Featured What you been doing with your TRIUMPH today??

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  1. Vulpes

    Vulpes Confused Member

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    F all... :mad:
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  2. Markus

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    @Vulpes: With me here, this "xxx:skull::poop::eyes:" weather also comes by this evening and remains until Sunday. The TIGERs and BONNIEs are grounded. :mad::(
     
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  3. Glenn2926

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    Grounded tiger today. Getting fed up of snow for this winter.
     
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  4. Sandi T

    Sandi T It's ride o'clock somewhere!
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    Having grown up in Minnesota, I remember well how peeved I'd get when it would snow so late in the season. A few times we even had snow in May! :mad: The only saving grace there was that we knew it would probably at least melt the next day or soon after. Hang in there guys! Spring is nearly here--it HAS to be, right??
     
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  5. Hubaxe

    Hubaxe Good moaning! aka Mr Wordsalad :)

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    Winter is coming back here, snow alert.
    Took the bike to go to a pro meeting. Estimated it won't rain and didn't took any rain cloth, and I was wrong. :mad:
    I'm slowly drying..
     
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  6. Sandi T

    Sandi T It's ride o'clock somewhere!
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    As someone who lives in the desert, even here I've learned that the one way to assure that it rains, even if just a little, is to NOT have rain gear along for the ride.
     
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  7. Hubaxe

    Hubaxe Good moaning! aka Mr Wordsalad :)

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    Today, I won't even bother to take the bike out. :grinning:

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  8. Octoberon

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    Ours has cleared so hopefully you'll be back to Spring by the weekend.
     
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  9. Armando Morales

    Armando Morales Noble Member

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    Got one of these little gadgets
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    and downloaded tuneecu to my mobile
    It might be me, but it amazes me that I can read what is going on in the engine right on my phone
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  10. brown mouse

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    It's meant to be spring! (Thinking back, don't think we had any snow where I live during the official Winter)
     
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  11. Glenn2926

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    Tell me about it! Fed up of the white stuff now. Going to get out tomorrow hopefully.
     
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  12. Glenn2926

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    Well we did get out and it was cold. Me on my RP 900, one brother on his Alpine edition 1200 and another brother on his R1200GS. Did I mention it was cold? It hailed, it rained, it snowed and there was perhaps a few minutes of sunshine. The warmest was 7degrees, coldest was 2degrees. Yeah it was cold. Bikes came home filthy so it was out with the hose and cleaning time. The things we do for our hobby.
    What a great day though.
     
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  13. Vulpes

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    As it is crappy weather today I thought I'd do a job I'd been postponing for a while. The sat nav on the mrs.' Street Triple was still connected straight to the battery. Not ideal. So took the rear end to bits, and found a switched live for the rear break light. Spliced into that, tidied everything up and reassembled. Job done. :)
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  14. Mrs Visor

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    Today @Helmut Visor and I went to a joint car / bike meet nearby. The bike numbers are beginning to climb now we're coming out of winter, although it was pretty chilly out on the bikes today. There was good coffee, friendly bike chat and a few interesting machines there including a lovely BSA Bantam. I always mean to take photos but get sidetracked just by looking and forget! At least I managed to look competent riding in and out and parking, nothing like riding through loads of petrol heads all looking at what machine you're on to make you feel the pressure :laughing:.

    The police came to do some "community relations" type work round where the noisiest of the cars were parked and funnily enough lots of the antics were toned right down ;). The children got to play with the blue lights in the police vehicle though so they were happy!

    More importantly (to me!) I went out first just for a quick 14 mile loop to hear my new exhaust, unpolluted by the twin baffle - free Akrapovics that grace the Tuono :laughing:. To me it sounds amazing; a deeper growly note at low speeds and the lovely whine and howl are still really audible when moving faster. The baffle is still in; I might take it out to see what it sounds like.

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  15. brown mouse

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    After experimenting again with bits of wood as handlebar risers I indulged in wishful thinking and convinced myself brake cable was long enough to fit Montone up-and-over risers; so I ordered some and fitted them today...

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    Turns out I was deluding myself and past half-lock the cables touch the top yoke. Not bad enough to stop me going for a test ride, but bad enough not to want to leave it like that.

    Thing is, brake cable has 'funny' connector under the tank which made me think I couldn't get a custom cable...

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    Bike is a Speedmaster but I had the Bobber bars fitted when I bought it, so I have the original longer cables (wrong orientation to use unfortunately) so I could have a good look at the connector on those...

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    It's a 10mmx1.25 thread and it turns out you can get those adaptors with Venhill's 'Powerhose Plus' lines. Wished I'd realised this a couple of years ago. Anyway, shall be ordering a kit to extend the line in the coming weeks.
     
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  16. Octoberon

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    It's ok in the sun here but chilly when it clouds over. No bikes this weekend.

    I like the look of that Tuono. I must try one out sometime.
     
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  17. Vulpes

    Vulpes Confused Member

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    Gotta love those road 5's! On my second set, love 'm!
     
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  18. Wessa

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    Met with a mate on his Thruxton and me on mine. We did a run to Market Drayton via Nantwich, onto Shrewsbury and up the A49 to Whitchurch. Stopped at Ma Bakers cafe for a coffee before heading to Bill Smiths in Chester. Another coffee before heading for home. It was only 6 to 7c today, so to cold to stop and take pictures. The sound those two Thruxton make is intoxicating and they look sooo’ good together :):)
     
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  19. Bikerman

    Bikerman Life's not a dress rehearsal.
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    Well I managed to take pictures at Willingham woods, and it was no heatwave there. ;);)
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