Featured What you been doing with your TRIUMPH today??

Finished up at the Dog and Gun bike night at Netheravon.

 

Today, I just rode it.


To the bike meet at Wray, near Lancaster.

Rain just about held off. Marvellous.

Atb

Bob

 

May pay them a visit if I get down there before the old man moves back to the UK later this year.

 

Will you just bog off the lot of you and get yourself a job where you have no free time when everyone else's off riding!!

 

A mate of mine popped round this arvo on his new to him Triumph 1050 Speed Triple that he had just picked up in the NE of England. So of course we have to go out for a bimble - except it turned into quite a blast. I hadn't been quite that fast in a good while and my Tiger really showed it's claws !!!!

 

How frequent Is the meet? I fancy going...

 

Dave, I've ridden with you when we were both on Bonnies and at last years GMU - you are not really a bimbler (must be the kevlar joggers - they inspire faster riding!)

 

Bloody hell Wayne, that really has split !!!!! Can you completely undo the jubilee clips, remove them, then remove the rubber ?

Once you've got it off the bike you might be able to supaglue it ?

 

What about using a thin strip of exhaust bandage ?

 

Good thing about the exhaust bandages, they do tighten themselves and are obviously fully heat resistant.
Worth trying or taking some with you for what they cost.

 

Trust Penelope mate! That certainly has split though. Yeah, taking the carbs off - well actually putting them back on is a real bugger (memories from my Trident 900). Had to do it twice. If you have to go down that route, I found that a hairdryer to warm up the rubbers before you line them up plus a thin film of washing up liquid spread around the inside of each rubber helps.

 

Nice Speedy at the Haven last night with "cheeky" pipes!

 

I'm probably being thick mate, but I don't understand why you can't remove the rubbers - once you've removed the jubilee clips of course - without stripping out the airbox.

Assuming you've got the clips off, the old rubbers are probably a bit stiff as they do with age (that's probably why they split) and as they're fubar'd I would cut them off and chuck'em. In this warm weather the new ones will be soft and as Steve suggested a bit of washing up liquid or vaseline on them and I would have thought you could have slipped them in - inside first then outside - using a small-bladed flat screwdriver or small L-shaped allen key.