Featured What you been doing with your TRIUMPH today??

Then across country to Warcop, Kirby Stephen, Nateby, Muker and ice creams here at the Wensleydale ice cream parlour.





Plenty of flavour choices here, apparently Blackcurrant and Liquorice is the bees knees but it wasn't on so we had two very disappointed chappies, maybe next time.
Mine was a Stem Ginger in a twist cone and it was good, although the honeycomb nearly won

The leader did a good route and pace, despite riding a German ditch pump
A great group of guys, 220 mile round trip and a nice day out.
Obviously the 765 did the job and performed spot on so it got a bit of tlc with a wash and blow-dry when it got home.

 

My daughter had this shirt custom made for my birthday

 

Finding out the Nightstorm battery is on its last legs, nearly stranded at work 100 miles from home. Luckily someone randomly appeared with one of these small jump packs. I guess I'll be battery shopping later. To be fair I suspect it's the original battery, I've had it since '18 and it's a '15 plate so it's not done bad.

 

Giving it a last check over before setting off early tomorrow morning to Scotland for five days. Inverness tomorrow night.

 

So today I decided we'd go out on the 900st, the wife would pick where

How about the Giant Bradley day?

The what, I've no idea what you're talking about!

And so we set off.
Market Weighton isn't too far away so I picked a maximum minor road, dog leg route to get there.
Once arrived, helmets locked onto the bike to avoid carrying about and a drink was very much needed in this heat.
We called at the local scout stand for a pot of tea, the wife nearly flipped mid tea sip when she saw the next table



The event was very well attended with all the usual and the bonus was the " Two brothers stunt team" were doing a stint in the car park.







We then did a very convoluted return route and found some great unknown areas, only 25 mile or so from home.



A real steady plod today with no rush, the dash confirmed it showing 70.9mpg

 

Nice little ride out to Wells-next-the-Sea for a sausage sub at the Beach Cafe then on to Hunstanton. The indicated fuel consumption compensates for the small 12L fuel tank so the range is still decent.

 

Well was up early this morning and off to the shop for the MOT and service along with a connectivity module fitted which I didn't need in the end as was already one fitted but was turned off completely as it wasn't showing on the dash and no Bluetooth option available but after checking over reset and updated and all working even paired with my Chinese tough phone and even cheaper headset so money saved but had the brake fluid changed as moisture showing on the test meter I've never bothered in all my years of owning vehicles no matter how long I've owned them have I ever bothered to have this done but on advisement moisture in the fluid can cause damage to the abs system which never was an issue with straight through calipers and master cylinder set up another plus was the technician complimented my Tiger saying it's the best 900 he's ever rode so well happy

 

Interesting all this change brake fluid intervals nowadays as like yourself, in years gone by, we just didn't.

A friend once shared the story that he once came back from France in his car. It had developed a brake fault so he bled it up with water and it got him home just fine

 

If this was the 1960's you could of sworn you had broken down as with nothing around in all directions it could be mistaken you have just abandoned the bike

 

Good job done Mark, who did you use? if its not a secret. T.

 

No not abandoned, although did see a nice 1960s Triumph going the other way.
Here's another view.

 

Synchronize in abergele the old completely bikes woods they are good there's only three of them at the moment that's why for now they don't open weekends but like I mentioned before they have all the Triumph equipment so they are able to plug in and do full diagnostic on the bike so I got a Triumph print out of all functions working as should be I think that they might have some Ducati equipment left behind as well but they seem fair and probably cheaper than Bill Smith's used Triumph parts and oil as specified by manufacturer

 

Oh and they have a lovely 98 triumph 900 legend in green only 2500 miles from new

 

Thanks Mark, good to no. Will call in for a chat.

 

Just dropped the Nightstorm off at SWB Racing in Ebbw Vale to replace the rear shocks and put emulators in the front ones. Will Burchell is a road racer and really knows his stuff when it comes to suspension set up, highly recommended if you are looking to transform your ride with just a few turns of a screw
https://www.facebook.com/SWBSuspensionservices/?locale=en_GB

 

Despite the thunderstorms all day forecast for today it was glorious when I got up at 6. After breakfast and watching the MotoGP sprint recording I went through the should I shouldn’t I debate with myself. Finally I decided I’d take the Tiger out (I’d done the same yesterday and not got wet) for a few hours and ended up in Southport. It started to rain as I was about 2 miles away but nothing major. Only a couple of bikes at the pier as you can see when I parked up.


Had a coffee and toasted tea cake under cover at the cafe whilst it stopped and dried up. It was still warm and with the breeze it was fit to carry on after I’d finished my refreshments and had a chat with a few people. Got home for about 3 having ridden through a very brief shower. Cleaned the bike and all put away before the weather has just finally broke and its tipping down.

 

Today I fitted a SmartMoto AIS removal kit, hopefully that goes some way to cure the excessive popping on closed throttle.
Gave it a few revs and had no pops, will give it proper test ride in the morning
Depending on how it is then I may have to look at getting a tune or powercommander on it

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My Triumph insisted on being taken out for a 120 miles jaunt.

 

Helmut and I have just returned from three days away; we had our second track based training day with Rapid Training yesterday, so travelled up on Monday and back today. We decided to avoid motorways the same as last time and spend a day getting there via the Staffordshire moorlands and Peak District.

Monday started warm and dry, we planned a stop at The Old Smithy in Monyash as I have seen it on lots of peoples’ posts. It was great there, very friendly and the food was good - I had an oatcake with beans and cheese.








About a minute after leaving The Old Smithy we encountered absolutely biblical instant - flooding rain, so on went the waterproof jackets and we carried on, a little less spiritedly than before…by Bakewell it wasn’t too bad again and then about 25 miles from Scotter, where we were staying, it absolutely hammered it down. All part of the adventure. We had a lovely bar meal and some beers and an early night ready for our track day.

The track training was once again, superb, the coach was great and we both saw some big improvements in our riding, the track photographer was there, so I will bore you all with some photos when we have them! On the second session, a gentleman on a Triumph 400 had a nasty accident in front of me unfortunately and the session was red flagged for him to be attended to. He is injured and bike looks a mess, but thank goodness it was not thought to be horribly serious as he did fly very high indeed . I hope he makes a speedy recovery, that’s for sure. There were a few more people staying in the hotel that we were and we had a meal and a few more beers with one of them afterwards (he had impeccable taste, owning a 2025 Striple).

Today, we set off home at about 0900hrs after breakfast. We went via Bill Lomas Motorycles which was fantastic!! Very friendly, great coffee and some absolutely amazing bikes in incredible condition. I would have owned most of them in a heartbeat, but the NSR stole my heart!!




















We also popped into Matlock Bath for an ice cream and then had a thankfully still dry ride home.

 

Some great pictures there