Hi, I am DJ from Atherstone , Warwickshire's town of culture. I have been a biker from the age of 16, being interested in following the m/c racing and touring, I have just retired from work on reaching 64 on 22/7. Most of my rides tours are now done alone. My first modern Triumph was a Sprint ST 1050 purchased at the end of 2012 with 6k miles and every available extra fitted. I toured the UK & Europe extensively on this bike, plus a tour in Morocco. This has now been sold at 37k miles and replaced with a more relaxed and wrist friendly Tiger Sport mid 2018 with 7k miles. I followed the extensive RiDE magazine high mileage tour of Spain with the 2nd half of their Central Spain & Portugal Tour bolted onto the end in September 2018, 3,800 miles in 15 days plus 2 days on the ferry. The TS proved a comfy competent tourer, if a bit top heavy compared to the Sprint. If you are keen on day trips & touring I can recommend the RiDE routes and tours as a high quality free resource. When I phoned the RiDE office to say how good the Spanish Tour was, the now former editor, Simon Wier recommended I follow that up with a big French Tour, which I have pencilled in for September 2019. Simon is currently on a Big Stupid Trip of a Lifetime, you can follow progress via his web site. I also have a 2012 675 Street Triple R, purchased November 2014. This has to be the most amazingly competent all round machine I have ever owned or ridden. How does the 765 R compare to the 675R? I would be interested on spirited riding tyre life feedback. After running PR4's and 023's I have ran Roadtech 01's on all 3 bikes. 3 pairs on the sprint, 1 pair each on the TS & STR. Great steering, comfort and grip, wet or dry. Lifespan is the main concern. The rear is flatted off at 4k - 4.5k loaded touring miles on the Sprint and TS, 5k on the STR. This works out at 5p/mile. I have met guys who claimed 8k from PR4's fitted to a TS, but they were very steady riders on the passes I followed them on. Having worked in the declining UK automotive supply sector for 35 years, including supplying British made valve train components to Triumph, it is great to see a British OEM competing with the best worldwide. If John Bloor was a banker or retailer he would have been knighted by now, in the UK entrepreneurial engineers and manufacturing are not valued, cherished or rewarded by the government . If the bikes continue to serve me well, I will be supporting Triumph into my retirement. DJ
Welcome aboard from one Dave to another, hope you'll enjoy the forum, we will of course need pic's of your steeds
Welcome along DJ and may I wish you a long and happy retirement. Well done on a fabulous intro, pop a couple of pics up when you get a minute. I agree it’s great to see a stand alone British bike brand up there with the rest (Japanese, mainly) tho I’m fairly new myself to Triumph’s having had all jap bikes since I was 16. Regarding tyre life on the Roadtec’s I’d consider myself a brisk rider when the conditions allow and have done a couple of tours on my bike in the last couple of years and I recently changed the rear after 7500 miles at which point it was still legal just a bit flat leading to less than perfect steering, the front lasted 8000 miles and again was legal but I was having to use a lot of pressure on the bars to get the bike to go where I wanted. Ride safe and enjoy the next tour.
Welcome to a great forum, DJ. Great to read about your bikes and your riding. The RiDE routes and tours sounds terrific. As others have requested, we'd love to see some pics!
Hi DJ and welcome to the forum enjoyed your introduction. Having good wear on my Avon cobras at 9000km so far
Thanks for the welcomes to the forum, please see the Triumph Triple Trio photo. Notice a common thread for all 3 bikes? This was taken just hours before the Sprint was viewed and purchased by a private buyer, so now I just have the 1050 TS and 675 STR. Regarding 01 tyres, I will try changing the rear and see if I can get 2 rears to 1 front. I don't consider myself to be aggressive with the throttle, but if others get 7.5k from a rear and I consistently only get 4.5k it mast be me (I check pressures regularly). Does anyone fit the Heavy Weight M/C variant of 01's on a TS? DJ
Astonishing! Warwickshire has a town of culture? Amazing. Mind you I went to Wigtown in Galloway recently. Advertised as ' Scotland's book town'. What on earth are they all reading elsewhere? But WTF....I'm in Tunbridge Wells. As my brother Dodgy Doug Of Dartford once quipped to a visiting American who told him that " This must be the a**hole of the Western world. " I take it you're just passing through it!"
Hi, I always say Atherstone is Warwicksire's town of culture because all the Council Tax cash gets spent on historic Warwick and Stratford upon Avon, not a little old ex Hatting and Coal Mining town like Atherstone. I did 17 years down the local pit myself till the industry was shut down and the hats went all over the world. Lady Diana (remember her?) had several in her collection. There was a large roman fort and settlement in Mancetter, the village next to Atherstone.This being one of the possible locations for Bodecia's battle. We have electric lights and gas now too!
