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.
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. Please don't tell me there is front and rear specific air for the tires.
No one can accuse you of not trying. It's the same air for both tyres - British Leicestershire Regular is the recommendation, I believe.
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.
Quote - “Now I lay awake at night wondering what other little surprises British engineering has lurking on my motorcycle. “ 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?.
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).
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.
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.
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 ) ?