Featured Customising Your Bike. Subjective Of Course But...

I guess it must be me but I love this mod. Ticks all my boxes.
Although I only started riding at age 73 - now 75, it seems to me that the only important thing about riding is that you ARE riding, regardless of the bike, the mods, the clothes, where you go, how far you go or whether you can handle a wrench or not.

I'm probably a bit of a poser but I do ride every day, about 350 miles per week. The best part of my day. I have my 2019 T100 tweaked the way I like it and i don't think anything looks out or place or bolted on.

Riding a bike is not a private club but open to all.

 

I guess it must be me but I love this mod. Ticks all my boxes.
Although I only started riding at age 73 - now 75, it seems to me that the only important thing about riding is that you ARE riding, regardless of the bike, the mods, the clothes, where you go, how far you go or whether you can handle a wrench or not.

I'm probably a bit of a poseur but I do ride every day, about 350 miles per week. The best part of my day.

I have my 2019 T100 tweaked the way I like it and i don't think anything looks out of place or bolted on.

Riding a bike is not a private club but open to all.

 

I don't get this real biker bollox. When it's based on the looks of the rider, a waistcoat, beard turned up jeans brand new Triumph is the same fashion statement as a cut, faded tee shirt, smelly oily jeans and 20 year old Triumph. Why is one a "real" biker, B.S

A "real" biker is one who's bike is there only form of transport used 365 days a year, come rain, snow or shine, so probably 80% of us on here are not real bikers, despite having only three teeth, long hair but bald, an unkempt beard, having been riding 50 years doesn't make you anymore authentic, just shabby. Maybe patch clubs are the Bike Shed for poor people.

Nowt wrong with dropping £20k on a bike and riding a few hundred miles a year if you can afford it, same as nowt wrong with owning five bikes.

As for bike hates, three I'm afraid, (1) gotta be top boxes, regardless of the bike type why stick a crate on it, get a friggin car, stick practical up your poop tube, No bike ever looked better with a portaloo on the back, just take them off now (2) these Steve McQueen and Guy Martin lovey's. One was a mediocre actor who happened to like bikes, the other some weird looking northern monkey who occasionally rides stuff fast. (3) the Triumph Bond edition Scrambler, unless you're ten years old who the bejesus wants a fictitious movie character themed motorbike, when I see one I shall do as I do when I see the Guy Martin Great Escape bike - laugh out loud and pity the owner for having no class and friends who would have advised him he looks like a dick.

I'll get my coat, which by the way is a Belstaff that matches my turned up Resurgence jeans, Fuel waistcoat and hand made BST boots and gloves, clearly not a real bike.

 

I like to give a balanced opinion, and so do I

 

I grew up with close family member in a fairly notorious 1% patch club, sadly no longer with us, he had the patch and ring for services rendered, post an all expenses paid stay at her majesty's pleasure, so have a good sense of their operating model, I was as you should by know being ironic and controversial. As for snobbery, hell yes, if I could afford it I'd be, but sadly a peasant, soon to be an unemployed peasant which is a bugger

 

Made me titter, not heard that for a while, I used to work for a bloke who referred to his team as his Knob Jockeys, cant get way with that in these PC days

 

There is also an element that is lacking in the discussion as well, the bike itself. On my ST3 i put short adjustable levers on and wouldnt ever take them off. My Sprint came with some already fitted and the brakes felt terrible and i bought standard levers in desperation after rebuilding calipers off the site that shall not be named to try and help and they certainly did.
So which one of me is judged? ST3 owner with flashy levers or Sprint owner who dont know what they are missing?

 

To customise or not to customise, that is the question my fellow triumph owners, the bike manufacturers are restricted by safety & emission laws that restrict what they can achieve in design. i am in the school that if a bike is not used to commute/work then surely customising to suit your own taste is the right of every biker, see if you can spot the non OEM bits on my "Bonnie"

 

Non OEM bits :
Tail Tidy
Paddock Stand Bobbins
Short cone slip ons
Clutch and Brake levers
Fly screen
De-Cat? Would imagine with short cones

OEM bits :
Front and Rear indicators
Rear Shocks
Chain Guard
Throttle body covers (or did you paint them?)
Engine head bolts
Oil filler cap
Tank pad
CNC brake reservoir
Front forks
Front and Back wheels
Front brake (Cant see rear)
Head light bezel

Sump Guard? Cant see really. Could be OEM or non
Booster Plug?
Throttle Spacers?

Regards

 

Non OEM bits :
Tail Tidy
Paddock Stand Bobbins
Short cone slip ons
Clutch and Brake levers
Fly screen
De-Cat? Would imagine with short cones

OEM bits :
Front and Rear indicators
Rear Shocks
Chain Guard
Throttle body covers (or did you paint them?)
Engine head bolts
Oil filler cap
Tank pad
CNC brake reservoir
Front forks
Front and Back wheels
Front brake (Cant see rear)
Head light bezel

Sump Guard? Cant see really. Could be OEM or non
Booster Plug?
Throttle Spacers?

Regards

 

Mops, X-Pipe in the schedule of works, the black throttle body covers are genuine Triumph, rear braking is OEM, sump guard is in the mancave ready for fitting when i do the X=Pipe, booster & throttle spacers on the to do list.

 

The front mudguard could be a bit of a problem, i want to keep the OEM item but manufacture brackets to suit the Ohlin's fork legs,,any suggestions

 

Thruxton R, mud guard brackets could possibly work with a Speed Twin original mudguard. I can check dimensions today and let you know.

 

Cheers mops

 

i hate all these live to ride add on's high bars no front mudguards and Henry Cole bobbers. small speedo's that only go up to 80mph crosses and skulls and of course exhaust wrap on new pipes