no longer a newbie, there's been plenty ....

....after me and that's only since yesterday.. good active forum! and good to see other dirty foreigners to keep up with me.
If you should be interested the '94 Trophy story continues...read on
after the first tentative 20 miler this morning I sat down and gazed at the more important stuff. it came with no handbook or manual so it took a while to sus out how to get the seat off, where the batt was, what all those pretty buttons did and so on.
We had 40 º C today and having left the bike in the sun I came back to a curious whistling noise... sounded definitely electronic, like a cellphone battery about to expire.
No, definitely coming from the bike....no ignition on, disconnected the battery....turns out to be expanding gas fumes...opened the filler cap, stopped instantly. few mins later wheeeeeeeee. opened filler cap, stopped . Triumph have obviously patented a 'don't park the bike in the sun' warning system. My mate's 595 has a similar sun warning system....no whistle, just egg sized blisters all over the plastic gas tank.
Checked all the vital fluids, pumped up the tyres, went for a longer 2 hour 200km still gentl-ish blast. Its definitely growing on me, and fast becoming better than the Beemer K100. Same age, same standard of kit. but apart from the superior fairing/screen protection of the K, and solid luggage its just feeling like a better bike.
Continually stabbing for another gear though...120kph at 4000rpm seems abit short-legged and a bit frenetic....the car does 3100rpm for 130kpm and apart from the K I have had a rake of sportsters and big twins which if nothing else are relaxing and you don't change gear for hours.
Mentioned it previously, but a sprocket change option on the cards? any one done it.? Used a fair bit of gas too, maybe 40 mpg. The K is about the same, but the 1200 Sporty would do half that again and with no fairing.
Another long ride scheduled this week, and a Granada Seville Toledo trip in September, if I can sort some hard panniers,...any recommendations ?... non original gear no problem, Givi etc. Watch this space

 

Thanks for the info TheBigLad...actually you replied to my opening post on the Newbies forum
Its a 1994 1200. I will check out the link.
Did the one tooth increase mean you had to add a link to the chain or was there enough slack in the system to accommodate the larger sprocket?

 

as it happens I was down on all fours earlier and thought uh oh noway looks like a nightmare, my dad said never buy a bike where you cant see the motor and that was forty yrs ago . probably why Ive always liked the Sportster, there it is, in your face, you get what you see. Heavens know where the sparkplugs are on the Trophy, and stevethegoolie don't tell me you have to take the crankcase to bits to change the oilfilter.... sounds a bit like the silt trap on the old Meriden twins.
Anyway another couple undred KMs before breakfast today... gets too hot to ride midday. teeshirt and shorts you burn, leathers and you cook. And still its up there with the best. Its growing on me and doesn't even seem so big as I thought when I first clapped eyes on it The K is definetely going to get ratted...always thought it would make a good raw bike. and flog all the plastic to pay for a couple relocation brackets for caff style lights and atank seat unit etc . night night I'm knackered