Featured What you been doing with your TRIUMPH today??

Me and the wife had an all day breakfast at Fourways / J&S. Lovely ...

 

Well done Ron.

 

The holes are probably filled with tank sealer
You might have to tap them

 

Hope you ordered welding mask as well mate?

 

Tap and die set for making/cleaning threads

 

Tap them as in Tap & Die set if they have screw threads

 

Presumably you know how to weld? If you haven't you'll find it's rather tricky and a fair bit of practise is needed before your fabrications look half decent.
Like you, I've thought about making headlight brackets. I've found a set I like, from Down & Out in Rotherham, but they're £98!! So I've decided to take my scale drawings (copied from the D&O brackets) to a local small-item fabricator. They operate out of a lock-up in Stockport and seem to know what they're doing. I'll see what they say and ask for a price.
Take care with that welder, the NHS is overloaded as it is, without adding you to a trolley in a corridor

 

Aye Duck useful for cleaning out threads and re-cutting them

 

Washed the crap off the bike after a short ride. Dried it (Chris Newbigging, editor of Practical Sportsbikes, uses a leaf blower..good idea). Polished the tank and side panels (Autoglym), then used WD40 on the whole exhaust system, matt black engine cases, black fork legs and black wheel rims to give a nice sheen.

 

Duckadiledundee

remember to use welding goggles or a mask, especially if arc welding as arc eye is a bitch

practice on bits of scrap metal

 

sounds like you have the matter in hand, and as you posted earlier, an angle grinder can be your friend

 

Yes, never look at the weld without protection or you will suffer.

 

If possible could you post a short film of your first attempt, I think our viewers might find it extremely entertaining

 

I went for an early start this morning, mate said see you about 6-6:15 for a ride to Dwellingup for Breakfast at the Blue Wren Cafe , was an excellent breakfast

The ride back was funny , turned on Bluetooth on phone and helmet , Google maps for the ride home , went a little wrong
The girl went silent mode at two junctions so we ended up doing about an 8 KLM loop when one right turn would have done it in 800 metres .
Got there in the end.
Double Demerits this weekend as it's Australia Day tomorrow.

Saw 3 Highway Patrol cars and 3 speed cameras !!
Did a tad over 400 klms (250M)
Mate was on a HD886 sport and I took my 98 Sprint. Got back home after 12:30 so 6 hrs of which about 5 were riding , breakfast took nearly the whole hour 9:30 till 10:30 , as my mate Garrick was catching up with an ex work colleague who bought the Cafe three months ago.
Had a good chat with several riders at the cafe.
Home now and that grandaughters are here .

Cheers capt

 

Eventful day out @capt ......

 

Yup and I won't mention all the tossers and dick heads we had to avoid !!

No wonder they have double demerit points on public holiday long weekends !

You wouldn't believe how many cars over took when we were doing the speed limit !

But ~40 years of riding you learn ... Until you're almost psychic

 

Every time I get bike out I knock the mirrors, so they regularly become loose and I don't always have an allen key conveniently to hand; today I did something about that. For the price of 2 hacksaw blades I now have a 6mm allen key that's just big enough to be useful and small enough not to do too much damage to me should I have an off. And I can keep it with my keys so it handy when I need it

 

This might be the opening scene:-

 

Plan today was to give the Street Triple a small service, plus one quick and simple (well that's what I thought ) job on the Bonneville...


On the Bonneville there is a rubber cover on the oil pressure switch which had perished and was falling to bits. It has been annoying me for months, so today I though I'd do that first, just a screw and a plug...easy...but the only way to get at the screw means tank and seat off, and carbs moving out the way


Just to replace this...


Got it done, and my OCD is appeased...


All back together again...


Then finally on to the Street Triple, cleaned calipers, replaced pads and pins, flushed/replaced fluid...


Nice clean fresh brakes...


Oil, filter and air filter left to do tomorrow.

 

Had a few jobs to do in various places across the north west today, so with the roads and weather dry I pulled the tiger out and went about my tasks. It is so much more fun travelling around on the bike than in the car. A little cool, but not cold so did not even need the heated grips.