Featured What you been doing with your TRIUMPH today??

Forgot to add it was in the back behind the seats lol

 

i’ve learned over the years that moving may be seen as an opportunity to cull and simplify. Not always what I care to do but moving can certainly wind up turning into that nonetheless. That may be seen as a silver lining of moving— less shite. At least for a little while!

 

That may be so Sandi but we still have boxes of "shite" in our loft that we brought from our last house eight years ago. They were obviously vital as they have still not been opened.

 

Have to agree with @andypandy we have boxes in the attic from over 30 years ago that have been moved from two previous houses. I keep meaning to have a good sort out, but riding the bikes keeps getting the priority

 

Made the first camping trip and adventure ride on my new Scrambler - So much fun

 

Sounds like a great day apart from the minor hiccup with the Thruxton.

 

I left my house in Landers this morning at 0815 and made a 295 mile loop: Landers-Salton City-Borrego Springs-Ocotillo Wells-Salton City-Landers. It was a little warm (just south of 100 Fahrenheit), but that's life in the desert. My friend/neighbor/riding buddy and I had lunch at The Alamo in Salton City; I'd never eaten there before, and I can now say they have a most excellent carne asada burrito.

My Scrambler 1200XC ran great, and yielded an average mpg of 52.1. I think I'm going to start looking for a new helmet though. The Torc T-14B I've been riding with is comfortable for about an hour and a half, but then it starts raising a hot-spot on the middle of my forehead. I need something with the same features, but a more ovoid-shaped shell.

All in all, a great day out on the bike.

 

British Customs Sleeper Pro exhaust on. What a transformation, sounds like a proper motorcycle now! Awesome quality and sound. Could not be happier.

 

Some speed rs parts on ebay if people are interested?
Not mine but some nice carbon trinkets!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/richy_n/m.html?item=154481550581&hash=item23f7d164f5:g:fioAAOSwfDZgu68G&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562

I'm selling this btw if anyone interested.
i'll knock £10 off for a forum member.
Speed rs 25mm lust lowering links + lowered stand.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/154483771184

 

Thanks…I’ve put the SC on my watch list. I was thinking I may buy one over the winter and do a bit of tinkering. But let’s see what this goes for ..!

 

I'd definitely go for the battery too. It's brilliant.

 

Will share this with my HH since he mentioned a bit ago that his T140 needs new shift plates; and now I'm looking forward to all of the advertised benefits of the shift plates...he's already darn good-looking but the younger part could really be useful.

 

I think it is a scam. I slipped off the path yesterday straight into the pond and surprised the newts. I do, apparently, appear younger under water (according to the Admin Staff once she could speak after laughing so much) and my skin does feel softer after the application of so much algae. Ruined my corduroy bib and brace. It'd better stop the grabbing or I'll be wanting my money back.

 

You are all totally bonkers.

Get out of my reality. Be gone.

It was nice and peaceful in cuckoo land until you @Martine and @Iron turned up talking gibberish.

 

yesterday actually

took the 1972 T120 out for a first ride since the fall. the little lithium battery was charged, so after flicking the enricheners on the mikunis and freeing the clutch, a few kicks started the motor right up.

no issues at all blowing the cobwebs out, which mostly consists of knocking the corrosion off the plugs and dissolving any deposits in the carburetors.

worked fine for twenty miles, then on the way home i began to be uneasy. i've ridden this motorcycle for over 40 years, so i can generally detect issues subliminally before they become noticeable to my conscious brain. couldn't tell what was wrong until it finally got bad enough for me to say,

ignition. misfire.

and in another mile the bike began to sputter and backfire through the pipes. then it slowed and on the home stretch the oil pressure light began to flicker, then it stopped dead.

looked at it for a moment, then checked all the hot and ignition wires. nothing loose, which would have accounted for the symptoms, so i flicked the power off and back on, and the oil pressure light went bright red with the dead engine, as it should. kicked once, and it fired up as normal, the light went out, and stayed normal the last few miles to the house.

took throttle well in the lower rpm ranges, then once the fuel level was normal it took throttle all the way up. ignition was fine, fuel was fine, no misfires, no sputtering.

go figure.

at the house, there were still no loose wires, no problems idling, nothing apparently wrong.

so i dunno. have to take it out again and run through the changes and see if it happens again. else i will chalk it up to sunspots and motor on

dunno why the oil pressure light flickered. that still has me stumped, as normally the light stays off for five or six seconds after the oil pump stops turning. there is no reason for the motor to lose oil pressure until it has been stopped for five or ten seconds. so i shall watch closely. haven't had the bottom end apart for 25 years. maybe i'm being warned.

 

Swapped out the plastic skid plate that comes on the Tiger 1200 XRx for the aluminum one that comes on the XCa. I'm honestly not sure the XCa one is going to be all that rugged, and I'll likely end up swapping it out for a third-party one soon (probably the one from SW-Motech). However, it is *certainly* better than the plastic one that was installed on the bike from the factory, and any level of protection is better than the bottom of the engine block just hanging out there at the bottom of the bike as such a tempting rock target.



I also added a brake pedal extender and riser from AltRider to make the rear brake pedal a bigger target and add a higher-up, and easier to reach target for when standing offroad.



Oh, and I took it out for a hundred-mile-or-so run around the hill country with my Harley-riding friend, and stopped in Fredericksburg for some fresh-off-the tree peaches

 

Love Fredericksburg when we passed through a few years ago. Do you have any pictures from your visit.

 

First thing that popped into my head is an earth issue

 

I'd venture electrical issue with the oil switch - whack in a new one

 

Got a new screen for the rs and tried it. Only £108 and quality is ok.
Took it to 80 and not a worry. Missing a couple of washers but I had a kit so all in, recommended. Only reason I got it is for my upcoming bike trip in July as as it’s a lot of motorway work, it made sense.
Coming off when home though!
I’m unwittingly turning it into a sports tiger???