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That is real bad luck mate. I feel for you

 

Ahhh, sorry for my confusion, @Eldon. I'm sure your son was very upset, especially because he took such great care with the bike and had just put on some replacement parts. The best news is that he didn't get hurt. Bikes can be replace, people cannot.

 

@Eldon, pardon my cluelessness, but what's an ER6?

 

Kawasaki 650 twin
A bit of a step down in performance from the STR but a good commuter bike choice. Plenty about (UK) so easy for spares etc.

 

Today I took my Street Triple and Helmut his Tuono and we went to the Touchdown Cafe at Wellesbourne which was absolutely packed as the Vulcan was about to do something (not sure what!!) and the The Wild Olive cafe. I then came home and Helmut headed on to work. 161 miles done for me and very similar for Helmut. We had never been the the Wild Olive before, I found it as part of my stamp - hunting for the Bike and Brew Passport and the food and coffee were excellent, I had halloumi, avocado, lettuce and tomato in a sourdough sandwich - very tasty indeed!!

No photos taken (I know…we never went!!). I realised from my log I keep today that we have both done the best part of 1000 miles this week on bikes.

 

Very cool, @RevPaul! Sounds like a nice turnout for your "neighborhood" DGR. Hope it was fun and that lots of funds were raised. Looks like perfect weather, too. Plus some tunes. Can't beat that!

 

Put another 150+ miles on the clock which takes me close to the first 600 mile service booked for Thursday (Speed Twin 900).

 

A few of the many photos we have received from our day at Blyton Park!

 

To make the most of the recent good weather here in the South West of the UK I managed to get out on the Speed 400 for a few hours on Tuesday afternoon and took a trip to Portland Bill, a lighthouse on the southern tip of Portland, Dorset.
Beautiful blue sky, dead calm seas and warm weather. Rather different today as it is much cooler and light rain all morning!

 

Beautiful day here in Edinburgh, at triumph getting 600mile service done.
Then the turn by turn took me off the motorway outside Glasgow, back roads though east Kilbride Newton Mearns, single track roads,farm tracks, fields,,etc,40 mins longer the sticking to motorway,,grrrrr won't be using that again,micky mouse 70s technology.

 

Got the 600 mile service done at Norfolk Triumph. As always that is the only service I will let a dealer do and from now on it's owner servicing. Getting the first service done by Triumph effectively gets me a 1 year warranty after which I take my chances.

 

Excellent, @Mrs Visor! Thanks for sharing these great photos!

 

I installed the factory heated grips yesterday after work. I downloaded the instructions for the part and it was very straight forward. I encountered a few differences from the instructions, but mostly consistent (e.g., I didn't have to remove the brake master cylinder). Plug 'n Play as well. Took for a spin afterward and tested them out. TOASTY! $335 seems a hefty price, but will be well worth it to me. In my location summer is quite short and I like riding well into the shoulder seasons. Even summers can see morning temps in the 30's and 40's F. Triumph really did a disservice to the T120 when they stopped offering these as standard. Some folks say they exchanged the heated grips for cruise control. Fair enough, but my nearest interstate highway is a two hour ride away. I would rather take a sharp stick to the eye rather than ride interstate highway. To each their own.

 

@TelemarkTumalo I'd take heated grips over cruise control any day!

 

Started with hooking up Tune ECU, checked map, balanced throttles, cleaned chain then took some photos.......

 

Can anyone help me find the discussion on tubes losing air .. was reading it recently.. but ???
Hadn't ridden the T120 (2016) for around a month and discovered 20 Ib in the rear, and 9 Ib in the front !!!!

Apparently not unusual, but there was some interesting stuff about this problem .. and what to chuck in the rubbish ?

 

I have to disagree with you on this one, @Mrs Visor! I'd take cruise control any day. Perhaps that's because I'm older than you and my hands and wrists are starting to give me problems. I use it on many roads in addition to freeways which I also avoid like the plague. Oh yeah, and maybe it's also because I live in the desert where it's hot about eight months out of the year.

 

Your preference is quite understandable @Sandi T when you also factor in the style of roads common to each country.
UK, cruise control might be handy, now and again, but we are a small island and the roads are twisty in comparison.

 

I use my CC in 30mph limits, on my BMW Rt, near me there is a village thats about 1 mile long, 30 all the way but looks like a 40 or more as very few houses beside the road, go to place for speed traps as well.....

 

I use my heated grips an awful lot . It's hot for about eight days of the year here, rather than months . The roads around me are also pretty twisty so cruise control would likely not get used much at all. Horses for courses .