What Have You Being Doing With Your Non-triumph Today?

Never mind your TDM, give us some pics of your GT380 ( I think I saw somewhere you said you had one ? ). Oh and if you're going to the next GMU, perhaps you could take the 380 ?

 

Here she is mate at 27 mpg plus oil she won't be going to the GMU

 

That is a peach of a bike @Rocker I loved the Suzi 2 strokes that lingering smell of 2 stroke and the sound and cleaning out the silencers with caustic soda, I forgot to tighten one of the baffle bolts once and on max chat the ruddy thing shot out like an Exocet and bounced of a car, good old days.

 

I think that is true gold, @JtC.

 

Wow, you got some major detail in that photo of your old clutch cable, Rocker! How'd you take that one-handed?

 

Just held it with one of my big germans and took it with the other

 

Nothing like a beautiful retro stroker to warm your cockles. Looks good, sounds good and smells great! I saw one of these not long after they were launched and just thought, "Wow, Ram Air System, what's that!".

 

I love it you can drop her down a couple and leave your mates in a cloud of two stroke smoke

 

Ah that brings back memories.

 

Poetry.

 

I had its big brother - a 1972 GT550J in blue (TWR 15L) - the one with the 4ls front brake, which replaced my '69 Bonneville. Bought it brand new from Ewbanks in Pontefract (Sept '72 from the second batch of bikes into the UK) and what a lovely bike it was! It too could get below 30mpg!! In around 35,000 miles only two things went wrong ..... starter sprag clutch failed (it stayed that way - kickstart still worked!) and a piston ring locating peg went awol when a mate borrowed it to go to the Isle of Man on. He was in the trade and got it rebored and a full set of pistons and rings etc for next to nowt.
Happy days!!

 

Upgraded the Haemmerlin with a zinc bucket. Stainless bolts obv.
@Dozers Dad , what tyres do I need now?

 

Fitted a carbon fibre belly pan on the gixxer. 3 hours of sweating taking the body work off and then refitting it all but worth it to save 30 grams of weight!!!

 

I make sure I spend an hour on the bog before a fast ride to shed more than 30g of weight

 

Might be a few grams more. I’ve took a fair bit of skin off the knuckles as well !!

 

Learnt that patience is a virtue with my Honda 750 SOHC race replica ish thingy, not used it for 6 months but fuelled it up last weekend only to find fuel pouring from No4 carb , sticking float I guessed, after much tapping on the float bowl with a screwdriver handle it still poured out, I was about to remove the fairing to get at the carbs but thought I’ll leave it to see if the new fuel frees it off, came back to it today, no leaks!, so patience is a virtue !

 

That looks stunning. I bet it sounds awesome

 

Dry gasket

 

Thanks Wessa, here it is on the Dyno a few years ago when I was sorting the fuelling, I’ve removed some of the baffling since but this gives an idea.

 

Well, I did this yesterday--but the forum was down.

Finally got the stock reflectors removed from the forks of my new H-D Low Rider S. A hair dryer and a bit of fishing line can work wonders. And isn't it funny how such a simple "mod" can make the whole bike look every so much better. Tidy, clean, sweet!