Good morning, I recently purchased a 2016 T120 .After riding it home for 330 miles I looked closely at the tyres and someone had fitted tubeless tyres and put tubes in them ? is it safe to do this.The tyres are close to the end of life so I am going to replace them with Tubed tyres.Anyway my other bike is a 2007 BMW GS 1200R What a contrast in riding, both a lot of fun. I was born in 1956 and I used to buy the MCN every week with my pocket money when I was 6 years old.The pages had lots of pictures of Bonneville's in here I am aged 69 and I saw this and couldn't resist.Even my financial advisor (the Mrs) said go on get it.
@Dogslow I did the same on my two Bonneville's. Didn't make one bit of difference to the riding or handling. And if you are changing soon just ride and enjoy feel how the tyres feel. And if they are near changing someone must have had confidence in them. And welcome to the family. Its a cracking bike. Thanks for the picture.
Love the bike! Lucky man to have a savvy and understanding "financial advisor"!! My long-suffering bride was equally supportive, even with the second Triumph purchase (Sprint GT 1050 and Trophy SE 1215). Naturally, she loves the passenger seat on a nice day, even in the snowy Rocky Mountains (see my photo)! Enjoy!
Welcome to the forum. Many very knowledgeable people on here, so just ask. With regard to your tyres, as you are in for new ones anyway I would recommend that once the tyres are off of the rims you get the centre well sealed so that you can fit tubeless tyres. This then enables you to deal with punctures when out and about. Otherwise your option is to pump some gloopy liquid into the tube and trusting that it will find the puncture and allow you to continue the journey. My tubeless repair kit has even allowed me to repair punctures on the tyres that I have on my X3. All of the tyre depots that I took the car to said no, new tyre needed. But the tyres are run flats and the car has a TPMS that I can display on the dash for constant monitoring if I wish, so a diy repair has allowed me eventually get to the tyre’s end of life and fit new ones all round. After all at £250 a pop it’s worth diying it otherwise I might have fallen foul of the need to change another perfectly good tyre in order to abide by the tread depth requirements between front and back tyres (2mm difference max) to protect the xDrive system.