Featured What you been doing with your TRIUMPH today??

I ignored the morning temperatures (-4 celsius) and took my "Stormi" for my 60 km office ride. Thanks for the heating grips and jacket.
It was a "cool" ride, but I love riding in the early morning when the sun rises.

 

Best part of the day

 

Today I was accompanied by my wife wife in her car. It was as cold as the last days, but in the late afternoon the temperatures are great. About 14 degrees are forecasted.

 

Nice action shots @Markus!

 

Yesterday I did about 210 miles in lovely warm sunshine on my Street Triple; I stopped at Welshpool Airport for coffee, did the Mach Loop and called in at Crossgates on my way home. Loads of bikes out and about. It was a very nice way to use the time before my night shift.

My approximate route is shown below…

 

Lots!

I had cheesy DIY panniers. Just a couple strips of aluminum stock clamped to the frame. They worked but were not "proper."

CHEESY PANNIERS


I found a set of panniers for $67.50 on Amazon.
I installed them today. Perfect fit and much cheaper than Triumph or Motone.
Proper now.

PANNIERS


MOUNTED WITH BAGS



Then I replaced the little rocker switch that came with the auxiliary lights. With gloves on I could never find it while I was riding. I installed a toggle switch instead. Much easier to find while moving.
NEW SWITCH


Then I remounted the auxiliary lights from low on the highway bars to up near the top.
AUX LIGHTS


Wash and wax after


Then I went for a ride. At my usual hangout, Fielders in Winslow, there was a sign on the door "CLOSED TILL SUNDAY." No reason given. So, I went to a place in Sicklerville, The Golden Nugget. Last time I was there was about forty years ago when our softball team went there after a game and a couple of our guys got into a fight and we were all thrown out. It used to be that kind of place. You wiped your feet when you walked out. Don't start swinging 'till someone knocks your drink over. They really cleaned it up now! There were actually families dining there. Two wheels, two beers, my rule. Rode home and put her up.

 

Brought her home

 

I have been changing the nose cone on my T595. I bought it with some scraping on one side years ago but for what was quoted for a respray on the nose cone only, I found it cheaper to purchase a second hand one in fairly good nick and swap them over. Time for an afternoon beer in the garage whilst admiring my handy work

 

Sounds like a glorious ride, @Mrs Visor! And I'm sure your Street Triple enjoyed it, too.

 

Trying again to remove a stripped T40 passenger grab rail bolt. Once successful, try to figure how to attach the two power wires to a Ciro phone holder mount. I did have it attached directly to the battery.

 

Today I’m going to Cobb & Jaggers to get it booked in for a service and to order the replacement plastic that were broken when I dropped it on the Col de Somellier last August. Hopefully the plastics won’t be too expensive. I do want the old plastics back as I like the battle scars. My son has bought us stickers of the Col de Somellier as a reminder. I would like to put the sticker on the damaged plastics then fix them on my garage wall.
I don’t like any kind of stickers on any of my vehicles so the garage wall will be the place.

 

After spending $70 on tools and trying unsuccessfully, I went to a local shop and the guy had it off in under three minutes. I had to argue with the guy to pay him, he didn’t want anything. I bought the guys in the shop lunch.

I’ve learned something here; Don’t try to be a hero, you’re too old, let the professionals handle it!

 

After spending $70 on tools and trying unsuccessfully, I went to a local shop and the guy had it off in under three minutes. I had to argue with the guy to pay him, he didn’t want anything. I bought the guys in the shop lunch.

I’ve learned something here; Don’t try to be a hero, you’re too old, let the professionals handle it!

 

After spending $70 on tools and trying unsuccessfully, I went to a local shop and the guy had it off in under three minutes. I had to argue with the guy to pay him, he didn’t want anything. I bought the guys in the shop lunch.

I’ve learned something here; Don’t try to be a hero, you’re too old, let the professionals handle it!

 

Booked the tiger in for it's 600mile sevice at Edinburgh Triumph, earliest date available is 21st May unfortunately, so its trying to keep the miles down till then. Shouldn't be too difficult since I've only managed 418miles since 2nd October.

 

Took a quick trip down to Exeter and back (300 miles) to celebrate my parents 60th wedding anniversary, not an exciting ride but still good to give the Nightstorm a run out

 

@Glenn2926, I have a funny sticker story for you. Our riding buddy, Russell, had a huge mirror hanging behind a couch in his garage (aka "Man Cave"). He had a nearly equally huge sticker collection plastered all over the mirror such that it was barely still reflective. Anyway, a couple of months ago he said he heard a massive crash coming from his garage. Yep, it was the mirror and it had fallen off the wall (where it had been for years!) and broken into hundreds and hundreds of shards. Bad news. And even worse, some of the pieces of glass hit and scratched his Street Glide.

Anyway, he is now in the business of starting his sticker collection over from scratch. Steve and I are working hard to supplement the ones that he's collecting whenever we're out and about. We just snagged him a bunch from the NHRA Arizona National Drag Races which we attended last weekend. He's an equal opportunity sticker collector.

 

Took the Street Cup to the South of England classic bike show and autojumble today. Decent weather and lots of classics to oggle at. Some great Triumphs of course, but the 14 (yes 14) Brough Superiors stole the show. The only stand that needed a security guard! (Joke).

 

After lunch I rode a 170 km tour with my wife through 2 provinces. The weather got after some rainy days at last really fine. We enjoyed our small tour. After the ride I cleaned all of our bikes, because we rode all of them in rain the last week.

A short stop in the woods on our tour.


On the photo you are able to see how huge the Rocket is in comparison to an usual motorcycle.




Our three bikes on their parking spot in "Le Mans" position for a quick start.

 

The R3 sure is a beast.