows it REALLY snows! I hope your cabin is ok. And that Lola is patient.

 

Thanks @Sandi T like you say nothing better than a Moro-therapy

 

All gift wrapped and ready for Spain

 

I replaced the baffle in my exhaust today; Helmut informed me last weekend that it was nearing obnoxious. I had only removed it out of curiosity last summer, thought it was really loud and then got used to it and loved it. However I have no wish to be "that" person so have replaced it for now to see what I think. I hadn't realised quite how loud it was until I rode my Fireblade (still on an aftermarket exhaust with baffle out, so not whisper quiet) and then the Striple; when I started it it did occur to me that it was far louder than the 'blade.

 

Looks lovely Wayne.

 

That’s a beauty!

 

lol, obnoxious is such a good way to describe a noisy pipe

I put a GR Moto end can on my Yamaha last summer and saw a small child holding their ears Needless to say, it now has a DB Killer

 

I am using up annual leave this week (miscalculation issue by HR when my contract changed last year!) so got out for a few hours this morning and had a lovely blast with a brief stop for coffee at British Camp in the Malvern Hills; the sun even shone for the first hour or so .

 

They were blissfully quiet today as well; I went through to Powick and then on the A44 to Leominster - had a lovely clear run apart from through Malvern and Powick.

 

Not actually today but yesterday…….

So I did a video / sound clip but I couldn’t upload it to here, sorry @Mrs Visor .
Anyway it’s pretty loud and will need quietening for MOT time if nothing else so I’d bought so db killers, drilled the cans so they fit and now have the option of loud or slightly quieter. I’ll see how it sounds when out on the road in April.

Also out on the Explorer for a couple of hours around Derbyshire. Was late afternoon by then so roads were pretty quiet, temperatures also dropped a bit- was down to 3.5degrees coming over from Buxton. Those eBay bargain Keis heated gloves were a good investment!

 

Thank you - I am just very impressed with your ability to make them!!

 

@Havit
Looks great, Wayne! Enjoy the riding season.

 

stripped the front end off and regreased the headstock bearings. Fitted new brake pads ready for my track days at the end of April.

 

I took my Speed Triple RS out for a little solo ride this afternoon, a 50-mile ride in glorious weather on this last day of March.

Still a bit of snow on the ver tippyy top of the Catalinas!


A little stop for an energy drink at the local Minute Market and gas station after doing the loop in Saddlebrooke, a "master planned" housing development and golf course about 20 miles north of Tucson.



I've stopped here many times but never realized that the Minute Market also houses a US Post Office!



Back home around 4:30pm. We'll pay for these lovely spring temperatures come July when it hits 110ºF!

 

Not strictly speaking today, but just got back from 3 days riding the Street Triple at Cartagena.

 

There’s a bit of a gap between the frame rails where I’d taken the X-pipe off the Thruxton.

So last week I made a sump guard / gap hider from some steel plate.



And fitted it today.
I’m not 100% happy with it, was cheap and easy to make …….and that’s sort of how it looks. I’ll leave it on but may make or buy something else in due course


……in other news, I’ve taxed it today and looking forward to going out on it tomorrow

 

@Sandi T that weather and scenery look gorgeous!

 

That looks fine in the photo, but understand sometimes photos don’t show the whole story.