Easy to justify the need for radiator guards ..... a lad I used to work with bought a brand new Yamaha R1, but after a very few weeks had a stone go through his radiator which landed him with a bill which I believe was way north of £300. He also fitted a stone guard to the new radiator!!!!!
At 92% humidity and rain, it wasn’t the best day for a TRMCC group ride, but we had a great day. Stopped at Rangiriri to pickup Waikato members, then off to Cambridge for pizza. Lucky more than once with the radar detectors saving our bacon
The other week I scraped the footrest two-up on a roundabout and realised it had been absolutely ages since I'd done so. So today when I was cleaning the bike I'd thought I'd check the 'bank angle indicators' to see if they were badly worn, or if I'd just got more leisurely in my riding. Well, as you can see from the picture, I solved that misery. The other one was actually snapped off and there was a rusting stump in the footrest, guess that one broke on the roundabout. Think I'll replace them, as they're an inch long I don't want to get reminded of the limits by scraping the actual footrests.
Nice bimble down to Melton and then Market Harborough, including a cuppa and cake at Buttercups Tea rooms - very pleasant. Noticed how getting suspension set up when on a trackday last week has improved things on the road too. DS
Fitted some gaiters I got as a Father’s Day present and made some covers for the top forks for a few £s unlike the cost of buying some on line for well over the top money. Pleased with the look.
Fitted some gaiters I got as a Father’s Day present and made some covers for the top forks for a few £s unlike the cost of buying some on line for well over the top money. Pleased with the look.
I sold my street triple RS today, it was a lovely bike but I suffered a broken nerve in my shoulder not long after buying it which made riding this style of bike uncomfortable , I’ve still got my scrambler so not without a bike, I sold the RS in under 24 hours on eBay with a classified add.
Hi Ron, You could try longer rear shock absorbers ,10mm on mine , put stiffer springs or some longer spacers in your front forks , and then dropping your front end 18~25 mm. This speeds up turn in response and tightens turn in . cheers capt
That’s the reason I got rid of my 09 Speedmaster the handling was shite It can be greatly improved with Avon tyres and better rear shocks but it’s not a good handler especially at lower speed manoeuvre’s
Finally got round to replacing the brake and clutch fluid on my Trophy. Why oh why triumph must I remove the rack, rear bodywork and one side of the air box assembly just to get access to the rear brake reservoir.... at least it's not an annual job...
I just use a syringe , to drain and fill the reservoir . Only hard part left to do is removing the cap ! That takes a bit of effort !! But I don't remove anything else , just take out the front mounting screws for the side panel to give me room to get at the cap !
Thanks for the advice. I did try your way first but my fat fingers just couldn't manage to get the cap off....
Just booked CERBERUS in for his first service Getting done on the 15th so if the GMU goes ahead on the 16th I’ll be good to go
Yeah, I'm crap at playing the guitar and I blame those digits for that as well... Nowt compared to your trials though. I've been following them and I do hope the alternator and new ignition switch fix all the bikes faults. Good luck.
Had a ride out today with the Fossil Riders to the Park Pavilion in Melton Mowbray, 9 bikes and a couple of slightly infirm members in sports cars. Café has a take away menu, and we dodged most of the showers so a good day. If the weather improves we may go further next week. ( Fossil Riders should be self explanatory, most of us are well retired and the motto is Adventure before Dementia.)
My Street Triple had been running poorly recently, then I realised it was possibly due to the fact I changed back to standard silencers from TORS, and had not remapped. So tonight I attempted my first remap using TuneECU, all seemed to go well until I tried to start the bike, pressed the starter and nothing ...after a few minutes of abject panic, I realised I was trying to start without using the clutch lever - What a twat! I'll hopefully discover tomorrow if the remap has sorted the problem.
