Featured What you been doing with your TRIUMPH today??

Little spin to the coast to give the new comfort seat a test, as per pic - New mirrors on their way

 

Yesterday I met this dapper gentleman while in Scotland. Great to see you @Dougie D and thanks for leading our ride the day before

 

Sorry for putting this in this post but there’s no V8 made out of wood previous topic!
However, all bikers would appreciate this I’m sure.
makes a v8 out of wood!
Soooo clever. Only a young lad too.

 

Trog! Used to use that term at school! Excellent!

 

Great to see you guys again, it was a lovely run down to Braemar from Spean Bridge , i hope you all enjoyed the run down to Jedburgh yesterday and wherever you went today!

 

Handy phone box just in case it didn't start. Don't know who I'd call though.



Did it start - yep. Hooray. The charging is working. Hooray.

It's sprung another leak. Boo.

 

Well, that phone box contains bookshelves, so one might hope there would be a workshop manual for your bike in there .

 

Strangely I also found a phone box in the middle of a tiny village in the country today. It had a telephone inside! Dont think it had been used in years as it didnt smell of piss

 

Looks like ye olde posh Zumerzet village folk look after their phone boxes better than those people of the Corn. Books only but quite well painted. I like the original peely patina'd one with the beaten track through the undergrowth though.

 

Today Tigger was taken out for a quick spin - first time since it’s big service.

Before starting out, I noticed a squeak (real one this time) when wheeling it out of the garage. On hands and knees checking the brake pads (first guess at the problem) I noticed the ABS sensor was rubbing against the metal disk on the wheel. Turns out what I thought was a washer was a spacer. That was fixed quickly (and cheaply) by reinstalling properly.

The ride was awesome. Riding Tigger was like riding on a cloud - it was precise like a skate on ice, and absorbed quite significant bumps and potholes (that I couldn’t avoid) with aplomb. Virtually no vibration through the handle bars. A totally new experience.

I have had this bike since new and it has never been like this!

Since manufacture it’s had mismatched forks and (for a long time) buggered bearings that no professional mechanic found (but may have caused).

No wonder it was as wild as a mustang on acid before.

I‘m delighted with the transformation.

It’s now like a lamb on diazepam.

 

See, gotta do it all yourself. You do it at your leisure, it's a lot cheaper and you do it properly cause it's your beloved. Simples.

 

out for coffee nice day for a change

 

Nice weather, new jacket.
Perfect for after work ride. 250 km on Wednesday evening, 100km yesterday just after getting my second jab.

 

Then officially for internet world it didn't happened.

 

Weather crap so took the car for a full English

 

Where's the tomatoes and fried bread?

 

I don't do tomatoes or fried bread, they are bad for you....

 

J&S ?

 

Yep….