Featured What you been doing with your TRIUMPH today??

Bike ceramic all finished. Looks too clean to ride now

 

Went for a ride to Sandbanks today,making the most of the bright weather,and curing,the exhaust wrap.MOT,2moro

 

Great pics Koko. You got a house down there???

 

I'm looking to get into buffoonery on my bike using a magic formulation kindly supplied by DD. Your tank looks as glittery as a diamond TCbanditUK........what cleaning compound did you use to obtain that sparkling finish please?

 

Nothing so far, it's just been resprayed and is being reassembled at the dealers (That pic is all I've seen of it so far )
The glitter is the metalflake in the Triumph Phantom Black base layer.

 

Finally got a ride in with the wrapped grips I posted earlier. The result was what I hoped, the larger grip diameter combined with the gel in the wrap was much better on my hands. No bunching of the heavier gloves and no aching or cramping in my hands. I also added to the bug collection.

 

I wonder whether you could achieve the same with (see link) ?

https://www.screwfix.com/p/self-amalgamating-rubber-tape-black-3m-x-25mm/2115v

 

I’ve used that for weatherproofing cable splices. It is a bit gummy when it gets hot and is not very tough. I put a layer of good cloth friction tape or vinyl tape over my splices. I wouldn’t think it would end up as squishy or last as well. Tennis racquet wrap would work I think.

 

Just had a Pirelli Diablo fitted to the front wheel of my Thruxton 1200, it took them 1 hour and 20 minutes!, I took the wheel in not the whole bike, when they’d finally done it he said “sorry it took a while, it takes a bit longer with inner tubes “ , now I’ve fitted inner tubes before and I recon it takes approximately 30 seconds, it stopped me complaining though because I was so amazed at the stupidity of his comment that I was lost for words!

 

Doesn't exactly inspire you with confidence, does it? I'd be wondering whether the person that has done it for the first time has nipped the tube getting the tyre back on................................

 

What they were actually doing was working on other bikes, I took a walk around the back of the workshop a couple of times and could see my wheel on the tyre changing machine, unattended, the boss is a mate but was away on holiday, I’ll have a word with him when he’s back.
I usually get him to do the work on my bikes but didn’t know he’d gone away for a couple of days, I’ll ring first next time!.

 

Purchased a cheeky little pipe for the speed rs....
Quality of the welding is exquisite.
Putting it on tomorrow with k&n air filter too (boring!)
I have a carbon heat shield on the way but it’s still not here.

 

That's a great paint job

 

It popped up on my Instagram feed from Bulldog Triumph...

 

It's a Street Triple version of the paintjob from my old race bike.

 

Dreaming about ‘er.

 

What stops wheel splash from getting into those relay bases Duck?

 

If it doesn’t fit maybe you just need a bigger hammer.