Why Triumph...why?

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  1. Fork Lock

    Fork Lock Elite Member

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    Why, Triumph, why would you not engineer your motorcycles so that the two air filters were identical and interchangeable? Not left and right side specific.

    You see, this way, a new to the brand dolt, such as myself, wouldn't order two fooking left side fooking air filters!

    WTF?!

    OK, maybe the information, this little idiosyncrasy, is buried somewhere in the owner's manual, but what you fail to understand is that some of your motorcycles are sold in the U.S.

    Americans, especially American men, don't read instructions or manuals, dammit!

    You should have anticipated this. I refuse to accept responsibility.

    :mad:
     
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  2. capt

    capt Elite Member

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    Order two of the other side !!

    Then you will be sorted for this service and the next LoL
     
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  3. Octoberon

    Octoberon Crème de la Crème

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    Have you tried turning the bike around and seeing if it fits? ;)
    :D
     
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  4. Dawsy

    Dawsy Cumbrian half-wit
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    Probably not helpful but very amusing :joy:
     
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  5. Octoberon

    Octoberon Crème de la Crème

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    "Probably"? :joy:
     
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  6. Flay

    Flay Well-Known Member

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    Amerkans say "prolly"
     
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  7. PatW

    PatW Senior Member

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    Brits swear between every other word...after also not reading the small print
     
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  8. andyc1

    andyc1 Lunarville 7, Airlock 3

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    Maybe triumph moved the roadster graphics and paint designer to the airbox design department
     
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  9. Fork Lock

    Fork Lock Elite Member

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    #9 Fork Lock, Apr 20, 2022
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    I have ordered two of the correct, right-side air filters. Now I prolly have a lifetime supply as I only ride in clean air.

    I did try turning the bike around.

    I tried inserting the filters with my back to the bike while using a mirror, as well.

    I tried hanging the bike upside down by a chain hoist.

    I also tried using a hammer to make it fit (This usually works with most other mechanical problems I encounter).

    Now I lay awake at night wondering what other little surprises British engineering has lurking on my motorcycle. :neutral:

    Please don't tell me there is front and rear specific air for the tires.
     
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  10. Octoberon

    Octoberon Crème de la Crème

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    No one can accuse you of not trying. :joy:

    It's the same air for both tyres - British Leicestershire Regular is the recommendation, I believe.
     
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  11. PatW

    PatW Senior Member

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    *Taiwanese
     
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  12. surlyone2

    surlyone2 Active Member

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    If I send a container, could you fill it for me ? Worth finding out if it's the crap air from Antarctica that's always caused me to be such a shit rider ? Thanks in advance.
     
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  13. Mark9

    Mark9 Noble Member

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    Quote - “Now I lay awake at night wondering what other little surprises British engineering has lurking on my motorcycle. :neutral:

    I bet it came as one hell of a surprise that the British engineers didn’t need cylinders the size of trash cans to achieve 100bhp?.
     
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  14. Mark9

    Mark9 Noble Member

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    #14 Mark9, Apr 22, 2022
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    P.S. I have reconsidered my above comment overnight and decided that it may be somewhat “anti American” , it’s just that ever since I saw an episode of Jay Leno’s garage on YouTube where he suggested that the British had to pass production of the Merlin engine over to America because they weren’t technically capable of producing it, and his idiot mate chirped in saying that American engineers had to alter the drawings because they were totally inaccurate I’ve been filled with anti American sentiment, or to put it another way I’ve been boiling with uncontrollable anger and hatred!!!, what a pair of ill informed morons!, in reality the Merlin was licensed to America as part of the war effort because American industry had greater capacity and could therefore produce at scale, the changes to the drawings comprised of nothing more than different threads on the fasteners, because Americans like to use strange fasteners, also the Merlin was light years ahead of anything that America had and was used to transform the P51 from an underpowered waste of aloominum into arguably the best fighter of WW2, so on balance maybe I was a little harsh Fork Lock , after all you didn’t write Jay’s script did you :)

    PPS Thanks for winning WW2 for us, much appreciated (but rarely admitted).
     
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  15. PatW

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    John Wayne won WW2 Everyone knows that..
     
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  16. PatW

    PatW Senior Member

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    And In fairness, we were still paying the lease loan bill to the U.S. up until 1990, proving there's no such thing as a free lunch.;)
     
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  17. joe mc donald

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    Still PatW is right John Wayne won the war i know i saw it on my tele.
    Joe
     
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  18. Fork Lock

    Fork Lock Elite Member

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    You guys are a riot. That's one of the things I like about this forum - the Brit sense of humor.

    Well, that and the pictures of scantily clad women on motorcycles.

    Mostly the scantily clad women, though.
     
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  19. PatW

    PatW Senior Member

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    Pictures of me humorously scantily clad are available on Instagram :scream: apparently :eyes:
     
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  20. surlyone2

    surlyone2 Active Member

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    He aged well, 'cause I seen him win the Indian wars all by himself (well, maybe with a little help from Robert Mitchum ,et al ) ?
     
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