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What a grand experience, @Mrs Visor! How cool that you did a track day and that you were on your own bike. It sounds like you had great fun! Looking forward to some more photographs when you see the pics from the track photographer.

I remember that "buzz" about which you spoke from back when I did a Keith Code Superbike School weekend in Las Vegas. We didn't ride our own bikes, though, and were on BMW S1000RR's. I also thought that it was one of the best things I'd done on a bike--and still do! It really is a growth experience, eh? Cool that you get to do a Part 2 in July!

Here's a link from a thread I posted on the forum back when I did track school. The weekend was a 60th birthday gift from my hubby.

https://www.thetriumphforum.com/threads/keith-code-california-superbike-school-experience.20902/

 

Thanks @Sandi T, that looks and sounds as if it was great, I can't claim that my track experience took place in Las Vegas though!!

 

It was not me @Sandi T but the bike had moved on to my eldest son about 6 months ago, he was very lucky that day although obviously he couldn't see that at the time.
He was upset about it as he really loved that bike and was looking after it well including recently putting Michelin Road 6's on it and we'd replaced the stator and regulator.

Once I'd removed the front sprocket and oil seal the outcome was inevitable.

We sold it complete a few nights ago, fully declaring the damage and stated to the buyer that we could show him it ran.
Very hard to accept that the engine was basically scrap when it instantly started on the button from cold and sounded like it did with the baffle less Arrow cans.

He stripped it the following day and sent pictures of the internals. Basically the whole gear set and shafts are trash but I fear the bearing housing will have scrapped the crankcases.

 

Looks like it was the gearbox that went bang first. If it seized it's lucky that the chain snapped or the back wheel would have locked up.

 

Now you say it, it makes sense. I can't see how a chain snapping could lunch a gearbox. The other way round, yes. It would also explain why there wasn't more peripheral damage as there was when it happend to me, as there would have been no drive through the chain from the engine if the gearbox had seized. the chain would have just flopped off.

I had a gearbox seizure on my very first ride on a brand new bike a few years ago. I won't say what bike it was because the factory and the dealer where very good about it. They replaced it with a brand new bike that was a 16 plate rather than the discounted end-of-year 15 I'd bought, so in theory I could have turned round and sold it for more than I paid for it. And they threw in a few hundred quid's worth of credits at the dealership if I didn't mention it on social media, so I won't.
It was a complete one-off which had never happened before or since and was down to human error at the factory. Someone had fitted an extra shim on one of the gear shafts (probably two were stuck together) so that the circlip which should have held everything in place couldn't locate in it's slot and eventually all the dogs just floated off the shaft and everything jammed up solid. I'd only ridden about fifteen miles and I reckon it was the assmebly grease that kept everything in place that far. It was lucky it did because I was in a 30 mph zone at the time and I got an instant rear wheel lock-up and left a black line on the road. Given that the bike in question could do 90 mph in sixth gear within permitted running in revs, the result could have been fatal.
The person responsible at the factory lost their job but I could have lost my life.

 

All possibilities chaps and ultimately it was a very lucky escape.

My son has gone and bought an ER6 today for his daily work commute as he was stopping at ours to make things easier ( for him). At least I'll get a better lie in than 04:30 now before I go to work

 

That is real bad luck mate. I feel for you

 

Ahhh, sorry for my confusion, @Eldon. I'm sure your son was very upset, especially because he took such great care with the bike and had just put on some replacement parts. The best news is that he didn't get hurt. Bikes can be replace, people cannot.

 

@Eldon, pardon my cluelessness, but what's an ER6?

 

Kawasaki 650 twin
A bit of a step down in performance from the STR but a good commuter bike choice. Plenty about (UK) so easy for spares etc.

 

Chester DGR 2025. Approximately 80 or so of us. I'll write up a little more tomorrow (work permitting) in the DGR 2025 thread I started last week. Glorious weather for a short ride, fabulous group of Distinguished gentlemen, ladies and bikes.



The blue Bagger R18 in front of my Bonnie had Marshall speakers built into the lid tops of the panniers .

 

Today I took my Street Triple and Helmut his Tuono and we went to the Touchdown Cafe at Wellesbourne which was absolutely packed as the Vulcan was about to do something (not sure what!!) and the The Wild Olive cafe. I then came home and Helmut headed on to work. 161 miles done for me and very similar for Helmut. We had never been the the Wild Olive before, I found it as part of my stamp - hunting for the Bike and Brew Passport and the food and coffee were excellent, I had halloumi, avocado, lettuce and tomato in a sourdough sandwich - very tasty indeed!!

No photos taken (I know…we never went!!). I realised from my log I keep today that we have both done the best part of 1000 miles this week on bikes.

 

Very cool, @RevPaul! Sounds like a nice turnout for your "neighborhood" DGR. Hope it was fun and that lots of funds were raised. Looks like perfect weather, too. Plus some tunes. Can't beat that!

 

Put another 150+ miles on the clock which takes me close to the first 600 mile service booked for Thursday (Speed Twin 900).

 

A few of the many photos we have received from our day at Blyton Park!

 

To make the most of the recent good weather here in the South West of the UK I managed to get out on the Speed 400 for a few hours on Tuesday afternoon and took a trip to Portland Bill, a lighthouse on the southern tip of Portland, Dorset.
Beautiful blue sky, dead calm seas and warm weather. Rather different today as it is much cooler and light rain all morning!

 

Beautiful day here in Edinburgh, at triumph getting 600mile service done.
Then the turn by turn took me off the motorway outside Glasgow, back roads though east Kilbride Newton Mearns, single track roads,farm tracks, fields,,etc,40 mins longer the sticking to motorway,,grrrrr won't be using that again,micky mouse 70s technology.

 

Got the 600 mile service done at Norfolk Triumph. As always that is the only service I will let a dealer do and from now on it's owner servicing. Getting the first service done by Triumph effectively gets me a 1 year warranty after which I take my chances.

 

Excellent, @Mrs Visor! Thanks for sharing these great photos!

 

I installed the factory heated grips yesterday after work. I downloaded the instructions for the part and it was very straight forward. I encountered a few differences from the instructions, but mostly consistent (e.g., I didn't have to remove the brake master cylinder). Plug 'n Play as well. Took for a spin afterward and tested them out. TOASTY! $335 seems a hefty price, but will be well worth it to me. In my location summer is quite short and I like riding well into the shoulder seasons. Even summers can see morning temps in the 30's and 40's F. Triumph really did a disservice to the T120 when they stopped offering these as standard. Some folks say they exchanged the heated grips for cruise control. Fair enough, but my nearest interstate highway is a two hour ride away. I would rather take a sharp stick to the eye rather than ride interstate highway. To each their own.