Featured What you been doing with your TRIUMPH today??

Thanks Sandi. I think I may just keep using that phrase, because even when bike ownership / riding is frustrating or difficult there's just something that means we wouldn't be without a bike.

Back in the day when I was in my late teens and early twenties my bike was my daily transport and I did about >50,000 miles over four and half years and literally rode in all weathers apart from riding to work and holidays most weekends was a return journey from Malvern in Worcestershire ~ 60 miles to my parents near Bristol. The worst by far was freezing fog; the roads were icy, it was usually dark and eventually you had to open the visor because of the ice, and then your eyes would begin to sting, the things you do when you're young and confident. Now I'm in my sixties I have a much higher sense of self preservation.

I was glad I had my bike then and I'm glad I've got my bike now.

 

So I really did go on the DGR Cheshire ride I'll put my thoughts in the 2022 DGR thread of the Rideout section.

This was me at the end of the ride, the bike is clearly the better looking.



Only twenty or so of us because it was the organisers' first time coordinating a run, all the same a great bunch to ride with.

 

Did you ever have that moment in freezing fog when visibility started getting bad, then you wiped the visor and removed the layer of ice? Suddenly, visibility wasn't that bad.... That was my first experience of it in the 70's...

 

Yes, and what a relief! But sometimes it got to the point that the ice just wouldn't clear and that's when it started to hurt.

 

I am obviously not @Jeff Standley @Wfc-james but have fitted a Powerbronze screen to my Street Triple R - it's slightly larger than the Triumph fly screen but not massive. I like the look of it on the bike and it does reduce the wind hitting me on my upper chest and send it up and over my head more. The change is not massive but I do enjoy the difference the screen has made and really like the look of it on the bike. I am shortish at around 167cm (5ft 5 - 6) and have a fairly forward lean on the bike due to my height in relation to the pegs and bars - I would imagine it would feel much different to a tall person who is positioned more upright on the Striple. @Helmut Visor says that he felt it on his lower - mid chest when he rode it before the screen was added and he is about 6ft 1 tall.

 

@Wfc-james, I agree with @Mrs Visor and have the same screen. Powerbronze, on my Speed Triple RS. I really like it. This isn't the greatest photo of it (background noise) but I think you can get the idea. I like how it looks plus, as Mrs Visor said it reduces the wind hitting my on my upper chest and does divert some of it to the sides and over my head. For me the addition of the Powerbronze screen was worth the price. I'm about the same height as Mrs Visor or about an inch or so taller.

 

I have a question for the good members, I have discovered a multi-plug at the back, there appears to be no mating plug, looked in the book of words to no avail, any ideas people

 

Isn't that the plug used for diagnostic purposes?

 

Thanks, hadn't thought of that right enough, restoring one of these machines is certainly a learning curve

 

I like how you assumed you are a "good member"

 

Love that Sporty, yer gotta be a hard-arse or a fat-arse to go very far on a rigid with feet out the front !

 

Last week my right-hand heated grip stopped working and as Triumph only seem to sell them as a pair I had to fork out £210 They arrived today so I proceeded to fit the right one, only to realise as I was about to tighten up all the screws that I'd put the faulty one back on, doh! Then as I was in the middle of correcting this the heavens opened up and I was scrambling to find a plastic bag to stop the insides of the switchgear from getting wet. Finally after fitting them I checked the faulty one to see what had gone wrong, turns out the conductor in one of the wires had broken at the connector end. This is unsurprising as the cable is far too short and you have to pull it taught with long nosed pliers just to connect it up, really crap design...



So, the grip is repairable, unfortunately I failed in getting the pins out the connector so couldn't do this now. What looks like the correct connector is out of stock everywhere (or rather the pins are) and on back order for October, so that's a project for another season.

 

Riding up Mont Ventoux. Among other passes.

 

I spoilt myself today. I had a hospital appointment this morning so took the tiger to avoid the nightmare of trying to park the car. When I got home I had some lunch and then went out on the Thruxton. What is there not to like about triumph bikes and being retired so you can enjoy them.

 

Installed new EBC brake pads, front & rear, on my T120 Bonneville (2020) after 19k kms.
What an incredible difference... it now stops! …and much more "feel"
To say the least, the brakes were a little disappointing since new.
I thought it was just the change from more "performance" type bikes that I've had.
Just wondering how long the rotors/disks will last????
If you haven't changed the pads yet - I recommend it.

 

"Out of stock" seems to be the way of the world these days, @brown mouse. Perhaps you'll get lucky and get it sooner rather than later.

 

Good for you, @Wessa! Two Triumph rides in one day! That makes for a good day, even with and in spite of a hospital appointment.

Speaking of retirement, today was officially Mr. Sandi's last day of his 42 year career as a school psychologist. I'm so happy for him! And already jealous.

 

Spectacular, Glenn!

 

Hi there @brown mouse !
I have one of those connections that you are welcome to have. Pm me your address and I'll pop them in the post for you.

 

Thanks very much for the kind offer As I have new working grips I may hold out for getting new connector parts as I'd hoped to also use some highly flexible wire with them with the idea that would last longer. If getting parts look too tricky then I may well come back to you and take you up on your offer. Thanks again.

Edit: It also just occurred to me that I may want to use wire with a high temperature insulation. The original wire looks different to the average stuff, with two layers and doesn't feel like PVC.