Hi, Signed up to try and find interesting forums on technical questions/answers, after being on the other main triumph sites for a couple of years, which unfortunately have a lot of American input. I'm not against our American buddies, however when they start mentioning other useful sites or suppliers or parts which are all American, it gets very frustrating for us UK based owners. Let's hope this site is of more use and fairly active with people who service and maintain their bikes themselves.
Bygone57 Welcome to the Family. You got it all wrong mate. Here they are all touched in one way or another. When you are on here a time or two they will send Nursey for you and you to will join the lunatic circus. We will want a picture of your steed to calm us all down helps Nursey administer our meds. But on a serious there are some clever peeps on here sadly I am not one of them. We have quite a few American Brothers here aswel and they are awesome aswel. That's what makes this forum so great. Ride Safe Joe.
My Very much modified, 1999 thunderbird 900, still a work in progress. Faster than a standard sports model. I will lose interest one day....or run out of money???
Bygone57 Its a great looking beast. don't know if it is me or not but the rear seems a little higher than I remember. But great photo. Inmates will drool all night now. Helps Nursey no end. Ride Safe Joe.
It has Morad 18" polished rim alloy wheels front and rear with stainless spokes, better looking than the 16" standard rear. Gives it the kind of look I wanted.
It's the profile of the tyres that may change gearing rather than wheel size, in this case it has 70 rear tyre rather than the 90 standard, so not much in it from a gearing point of view.
Hi Joe From a handling and gearing view not a lot, as it's the profile of the tyre that counter balances the size of wheel. I.e.: the standard profile on the 16" wheel was a 90 tyre the 18" wheel has a 70 profile. So not much in it, I have toyed with the idea of experimenting with different sprockets but as yet I am fairly comfortable with the gearing/handling.
Aswell as the bespoke 3-1 stainless exhaust (with removable baffle) it has an opened up K&N filter without the restrictions of the standard air filter system, it has a stage 2 dynojet to help balance things up, the sound without the baffle is awesome, sounds great changing down or de excellerating it pops and bangs, very anti social, I know
Bygone That's acceptable. Can't have an unique motorcycle and be socialable to the public. Regards Joe.
Hi Mate and Welcome to the forum, nice looking bike, plenty of serious stuff on here amongst the lunacy that also goes on, we train our Yanks to speak/type the Queens English, it's tough but worth it!
For the record I wasn't having a go at our neighbors across the pond, on the contrary, it was their wealth of parts and special accessories and other goodies, that were available to them at seemingly reasonable prices. As compared to our fairly limited resources, that was annoying me. When ever I saw a part or accessory that interested me, it was only available in the states or cost a small fortune too ship to over here. No insult intended!