Organised and led the first ride out of the Milton Keynes branch of the Owners Club today. 17 bikes, one pillion, two drones. Nice day, good company, cracking roads. Parked up here outside Kimbolton School. https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=3211713238854913
It’s just at there may be one or two shady characters on here who you have to check,,,,I’ll add your name to the list
Met a bunch of guys from "Scotland Hinckley Triumph Owners Club" near the Tay bridge and had a run down to Bo'ness where "Café racer" hold an annual bike meet, this was the first run the SHTOC have organised so it was a decent turn out. bumped into @lexy and Mrs Lexy Motley Crew
Went for a ride out with my BiL it took longer than 2 hours 52 minutes i am by no means rapid but he is a veritable plodder!
I'm as good as it can be,still enjoying the Street Twin getting out as much as possibly,NC 500/Orkney in May with mrs Lexy on her Guzzi
Yes If you take the opportunity to improve the porting when you have the Cylinder Head off, then get it tuned to suit !
Still waiting for my auto sparky mate to finish tidying up my wiring and fix my ignition switch fault on my Speed Triple T509, even bought a new Arai helmet in anticipation
Ordered a Palmer products adjustable screen kit and accessory bar on Friday and blow me it turned up this morning at 7 AM. 30 minutes later had the kit fitted. Very well made, all stainless steel, no filing or bodging required. All fitting included so no delving in the toolboxes for washers etc. Must say it looks a bit GS style screen now. Had a short hour ride out and all i can say once adjusted via the quick knobs, i found the perfect setting. No buffering around my helmet and shoulders. I can even keep my visor open without water pouring from my eyes at 70 plus. Well worth the money and highly recommended. Will be a bonus on my yearly trip to non-Europe countries this year. Palmer products make many accessories for Triumphs. Heres a couple of pictures from their site as i forgot to take my camera.
Thanks for reply Capt'n do you mean getting the Dremel out and smoothing the inlet/ outlet of casting flaws?
Cleaned the air filter and fitted a sat nav power cable to my speed triple. Got the engine management light staying on on start up, had to to the start n cool x3 malarkey to get it to go off! Bit of a piss about, why do they do this?
After Easter weekend I'll also be able to tell you if the 765 is quicker than the 1050 in a straight line too - there's an S3 1050 entered in the same class as me at the Pod. Mine's standard and I've no idea yet what mods Jake's bike has. I'll keep you posted.
A dremel might do some good ! But I went out and bought a cheap air grinder and a suitable cutting tool to fit inside the inlet and exhaust tracts. I found the inlets were very poorly contoured/shaped ! The bottom of the tracts wasn't a very well shaped gradual curve , it had very sharp angle , so the air flow would be very poor. There was almost a ski jump there ! So an extremely sharp direction change which would cause very poor gas flow..! So look especially closely at inlets , exhaust's weren't too bad .. !
