Featured What you been doing with your TRIUMPH today??

I finally got out on my Speed Triple for the first time in about three weeks. The new job is wreaking havoc with my priorities!

Anyway, it's always glorious to ride Speedy and today was no exception. Our little Sunday ride group only rode about 20 miles to breakfast then nearly everyone turned around and went home. I had one taker who agreed ride farther. 114 miles on the clock when I pulled into our driveway.

I've convinced Steve to ride with me again tomorrow as I'm off on Mondays (yay!) . The last photo of Speedy shows him in his outdoor home (boo, hiss!). He's "naked" since I decided to leave him that way until after tomorrow's ride. Then I'll rewrap him in his Nelson-Rigg cover topped off with a silver reflective top layer. It's a process....... As you can see from my TFT, at 99ºF it's still toasty here in the Arizona desert but predictions are for it to cool down some towards next weekend. THAT would be nice.

 

Today I fitted new air filter to 2019 T120. Was going to let local main dealer fit it in upcoming annual service. Then I asked the price , £120 just to fit it ,another £27ish for the filter. Couldn't believe it. So today I stopped myself getting ripped off and saved £120 and fitted it myself. Result.

 

Well, as I mentioned in my post here from yesterday, I left my Speed Triple on the back landing ready to rock 'n' roll for a ride today. That was not to be. We unexpectedly spent four hours at the vet with our boxer, Ellie, who it turns out has a UTI. Of course we had to find a vet clinic that was open on a national holiday. That changed the complexion of the whole day and another ride on Speedy was not in the cards. So here he is all wrapped up again waiting patiently for me to get him back on the road… soon hopefully! This is the reflective silver cover that I mentioned.

 

Hi Sandi, good luck with Ellie. I have three sight hounds, two of which 15+ years, we do worry about our pets.

 

They look decent quality is it just designed for heat or is it waterproof and I'd get a ground anchor a scrote with a decent saw would soon be through the wooden pillar

 

I am not sure there are nearly so many scrotes where @Sandi T lives; we are "blessed" with them in abundance in the UK.....

 

Thanks, @Glenn2926. I appreciate your comments and you are correct that the dog takes priority over(even!) the bikes. Cool that you had boxers. Ellie is my 6th. Yes, we do love our pets so. I will definitely give Ellie a pat from you.

 

The silver cover is not waterproof at all, Mark. Just designed to reflect the intense heat of our desert summers and on into the fall. The black cover underneath that one is waterproof, however. Not too many scrolls in our neighborhood. Plus we live in a gated small community where everybody seems to know everybody's business and notices pretty much everything that happens all the time. And the bike is in our locked walled back yard right under our kitchen window so even though we're both a a bit hard(er) of hearing these days , we would hear a saw in a New York minute. Plus we have Ellie, the Wonder Watch Dog, hard at work guarding our place. Thanks for the suggestion, though! I actually did think of placing a ground anchor so thought through what you thought of when you saw the photo.

 

Well, there are definitely some very scrotie areas in Tucson, @Mrs Visor! But we are blessed to not be right in the middle of those areas. At least not our little housing development.

 

I collected my Striple from my friends' business unit today; not only did they rescue me when I had my puncture, but also went and collected my wheel with new tyre fitted for me from the bike shop I always use without my knowledge and then put the wheel back onto my bike for me. As if that wasn't enough, they collected me when I had finished work and gave me a lift so that I could just ride my bike back as Helmut is away at the moment.

I love that new tyre feeling!

 

Now come on if they were real friends they would of paid for the tyre as well

 

I haven't paid for it yet - the owners of the bike shop are also my friends .

 

You have some really useful friends

 

Nice little 90 mile jaunt before work today, calling in at the Baffle Haus. It was absolutely full, so you had to queue to be parked, I wondered if I had got the day wrong and it was a weekend .

 

Your triple started life from the same place as mine with the prefix VA

 

Perfect riding day, dry and comfortably warm so went for a 150+ miles jaunt around Norfolk and Suffolk. Tested the fuel gauge on the way home and filled up with the gauge showing 8 miles remaining. The 12 litre tank took 11 litres.

 

After my recent Scotland trip, new tyres both ends.
One down, one to go.

 

I hope that you manage to get a bit more breathing space @RevPaul and start to feel better.

 

I have to work tonight and was working most of last night, so Helmut and I popped out for just 100 miles or so today. I took my Striple and Helmut the Tuono. We decided to try a new place - Roadhouse - at Llanwenarth, between Crickhowell and Abergavenny. It used to be the Llanwenarth Hotel but has just reopened after being revamped into a hotel with a cafe that welcomes bikes, cars, anything auto.

It's not quite finished, but is very friendly and welcoming and the food and coffee were really good, so we'll definitely go again.