Featured Hello From North Carolina

@GA Forester Welcome to the family. Nice bike great picture thanks for sharing. Yes if you have a problem then let us all here it. Peeps on here are really willing to chip in with advice and help and all it costs is a big thankyou. How's that.

 

Hi and welcome to the forum

 

Greetings from Lincolnshire.

 

Hi there!
Welcome to the forum!
Your bike looks great!

 

Nice Speedy. I have a 2018.

Now, I'm not "casting shade" your way, and this may just be a manifestation of my slight case of OCD. Also, I realize you have other issues to tend to, but I believe your bags are mounted backwards; left on right side and vice versa. Maybe you like your bags mounted that way (personal preference). The way they are now caught my eye (again - the OCD) because I look at things and see the need for them to flow aerodynamically. So, I looked online for photos of Triumph Speedmasters with bags and every one with the same style hard bags had them mounted opposite of the way they are on your bike, that is with the hump and the diagonal side toward the front. I have slouch leather bags, so maybe I should just keep my mouth shut. Feel free to tell me to piss off.

 

That's not my ride! I just pulled a couple pics of Speedys with hard bags off the web. Mine has the red tank and black fenders - no whitewall tires. As I said, I have sloppy, leather, slouch bags.

As for your electrical issues - my mechanical/electric skills date back to the Jurassic period when dinosaurs roamed the Earth and vehicles had generators, ignition points and carburetors. Motorcycles had kick starters. I have not kept up with the modernization of engines with electronic fuel injection, ECUs, etc. I wouldn't know where to begin to try to diagnose your issues, although it does sound like something grounding out somewhere. Gremlins?

Good luck with it, though. I hope they are able to sort it out for you. I'd hate to see you soured on the brand over this.

Please keep us posted.

My Bonnie

 

Now you have me thinking about whitewalls. And I have thought about having my tank repainted to look like yours. I like that color scheme, but I've gotten so many compliments on the red/black combo I've just left it alone.

 

Welcome to the forum. Nice lookig bike you've got there. I like it a lot!!

 

"You got a cute pouch back of the pillion seat"

Chin bag that there is no room for up under the headlamp. Great for storing little stuff that you don't want to have to root for in the big bags (registration, small flashlight, kickstand puck, etc.)

 

Welcome to the forum.

 

No, I'm from Durham, England UK . The nearest I've been to NC is spending a month in and around Poplar Bluff MO back in August.

I've noticed that a lot of placenames in the US are the same as places in England. I'm guessing that the early settlers named those places after their home towns / cities back in Engalnd.

 

Hi there, I own a 2018 Speedmaster. I had an intermittent issue with power in 2022. I was riding on a cross country tour and when I would stop for fuel at a gas station, it would not start, the display would light up but no start. I would fool around with the battery connections, and it would start. It would be fine until the next fuel stop, then the same thing. I then decided to take it to a dealership in Ottawa, and they kindly took it in bypassing the service que. They fixed it in about 20 minutes. They said the battery ground connection was not making good connection. I never had a problem since, but when taking my battery out every winter to charge indoors, I am very careful when reinstalling the battery and keeping those connections immaculately clean.

On another note. I had the Triumph aux power plug accessory installed when I purchased the bike, and this added more extra wires directly to the battery terminals. When these connections get dirty over the year, they can lead to power issues. I have since removed the extra connections on the terminals and connected instead to the aux 12v power plug under the tank. This leaves only one connection per terminal for better continuity.

So that is my story. I've heard several people with same sort of issues and that the ground connection on this bike can cause seemingly mysterious power issues when it can be fixed easily. You may or may not have this kind of problem, but thought I would relate since it might help others as well.

Welcome to the Forum!
Sandra

 

Yes, just walked the bike away from the pumps to free up space for other customers, then took the cover off of battery compartment and tightened the connections. But the same thing happened 2 more times at gas stations.