Featured What you been doing with your TRIUMPH today??

Maybe just start over from scratch?

 

Glad that you got out on your bike after a bit of a hiatus, @Oldskool. Good for the soul, eh? Nice write-up and photos on your 80-miler. I love the pic of your bike. Beautiful colors. Did you line the bike up with that grate on the road on purpose? Very nice.

 

Good choice, Duck. Nice to see you're getting your priorities squared away. Seems there are plenty of rainy days in your neighborhood to work on your bike. Make hay--and ride--while the sun shines!

 

What I just said about the sun.....never mind. Glad you and your bike are ok.

 

What mirrors are those, @Koko55? They look cool! As does your bike--as always.

 

After a bad start finding a pallet staple in my back tire/tyre , I had a great ride and meal and won 2 raffles.
Feeling very thankful


Lucky to miss the tube and sit in the tyre

Arrived after 2 hour journey

Scotch with mushroom sauce, Chips, eggs and salad

MBGFC

Leg of lamb, chicken, whitebait #27
Whole sirloin/porterhouse #37

 

The road just widens at that point, so it was a good place to stop. The grate was just a coincidence that I didn’t spot until I uploaded the photos. Needless to say the grate was full of leaves and doing nothing to catch rain . The photo doesn’t show how steep the hill is unless you line up the fence posts in the back ground with the edge of your screen. I wasn’t drunk when I took it honest.

 

At the moment our President announced 4 weeks full lockdown, I ordered a set of Daytona DT11 heated grip to have something to do on the bike next week ends..

 

Today I stripped my rear caliper... Been buying bits for a couple of weeks, new, seals, new pads, stainless pistons... Just had no time to do the job. Doing so much for other folk I've not had time to do my own jobs.

Still, I found out what the binding problem was. Whoever fitted the last set of seals didn't bother to a) clean and grease the slides, and, b) fit the bloody dust seals, so the ends of the pistons were full of shit.

Stripped down, took pads off... One locating tab on the pad was bent, and the friction material worn at an angle. Pulled the pistons, which were well stuck. No amount of compressed air was pushing them out, used internal piston pliers, as I was binning them anyway. Cleaned all the crap out of the dust seal groove, cleaned everything else out, fitted the new seals and pistons, fitted ebc pads and anti squeal plate (there wasn't one of them either) and refitted, bled, and road tested. Spot on!

Phew. An hour and £50 well spent.

The old pistons weren't as bad as I thought they might be.. A bit of pitting, but I "could" have reused them, but hey I had new ones.

 

Thanks Sandi,they are just off ebay,a very reasonable £7.97.Just the job

 

Just bought a starter motor... Second hand, so I can hopefully either recondition it, or swap it out and recondition mine as a spare. Mine sticks every so often, and I have to bump it in gear to get it out of that bit....

 

I have built a centerstand from SW-Motech under my 675...a quality stand but not so easy to fix it. I was missing my third hand.

 

Thanks for asking. Just got through riders course, she's now legal on the road. Looks like this weekend will be fit for riding. 60 degrees on saturday. Its been nothing but rain here this week.

You can read about the riders course https://www.thetriumphforum.com/thr...r-non-triumph-today.21073/page-42#post-484285

She did great in some really poor conditions. We had a ball.

 

Rear wheel is from a Harley Douche, 17 inch, tubeless, light as a feather. Been building choppers for a living since 79. Never felt the need to match front and rear wheels, especially since a spoked wheel on the rear of a rigid with a "substantial" rider on board tends to break spokes.

 

I did see and enjoy that post about the rider course in your link, crane operator. I hope that you get good weather this weekend and can get out with your daughter for a lovely autumn ride! We could use some of your rain here in southern AZ. We're drought central and the dust is so thick it makes it hard to tell what color your motorcycle is.

 

At last,I have a new seat,just waiting for some decent weather!

 

Great looking bike, I love it.

 

Looks smart @Koko55

 

Got to love a meat raffle
'Pleased to meet you and meat to please you'
If they don't say that at the off it's not a legit raffle. Rules are rules.

 

Took my lad to triumph Stoke to pick up his bobber, peed it down while he rode it home, but even piss wet through he was happy.

now needs to clean it