Featured What you been doing with your TRIUMPH today??

As the wife had a post-lunch kip, I nipped off the carb bowls to find they already have stay up floats and new looking needle jets so that saves me a few quid. Happy days!

 

Woke up this morning to find the weather was very unusual - despite the overnight forecast it was bone dry and not that cold.

As I needed to go and look what’s available regarding a new shower tray and had no intention of buying one. I thought sod it, it’ll be easier to get round on the bike. Pulled the Tiger out and had a pleasant few hours running round. No progress on the shower tray but better than trawling through the traffic in the car.

 

I took my 2019 Speed Triple RS to our Triumph dealership recently for its "annual physical" as I call it. YIKES! I did have to get a new battery, but I rode out the door $805 lighter. My services have never cost that much--even excluding the battery cost. Labor charges for both motorcycles and cars have gone through the roof where I live. The going rate at MC dealerships is right around $200 per hour! Maybe I've been in the wrong profession all these years. Well, probably not since I don't know the first thing about actually working on bikes. Anyway, I'm wondering what sort of hourly labor charges the rest of you out there are seeing? I know many of you do your own work but how about those of you that don't? When I got home from the dealership with my bike and told Steve about labor rates and my bill and he replied, "Fun is expensive." I'll say!

 

@Sandi T:
The rate per hour is really expensive. In my area it would be nearly the same. Therefore I always ride to an other province where the prices stayed lower for the last years.

 

Hi @Sandi T here the UK the labour rates vary between the main dealers and the independent bike shops. You can pay from £65 an hour at the local shops up to £100 at the main dealers.

 

I think you would be lucky to find a main dealer at £100 now bud, standard is about £125 so about $170, not too much different over here @Sandi T

 

I’m was going off my last service. I guess when my bike is serviced in the new year I will find out the latest cost

 

Main dealers have to provide a certain standard of showroom, with staff training, customer facilities, toilets, accessories, clothing etc. I guess they've got to cover those costs somehow.

 

After weeks of really bad and ugly weather I took the window of opportunity and did a short ride with my beloved Rocket today.
At lunchtime we had about 3 degrees celsius. I enjoyed it very much. But for the next week's the weather forecast looks not very helpful for bikers. Ice and snow will return again.

 

@Markus at least you managed to grab the opportunity to get out on the Rocket, the weather looks beautiful!

 

Bit of respray on a rather tatty instrument bracket on the T100R today. I didn't have a spanner to reach those recessed bolts so resorted to spraying in situ. It's not perfect but you can't see most of it when the clocks are in place.

 

Just making sure it would start and run like it should this was after a no start issue the other day checked the voltage before starting it and it read 12.75v and she fired up first touch of the button this morning much relieved am I.

Plezier

 

Not exactly doing with my Triumph but of sorts it is triumph related

 

Venhill do a great diy throttle cables kit with various ends and bits for little money ( maybe < £20 comes to mind).

We needed one when replacing a non-autolube single cable for a Spanish TZR50 last year.

Recommended.

 

Been there done that, shower replacement took me 12 months due to good biking weather

 

I’ll not get away with any protracted delays - new tray is here and waiting to be fitted. Just need to coordinate dates with the guy who is giving me a hand but it’ll all be done pre spring

 

I've been promising my Mrs to fit the kitchen for the past four Christmases after extending the room to give her around another third of space done that and fitted that part out but being held up dye to having to go in the loft to update electrics to itchy and hot in the summer and too cold and itchy in the winter maybe the spring will only be itchy

 

Great tip and good website. Thanks

 

Yep been there and done that also ..... had a bit of a water leak in the loft a few years ago .



You can still see in this photo the loft insulation acting like a sponge, slowly releasing its mains water content.

 

Decided to give the tiger a run today. Started first time after standing for circa 8 or 9 weeks.
Left it to warm up before stopping it and putting it back on the trickle charger.
You didn’t think I was going out on the roads with all the salt about did you?