Featured What you been doing with your TRIUMPH today??

Went to the Barton Heliport bike meet tonight on the Tiger with Mrs Boothman. It was the first time this year and there were a fair few there, but noticed the actual veterans building has gone

 

I took advantage of a window in the weather and just did an 80 mile ish round trip to Midwest Moto for a nose at the lovely bikes and kit and to get a coffee and another stamp in the passport. I like coming here because you always get a companion or three when you sit down ....

 

Ever since I got the new Moto Guzzi few weeks ago the Speed Triple R was being neglected. So, on Saturday I changed oil and filter for the 6,000 mile service and took it for a little ride today. What a wonderful machine, and I'm glad there's not very much overlap between it and the Moto Guzzi - I almost always have more than one bike in the garage and they're always very different machines.

 

Went for a ride out into Yorkshire, called off at Dent, it has been a long while since I last visited, so thought I would call on the way to other Yorkshire delights.

 

Good morning!
I had a great, exciting but also exhausting offroad-tour with my mate.
The Tiger is so capable, it‘s amazing. In the end the positive terminal rattled off which gave me a bit of shit for the end of the ride but the rest was absolutely amazing. Riding offroad in South Africa is just great!
And: the INSTA360 X5 which I just got new really is an amazing camera.

 

Me sitting here waiting for some tyres to be delivered. You know its right the more you watch the clock the slower it gets.

 

Thunderbird passed its MOT with flying colours early this morning followed by nice early morning cool but sunny ride

 

Great Monday morning ride from Bend to Mt. Bachelor. Great way to start the week!

 

Stunning views!

 

finally got round to fitting my shock factory shock absorber to my speedy

 

Nice license plate.

 

Just looking, it's still pissing down out there !
Bought some shyte from a cheap shyte shop, ( sort of a walk in Temu ) called V7 De - Rust .. 200ml $2.00, haha .. so gonna have a wee go at the chrome spokes that have got a little rust on the Bonnie ... just the odd one here @ there, was told it's common ? so ... ?
And check the tyres .. twice now the front has lost pressure a bit, and the rear for the first time ?
Sure I seen somewhere (here ? ) others discussing this, with the spoked wheels ?

 

Yesterday cleaned the bike and polished it then tried the old flasher relay to see if the clock would work again but nope so put the car one back in new correct one should be here in 10 days then lubed the drive chain. Cannot believe the handbook says it's supposed to be done every 300km .......................... Oh well.

Then yesteday evening took her out for a little run ended up in the town down the hill which is 8km from home and decided to stop and have a drink ................ Orange juice Bulgaria is a zero tolerance on alcohol not that a lot of the locals take much notice but I am not risking it that's for sure. Had a chat with some of the locals there was a group of 4 plus the bar person. Despite b
eing here for a few years this is the first time I have actually stopped in the town in the evening and gone to a bar it was a nice bar too will certainly going back. So this morning just went out to clean the bugs off the bike and there were a lot of tiny little ones hundreds and hundreds of them .................... all clean again that's 550km now covered going nowhere!

Plezier

 

Picked a new one up!
This is getting out of hand, now there are two of them.

 

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A breezy run out over Holme Moss this evening.
The TVM in low cloud....



Finally found out what was causing an annoying buzzing sound on the LHS of the bike at just over 2000rpm. It only happens in a 1-200 rpm window so is obviously vibration related.
It had me foxed for a while but it turns out It was the flippin' badge on the clutch cover. It's a thin aluminium plate riveted to what looks like a hollow cast alloy back plate. I filled the gap with silicone and that's cured it.



I think I also have a problem with the tank breather in that the tank is pressurising when it gets warm from engine heat when parked up after a run or in the Sun. Releasing the cap gives a loud hiss and strong smell of fuel vapour.
That's not right. Apparently there's a recall out for the purge valve in the EVAP system which routes vapour from the tank, via an anti spill valve, into either the airbox or a charcoal cannister depending on how the ECU feels. I intend to remove the cannister, purge valve and associated tubing and vent the tank to atmosphere via the spill valve, just like the other bikes in the garage. If I get an ECU error light up I'll just leave the purge valve connected but doing nothing. It's all part of the Euro 5 crap no doubt.

 

That same badge arrangement has been commented on with the Speed and Scrambler 400's, causing engine noise/reverberation. Same solution, squirt in some silicone....