Triumph Triples

Alatamoc · Aug 2, 2019

Dave Johnston (DJ) said: ↑

Hi,
I always say Atherstone is Warwicksire's town of culture because all the Council Tax cash gets spent on historic Warwick and Stratford upon Avon, not a little old ex Hatting and Coal Mining town like Atherstone. I did 17 years down the local pit myself till the industry was shut down and the hats went all over the world. Lady Diana (remember her?) had several in her collection.
There was a large roman fort and settlement in Mancetter, the village next to Atherstone.This being one of the possible locations for Bodecia's battle.
We have electric lights and gas now too!
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And I understand The Wheel will be coming soon to Tunbridge Wells.

Dave Johnston (DJ) · Aug 5, 2019

Yorkshireman said: ↑

Welcome along DJ and may I wish you a long and happy retirement. Well done on a fabulous intro, pop a couple of pics up when you get a minute. I agree it’s great to see a stand alone British bike brand up there with the rest (Japanese, mainly) tho I’m fairly new myself to Triumph’s having had all jap bikes since I was 16. Regarding tyre life on the Roadtec’s I’d consider myself a brisk rider when the conditions allow and have done a couple of tours on my bike in the last couple of years and I recently changed the rear after 7500 miles at which point it was still legal just a bit flat leading to less than perfect steering, the front lasted 8000 miles and again was legal but I was having to use a lot of pressure on the bars to get the bike to go where I wanted.
Ride safe and enjoy the next tour.
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Thanks for the welcome. I too rode jap bikes from 16 on; Honda 90 sports, T200 Invader, TR350, XS650,
Honda 750K2, GT750 Kettle, GS750, Z750 Shaft, CBR1000F, CBR600FR, VTR1000F, then the Triple Trio.
After getting the same 4.5k mileage from several pairs of 01's on Sprint a 1050 ST and Tiger Sport 1050, it has to be down to me. (I only got 2,500 from BT50's on the CBR1,000 (2 rears to 1 front = 5k miles)
I ran PR4's and 023's on the ST and got only 4k, when others on Tiger Sports told me thay got 8k from PR4's.
Guess we all ride differently. I will fit a new rear and try for 1 front to 2 rears.
Ride Safe
DJ

mpllineman · Aug 5, 2019

Good morning DJ and welcome aboard. Ride safe and enjoy!

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