Featured What you been doing with your TRIUMPH today??

You do seem to typically drag the rain around with you, @Mrs Visor.

 

Your Street Triple looks like new after that treatment, @Mrs Visor!

 

@Mrs Visor: My I bring my bike for such an excellent treatment?

 

I know .

 

Of course @Markus. It would be a short trip here by your standards - about 1700km I think. I'd even make you a coffee .

 

@Mrs Visor: I might accept your offer in 2024 if I'm in the area.

 

You and your wife would be most welcome; we're right on the doorstep of some beautiful routes.

 

My Speed Twin is at the dealers and up for sale.
It’s good looking and that’s about it. It’s snatchy/jerky, doesn’t like corners, brakes are pulsing and I do not feel safe on it.
Bag of shite.

 

Hmmm, what are you looking at as an alternative and what did you ride prior to the Speed Twin that you're unhappy with, @Willythepooh?

 

Ninja 1000SX, GSXR1000R, Aprilia RSV4, virtually any other bike was better.

 

To be fair, none of those bikes are comparable. Perhaps it's just a different style of ride, and you simply don't like it (because the Speed Twin is generally considered to be a superb machine).

 

I think you are not comparing like for like bikes. The speed twin is not a sports bike, it is a big twin and you cannot ride it like the inline fours.
Once you master riding a big twin they are a brilliant bikes.

 

You've owned/ridden all those and you're comparing them to a classic Triumph twin?

 

Time to break out the tyre levers.

 

Rode 30 miles each way yesterday to enjoy a double sausage baguette at the Original Tea Hut in Epping Forest, to find to my horror that they only take cash. A kind soul in the queue stood me a cup of coffee, but by the time I’d ridden back into Epping town I thought “f*ck it” and had a toasted sandwich in Starbucks instead

 

Just fitted some "Black Friday deal" adjustable pegs to my Street Cup. Need the rain to stop before testing out though!

 

Always take cash! If the powers out, card readers dont work which I've seen twice at petrol stations. A lot of small shops are turning to cash only due to fees on card transactions.

 

So glad to know you got a nice ride in yesterday, @learningtofly! Hope your weather was better than your payment "luck". Interestingly, we're finding it more and more common here to NOT be able to pay with cash and ONLY being able to pay with a credit or debit card/ Apple Pay/PayPal/etc. BTW, are any of the Starbucks employees in your neck of the woods on strike like lots of the Starbucks locations in the in the US?

 

Not that I’m aware of, Sandi. What are they striking over?

Yes, I suspect cash will soon be a relic from a bygone age, which is exactly why I wasn’t carrying any

 

There was an incident in the centre of Oldham a few months ago when a JCB took out the internet for a large cluster of shops and the outage lasted several days. The retailers were not pleased as so many people do not carry cash these days. I tend to carry cash and cards. One of my local chippies only takes cards which is highly unusual but I believe that is because the owner has had issues with staff and cash going missing. On the other hand, all the local Chinese takeaways only take cash, I wonder why that is ? It wouldn't be anything to do with tax avoidance so I wonder why it is ???