Featured What you been doing with your TRIUMPH today??

We have twins! First day out on the new (to me) 2020 RS today. What a bike!!! Here it is, in its natural habitat on this side of the pond…

 

Working from home with an early finish again, popped out for a quick ride and coffee at Dom's before I did some very exciting housework!

 

Excellent! I'd wager you enjoyed the ride more than the housework!

 

OOOOOOOH housework ! you lucky lass. I retired two years before my wife and the deal was I had to do all the cleaning etc for those two years. Best years of my life.

 

Easy horn upgrade.

Bought a 500 Hz, PIAA horn on EBAY. $42.99 with free shipping (the single unit, not the dual setup). It arrived today and I installed it. Easy install. I disconnected the stock horn and identified the hot lead with a voltmeter (black wire). The instructions recommend installing the horn with the opening down. Apparently, it's sensitive to water infiltration. The strut coming off the PIAA wasn't positioned to allow the opening to point down due to a tab on the stock horn mount. The instructions advise not to loosen the screw fastening the strut to the back of the horn, so you can't reposition it. I figured I could mill off the tab on the horn mount, or notch out the strut on the PIAA, I chose to notch the strut on the horn. Notched the strut out with a Dremel and it allowed for enough of a downward cant. It's a good bit louder than the stock horn and sounds more like a blaring horn than the stock Roadrunner "meep meep."

 

Commute for me today, pleasant ride there and back in this nice weather .

 

I had some clothing to return to Sportsbikeshop and the local shops acting as drop-of points for collection refused to take them because the original box I’d reused was ‘too big to store’. So I butchered the box to make things small enough to fit on bike and return in person. So today I did 200 miles around sunny countryside with a stop at the Kirton store.

 

Went to the Super Sausage on the A5 for breakfast and this little blue beauty turned up.

 

That is very nice. Polished to within an inch of it's life. Who wouldn't want that stashed in the corner of the garage

 

Bombed up the road to check that the electronic speedo is working. Speedo now reads 1 mile.

 

@Helmut Visor and I (him on the Nightstorm) rode to Ebbw Vale today for me to have my suspension set up - about 100 miles there and back including the test ride after Will had made the changes. I’ll do a review of it so won’t say any more here, but the difference it has made is incredible; it’s like riding a completely different bike (just when I thought I couldn’t love it any more… ).

Link to the place for anyone who doesn’t want to read the review; you couldn’t meet a nicer, more genuine and passionate person: https://swbracing.com/?fbclid=IwAR0oPEO6FcU6VMvbTCoy-VaBNQR04dVjAtwdGxjP3nJvGXDBbZlArOzLGgk

 

I washed both of them and lubed the chains...

 

Appreciate the time you take to comment on my Suzuki, when you have so many fantastic projects on the go.

 

A break in the rain meant time for a group ride.


Meet up for coffee and gas

Regroup at Te Huna

Te Poi country tavern - the big cow

 

That Suzi of yours is really nice. A keeper for sure, and don't change the colour.

Sometimes the projects don't seem that fantastic, some fight every inch of the way back to roadworthyness. (As you are very well aware ).

I tell them stories of the big hammer I have in the shed to give them a scare now and again if they are playing me up.......

 

Have you got a thread on that, James? Did I miss that?

 

If I remember correctly, we both have the same bikes. I have already reset my suspension to the comfort settings as even with the rear preload at minimum from the factory I was still getting bounced out of the seat too much. So will be really interested to see what they did to yours.

 

I put a thread here: https://www.thetriumphforum.com/threads/swb-racing.35579/

Will did exactly what you wouldn't expect - he said rather then being "booksmart" he'd go with his gut / experience. I think we are similar weights as well @Baza (I am around 58kg with normal clothes) and my rear preload was also at minimum from the factory. I'll not bore everyone with a long explanation on here but it's on the review thread.

 

Crossed my first fjord! I could hear the superbikes at Cadwell Park as I took this photo....

on my way to Willingham Woods for lunch

 

Checking the 900 Tigger Pro over, ready for riding to the South of France next weekend