Quick warning for you if you run a Thruxton or a Speed Triple - a mate and I were doing a one-hour ride-out today and half-way I noticed a gear shift was 'sloppy'. I thought my boot must have slipped off the lever and carried on riding. On the next shift the lever just came loose completely. Fortunately, there was a layby just ahead and I coasted into that. The gear change linkage rod is held to the gear change arm by a fixing with a thread on one end (that screws into the arm) and a ball on the other (that the linkage rod is clamped onto). The threaded end had unwound from the arm and fallen out completely. Fortunately, I was able to screw it back in by hand and continue but if it had failed in the middle of an overtake or something it could have been nasty. I would recommend removing yours and putting some threadlock in there - that's what I plan to do. My mate has a Speed Triple and it has the same design. My Haynes manual covers the Bonneville, T100, T120, Bobber, Street Twin, Cup and Scrambler so I suspect they also use the same design. It's a shame that after 36 years of buying second-hand bikes and maintaining them myself and *never* having had a failure like this, I buy a bike new, have it serviced by the dealer every year and it literally just falls apart while being ridden. That's disappointing.
The Street Twin, Scrambler and T100 don't use a linkage as the change lever itself clamps directly onto the shift shaft. I wish my SS used a linkage as the selector forks are less likely to get damaged by an impact to the shift lever if the bike is dropped.
Happened to me , luckily I was right by an Auto repair and he lent me a 10mm wrench to get it back tight, hit it with blue loctite when I got home and it's been fine since
There was a recall for this problem for dealers to reapply a thread locking compound to the threads. Apparently there was a problem with a batch used on the production line permitting the assembly to loosen.
My speed rs had the same. As above, I noticed it getting "sloppy " for changing gears and luckily, spotted it with a couple of threads left. Loctite and all has been well after.
I will ring my triumph dealer to check what recalls were do e when I bought it as I know there were a few done
I had problems with gear linkage on both my speed twin and Thruxton R. Both were fixed by my main dealer. Yes disappointing that oem parts should fail on new bikes.
I had problems with gear linkage on both my speed twin and Thruxton R. Both were fixed by my main dealer. Yes disappointing that oem parts should fail on new bikes.