Trophy Well Picked Her Up And Rode Her Home

Rob the Scott · Jun 9, 2025

Let me offer two bits of advice from my 6 years of owning (and 30,000kms of riding) an 2011 Sprint GT and 2 years of riding (10,000kms) a 2013 Trophy SE:
Plast-Aid is a plastic repair material. Mix the plastic powder with the solvent to fix broken ABS plastic. When cured, it can be sanded, drilled, primed and painted. I think that it is harder than the original plastic! I used a lot of it when my son bounced my Sprint off of a parked car and it slid on its side for about 8 meters, destroying a lot of expensive faring. Good as new now with a lot of repair and paint.
LED turn signals and a new signal module will make those turn signals much brighter and more obvious. I simply replaced the bulbs in the OEM assemblies and replaced the module to make the change. If you buy new indicators, make sure they are LED.

Love the color and the look of the bike! Very handy to have the cases, if you do, for running errands!

Good Luck!!

Plezier · Jun 9, 2025

Rob the Scott said: ↑

Let me offer two bits of advice from my 6 years of owning (and 30,000kms of riding) an 2011 Sprint GT and 2 years of riding (10,000kms) a 2013 Trophy SE:
Plast-Aid is a plastic repair material. Mix the plastic powder with the solvent to fix broken ABS plastic. When cured, it can be sanded, drilled, primed and painted. I think that it is harder than the original plastic! I used a lot of it when my son bounced my Sprint off of a parked car and it slid on its side for about 8 meters, destroying a lot of expensive faring. Good as new now with a lot of repair and paint.
LED turn signals and a new signal module will make those turn signals much brighter and more obvious. I simply replaced the bulbs in the OEM assemblies and replaced the module to make the change. If you buy new indicators, make sure they are LED.

Love the color and the look of the bike! Very handy to have the cases, if you do, for running errands!

Good Luck!!
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Thanks for the information just searched for the Plas-Aid and nearly had a heart attack at the price ony place I culd find it that will supply it here in Bulgaria is Amazon and for 6oz at £95 that's aout 200 lev they offer a 1.5oz for "only" £47 (90lev). There are 4 new Suzuki AY50 rear indicators on their way be about 3 weeks before they get here via courier there is also a new relay a standard Hella one as well also a couple of strip DRL's will fit one under the chin as lights are required on by law here and I think this LED strip will be better than the headlight not standard but there you have it.

My experieince with LED bulbs has not been good so far as they seem to fail quickly tried then in several cars in fact have to replace the sie lamp ones in the MGF again as they are strobing.

Plezier

Rob the Scott · Jun 10, 2025

That's too bad about the cost of Plast-Aid. Here, it is about 28GBP for 6 oz. And it goes a long way! I'm sorry to hear of your issues with LEDs. I have replaced headlights and tail lights in a dozen cars and 2 motorcycles with no issues. I have had to add resistors in a couple of applications, though. And the 2013 Trophy does not use a module for the indicators (only the ECU), so it has LED headlights now, but not indicators. There are a lot of LED light sellers, and I often wonder about the quality of what they are selling.
Good luck with the replacements!

Plezier · Jun 14, 2025

Well had a slightly odd thing happen today when riding back from the village down the hill lost all power. Fuel starvation the guage was reading 1/3 tank had to pull over and I played with the fuel tap and she fired up again looking in the tank there was fuel but it seems that the guage reading is a bit out though I filled her up when I got her from Pleven I did so on the side stand so the tank was not actually full. Was thinking of checking the hoses for leaking/failing but decided to go and fill her up and see how much it took to fill up .......................... answer was 18.098 litres which is 4 gallons and the needle is passed the F to the right when full so comming up the hill looks like it ran onto reserve to need to watch that in future.

Plezier