Featured What you been doing with your TRIUMPH today??

I chocked back wheel with a scissor jack for mono, but use paddock stand for other maintenance.
From what I have read in your post it sounds like Triumph should take a look, to avoid any issues after trying to rectify it yourself, with such low mileage. I had rear disc rubbing after new tire change, but my disc is updated floating Brembo. I hope you find the cause @Herman66

 

I used plywood. I did a thread on the making of if.

 

P0230 - Fuel pump relay fault.
P1231 - Fuel pump relay open circuit.
P0562 ..... I think.. low voltage (a generic power code)

 

a good spray of WD40 on the white fuel pump connector needed by the sound...... odd about the V drop though..... makes me wonder about the diodes in the rectifier... I always wonder about the ones in mine - 20 years old now.. probably leaking to earth a bit with wear and tear and in need of replacing sometime... there's always something clamouring for my ( lack of ) money

 

Thanks dartplayer, how do you find the back brembo and have you thought about free spirits belt conversion?

 

Second day of non stop rain. Friday getting my tax affairs up to date, but today, garage time. Spent the morning clearing away tools and sorting crap for the tip. This afternoon fitted a Scottoiler V system to my 800. Took an easy 2 hours and now ready for our dash down to Land's End next Saturday. Thought it would be fun to do both ends of the country in the same year, having been home from Scotland a couple of weeks.

 

glad you've organised it that way round - the Scotland run this time of year would be cold and miserable....

 

We hit it lucky, some rain in the Lake District on the way up and pissed down all the way home, but can't complain. Lovely people, scenery and roads. Certainly going again soon.

 

it's rained every time i've crossed over the border...usually on the way back 8) ... but it is a lovely run up the A68 in summer 8)

 

I like having twin rear for the trail braking I use, but prefer the chain ons retro bike.
I did look at the kit though

 

Trying a little experiment. The grips on my Street Cup as well as all the Street Twin series are quite thin. With light weight summer gloves they are fine, but I’ve had issues the past two years riding with heavy duty gloves. They bunch up and make my hands ache and cramp. I do have arthritis issues as well. I have seen some companies selling a wrap to put on your grips to dress them up, and add some vibration dampening. The ones I’ve seen are mostly made of leather, and are pricey for what you get.
So, I fell back on my years of push bike mechanicing and got some synthetic leather bar wrap with a gel layer for about $25. Should be enough to do both sides about three times.


It took a few tries since I haven’t wrapped a handlebar in about 15 years, but I finally got the consistency I wanted. It did fatten up the grip a bit, and is nice and squishy.


I put on my winter gloves and tried it out, all the bunching is gone and the grips feel good. One of the issues with my hands is that after riding for a long time they start cramping so bad I can’t pull in the brake lever. The larger diameter and the squishier grip may fix this. After a road test I’ll know more, but for now I’m happy with the results. The perforated wrap looks pretty good as well. If anyone decides to try this it’s pretty inexpensive, can hide worn grips, and comes in a multitude of materials and colors.


Hopefully I’ll get a road test in the first of the week.

 

I agree

 

haven't done anything on it yet... but after a coffee I'm venturing out, taking the soaking wet cover off it and probably give it a start and a clean..... ooooh such is my hectic life these days.........

 

I fitted some Trip Machine leather wrap to my Street Cup as I also found the original a little on the thin side. I found it was a good improvement although they did get very wet last Friday and are still drying out LoL. I had a loan of a Street Scrambler whilst the Cup was in for service on Friday and this reminded me just how thin the grips are, also there seemed quite a lot of slop in the throttle (I put throttle spacers on the Cup and I find they work for me)
If you are getting numb/cramp then I would recommend trying the under gloves in this thread, I was skeptical to start with but they have made a real difference
https://www.thetriumphforum.com/threads/copperfit-gloves-no-numb-hands.25878/

 

Two issues i can think off are firstly one noise is the outer dust seals squeak and this can be cured by greasing them, i just spray chain wax on ours and the second noise can be sorted by just taking the edge off the rear pads.

 

Booked it an MOT coz I forgot it's due next week......doh!

 

After cotrol by police yesterday and the bike was a little bit loudcool....after 11 years the exhaust is not new...I fixed the problem totady with a used exhaust from ebay....only 11T km and the noise is ugly...but good for my moneybag.

 

Thanks@darkman, I have tried lubricating outer dust seal with wurth dry chain lube. I have just bought some wurth chain wax for the Winter so will try that.

 

The large relay on the far right looks to have a cracked case and maybe discolouration through overheating?

 

Sorry it wasn't that easy Duck.....just wondered whether it had welded its contacts shut which might explain the discharged battery.....ho hum.....good luck searching for the fault.......