This Is Where Ill Be.... Repost Of Intro For This Topic Group.

Thank you, and this worked for a long period of time huh?

 

Also would you happen to know the other threads that talk about chirping?

 

Generally it works for about 2k miles. Then repeat.
I'm about to do a 3000 mile European tour on mine next month...I'll treat it before I go...just in case.....it's the dust on the belt that causes the problem.
Most of the posts are on the Thunderbird 1600 world forum.
I don't agree with a lot of these...eg slackening off the belt etc. triumph spent a lot of time with Gates belts before they decided on the specs.
Compared with all my Harley's the tbird suffers less with belt noise.
In any event washing and spraying with DRY silicone ( not wet...you'll get an oily residue which attracts diet) can do no harm and might cure your noise.
On my bikes it sounded prior to treatment as though I was accompanied by birdsong wherever I went.
Hope this helps
Al

 

I got the chirping after several thousand miles. Spoke to the head mechanic at my local triumph dealer and he said the triumph recommended adjustment causes this and it does no damage. You can adjust it another quarter turn to remove the chirping, but it was my choice. He didn't explain why it only started after a few thousand miles.

 

As I said...it's the dust that causes the chirp I believe....that's why it takes a fair amount of use for it to chirp.
But I may well be wrong.... sometimes I am.

 

When I asked the mechanic about the chirping he took me outside to his forecourt of secondhand bikes and showed me which ones would chirp. Without me telling him which bike was mine he identified mine as a chirper.

When looking at the bike from the rear the belt was touching the left of the belt sprocket (if that's what it's called) and that's what he said caused it. Why it didn't chirp at the beginning and was the belt always touching the side are questions I can't answer.

 

He may of course be right. The easiest way to check is to wash your belt spray with dry silicone and go for a ride. If it still chrips then clearly he's right.

 

Very nice.
Keep up the good work.