Featured What you been doing with your TRIUMPH today??

Well, I saw my Speed Triple loaded up and carted off earlier today to my local dealership which Mr. Sandi and I fondly refer to as "Triumph World". They'll work on getting my clutch problem figured out since a couple of recommended simple fix-at-home attempts didn't work. As I said in my post from Sunday, I'm hopeful it's a simple fix but am very glad that it's still under warranty. The service manager said that even though I bought my Speed Triple two years ago on Nov. 23rd, Triumph allows a 45-day grace period for the warranty so I had more wiggle room than I originally thought. Hopefully I'll have Speedy back and ready to ride by this weekend!

 

Good luck with your bike

 

Heated grip installed and working. Let the winter arrive, I'm ready!
Those Daytona DT11 are really neat. The integrated switch is really nice and discrete.

 

I've been looking at those very same Daytona grips for my bikes. How easy or difficult are they to install?

 

They are easy to install. Like all others heated grip you'll have to rework the throttle plastic tube to make it perfectly round and remove lines. In this kit no glue included. I personally use Loctite black silicone joint I had laying there , but adapted glue exists.
Electric connection is straight forward, thanks to the integrated switch.
I personally wired this on the accessory circuit, after a relay,
It can be connected direct to the battery. The grip wire having it's own fuse.
The overall quality feels great.

 

My other half has one of those. It's cool but my Arai still has plenty of life in it so I'm not changing yet.

 

Well not today but hopefully at the weekend I will finally adjust the Speed Twin rear shocks to see if it will stop it trying to put me in a hedge.

Have to take off the exhausts to do that! ( I'm going to snap my keyboard in half just thinking about that.)

 

Its not really though is it. Free of other twats on bikes holding you up filtering etc.

Although it was this month 6years ago riding into work on sheet ice I said, "WTF are you doing?" I had the chance also to get coach driven to work if I took a secondment. Took it and sold the hack.

I am now a fair-weather fairy/weekend warrior, trying to avoid being a statistic come March/April. Apologies in advance for my de-graded riding skills, poor decision making and down to a snails pace and 50 pencing round corners with a mere sprinkling of "rain."

Yours humbly.

 

Rebuilding forks and fitting a tyre.

 

An amazing transformation on the forks. Looks like hard work -not that that is a bad thing . . .

 

Enjoyed my ride out to do lockdown daily exercise !! Nice walk around the lake at Hardwick hall. Perfect end to a perfect ride

 

Good choice of crash helmet design there

 

yes it was, that's why i had to fit all the new parts

 

Agree!

 

been out into the yard and put the optimate on... does that count as doing something.... cold and foggy this morning - just under 4 deg C...thought not to risk it and the memsahib thought the bus the safer option too

going to remove, drain, refill and fit new springs in the forks tomorrow though..

 

I had a "cool" ride to work today. The temperature went from -2 to 1 degree Celsius (28,4 F to 33,8 F). It is a 60 km (37,2 mile) trip over the highway.
I love my onboard heat grips!!!

 

The sun is out the sky is blue, had a nice ride out today and took a couple of pics of Findhorn and Burghead Moray

 

I had to go to the hospital for a blood test today. Went the long way on the Thruxton. Stopped for a coffee and cake before the deed was done.. lovely

 

Church is holding a ride tomorrow, but it's not in the cards for me. Bikes are stored and my beloved wishes to visit her parents, who are not doing well.

"We dwell in the ugly house built upon the rock.
Come play at the beautiful house, built upon the sand"