Featured What you been doing with your TRIUMPH today??

Love that Flying Millyard

 

Did 50 miles to Fraserburgh and back, got some cheap Draper expert sockets and spanners off Gumtree.

 

try these
http://http://www.triumph-ant.co.uk/



http://www.triumphhinckleyparts.co.uk/


http://stores.ebay.co.uk/National-Triumph.. always worth calling them

 

Hey Dave, too many http's there mate. Sandy also gave me www.triumph-ant.com in an Ebay message, which just redirects to http://www.triumph-ant.co.uk/

I'm looking at his cafe-racer single seat.

 

Bought a Triumph OEM solo sixty8 seat off gum tree yesterday, so I'm off to see if I can fix it on in place of the stock plank.

 

Did my quicky round Surrey/Sussex, beautiful weather beautiful roads, missed the traffic, now having a tea at Rykers.

 

Haven't been on here for a while work/Honda cbr600 rebuild taking most of my time
But did get time to clean my triple today so hopefully taking her out tomorrow

 

Strictly speaking it was yesterday, but I saved three lives on my Bonnie! First on the outward leg of my 'test-the-solo-seat spin', going down Bedford High Street, just past the Pelican crossing outside Barclays, a bloke in a bright white tee shirt holding a kids hand just wandered in to the road way when the lights were clearly on green. Luckily my reactions are like greased lightning and I avoided the pair of them and the following cars in the adjacent lane. Phew! Then on the way home, in the dusk, at the lights at the Pilgrims Progress corner (Wetherspoons with cracking good ales at keen prices), turning left next to the Bulgarian store, a bloke just wandered across the road from the Tesco's end (it's at a 45-degree angle) - the pedestrian light had to have been on bright red, I was accelerating round on green. So I revved hard and beeped to alert him and he just kept walking in to my escape line. Luckily my reactions are quicker than a speeding bullet and after doing a life saver I swerved round the back of him avoiding both him and the on-coming traffic. Now I haven't read the highway code since I passed my test in '74 so I will admit things might have changed, but I'm sure that with the right of way in both cases I had every right to eliminate these idiots from the gene pool. But I didn't and instead their lives were saved. Blimey, us bike riders, eh?

 

Actually, whilst it doesn't make any sense at all, pedestrians in built-up areas have right of way under ALL circumstances - no matter how daft their actions.

 

On the way in this morning through central London, I was accelerating after some lights and there is zebra crossing 100 yards up the road, a lorry is held up by traffic and is half way across it on the oncoming side and it 'appears' clear, however, my sixth biker sense is tingling and I slow down, duck my head low to see under the tail gate of the lorry and see a pair of white ankles in heels striding across the black n white stripes. I slow down sharpish, but not with urgency just as the cutest redhead steps out from behind the lorry, unfortunately my fellow bikers who were trying to out accelerate me didn't and cruised on past her with an inch to spare. She gives him the bird, then she looks at me, our eyes met and she gives me a smile and wave.

I also swapped over the rear brake caliper yesterday for one I obtained off ebay. My old one's slider had seized and I couldn't loosen it, and got the replacement for £90, including all pads and fittings... my bike is 2010, new one came off a 2014. I even did a good proper job of bleeding it and the response and feel back is top notch.

 

I hate to spoil it for you, but 2 fingers flapping up and down isn't a wave! ;-)

 

Probably being a bit stupid here, but what do you mean "Screw Head" or do you mean the literal design of a screw head.
If you do have a rounded screw, there are still ways to free it up, look at the following for ideas:

- Delboys Garage (Moonfleet41)
- Stripped Allen Bolt Fix
- Rounded Nuts!
- Caliper Rebuild

 

This weekend I put my Trident away in a mates garage - so I could borrow his new Tiger Explorer to "try it out"
All I will say is it will be hard to go back to the Trident.

 

Ah, okay, so the cover screw for the pin is seized
Yeah, they are only meant to be nipped up, I have heard of some people using thread lock on them fearing they will come undone!

It is quite possible to drill them out, start off with a small drill bit and gradually increase in size, you may be able to do a series of them in a row to get a screw driver in deep and get better leverage.
They would cost no more than £5 delivered I would think to replace them.
On my bike, it doesn't have those screw cap covers, but I do ensure a dab of copper grease on the thread which helps immensely when they need removing.

Do try other sprays other than WD40 to get in there and loosen it off, and try heating it up, even a ciggy lighter on and around the head may be enough for you to shock it free with a bang on the end of a screwdriver

 

$Jeez $I wish I had a mate with a Tiger! Then again I wish I had a mate!