Featured What you been doing with your TRIUMPH today??

Well yesterday was brilliant, a mate and I set off early doors from the North East Coast and trawled our way across country, up through Wenslydale, over Ribblesdale, Ingleton, Devils Bridge, Windermere, Keswick, Penrith, Brough, Kirby Stephen and then back down through Swaledale to Richmond and then home to the East Coast again.

Fantastic day.

Today was dull and cloudy but Mr Weatherman said less than 10% chance of rain so, Whitby, Pickering, Malton, stopped for some scran at Seaways Cafe, skirted the underside of York and on to Squires for a coffee.

Was tired so thought I'd just cruise the big roads home. Sky turned black at Wetherby and it lashed it down all the way to bloody Teesside. Two miles from home and it stopped raining.

Me boots are on the windowsill to dry off tomorrow and the rest of my gear is hanging up in the kitchen.

Bike looks like it's been ridden through a swamp, twice... Bugger, snarf, bumnuggets.

Cleaning day tomorrow then.

Piccie from yesterday.

 

Thanks @Chainbiter - other than the shitty weather, having smelly damp bike gear around the house, being forced to clean the bike (that’s twice this year?) and getting up early, it sounded a great day.

Please excuse my asking as I am doing so on behalf of our international community members, but could you explain bumnuggets?

Sounds like something best described in Roger’s Profanisaurus…

 

Aah, Bumnuggets...

Precisely and concisely but not necessarily in the correct order:

Bumnugget

An annoyiing clinker that's welded itself to your hairy arse after a deflatory cheek flubbering and odious enormous wet fart...

Very annoying

 

That bacon needs a bit more cooking for me, no crispy fat.

 

It's crispy or nothing!

 

Thanks for the photo of that "proper" bacon, @Dawsy! But what, pray tell, is that circular black thing on your plate sitting at about seven o'clock?? Love the bike photos, too, BTW. It's not always all about the food.

Edit: Well, on second thought, maybe it is always all about the food.

 

So did you send it back to be crisped up more after taking the proper bacon photo, Dawsy? And if you asked them to undercook it just so you could show me some proper shaped stuff, thank you. That was very sweet of you. And if you ate it "as is" and undercooked, it was doubly sweet!

 

That looks like a fun event! A terrific photo, too. I am REALLY missing bike nights. No one around where I live is doing them these days--due to Covid I think. So what kind of bikes did you see that were new to you??

 

The "circulair black thing" as you call it, would be "black pudding". Which is not pudding at all, but in fact blood sausage. Delicious!

 

I'll take your word for it being delicious, Vulpes, but I think I'd need to be blindfolded to try a "pudding" made of something called blood sausage. I'm a pretty adventurous eater, but could they not have left the word "blood" out of the name? Sounds a bit vampire-ish to me.

 

That's probably why it's euphimised (is that a word? ) to "black pudding" .
But do take my word for it - it IS delicious...

 

After a long outing on Monday I was rather uncomfortable in a very personal part of my anatomy and I was force to realise that seat seems to have sagged with use. Needing a quick fix for an 11 day tour starting next week I thought I'd get a gel seat pad.

That arrived today and I went for a test fide but it was awful. You are sitting on jelly and move around unnervingly under any sort of acceleration, braking or turning; it felt downright dangerous. So I replaced the gel with 1cm layer of high density foam left over from making Mrs Mouse's seat and that seems to have alleviated the, ahem, pressing problem.

A winter project for a proper solution will be to but some foam inside the seat. (I have a spare seat I can experiment with as this is the second one I've bought due to having a similar problem a year or so ago.)

Here's a picture of seat with pad I put foam in, raising me up and leaving more space for goolies. Expensive and useless gel thing on right.

 

Yes, I've been trying to sort a new seat for the T140 but can't find anything that fits or looks good. So I've three seats stuck up on the shelf now. I expect I'll be making my own as well with some glass fibre etc.

So thought I'd sort the Tiger out for the road. Put some petrol in it, started up and it ran lovely. Smelled something nasty - the bloody tank was leaking all over the front rocker cover and evaporating on the hot zorsts! This is the fourth time a leak has sprunged on this tank so it's demoted to the shelf as well. I'm sick of trying to mend it.

Another tank has been ordered and while I wait thought I'd think of a new paint scheme. I've got an unused peanut tank hanging around so sketched this onto it. Only roughly brushed out but it's nice for a Tiger on yer tank....

 

That looks awesome

 

Better late than never, right?!

 

As above due to existing tank leak. The tank I wanted is not available unless I want to have my trousers pulled down, so rather than sod about I ordered a sportster custom.
Delivered in a great big box with a tank sized box inside. Outside box all ok, inside damaged and, sure enough, tank is dented. Ok not bad so I'll fill and make good. I'll be using filler anyway to cover the stamp lines that these tanks all have anyway.
I'll also not be using the Pingel I have as it takes a standard 22mm. Aha, have one in the stash. That's handy Harry.



Have to weld on tabs to bolt into existing holes in frame. So ensure cut and welded at correct angle by using a length of tubing.



Cut required overlength tabs out of other length of tubing.



Position onto previous tubing and weld into place.



Using my 'amazing' welding skills. Weld up, shape with grinder and carefully measure four times and drill retaining bolt holes. Stand back and admire.



Of course there were problems in that the stopcock was a bit long, so the coils had to be moved down a tad. Which involved drilling and tapping spacers to suit. And I now require some screw in petrol caps.

So, got those ordered when ordering the tank (see, down there for dancing) and will now paint a few to match the bayonet ones I've already done.



I like to have a selection so the bikes look different each time I go out. Over...

 

Ha, workshop skills? I wish. I cobble stuff together as well as I can without any proper tools but I jump in where I shouldn't just because I can't bear that anyone else would fuck it up. At least I can kick myself.
But thank you Bikerman, I hope some of the stuff I do is a bit informative, a bit helpful and at least gives a few laughs cause I do stuff a few things up fairly regularly.

 

I had a short ride around the parish this afternoon. The local farmers are taking advantage of the current warm spell to get the rest of the grain harvest in and it was glorious to just pull up and enjoy the views over the hills in the mellow early autumn sunshine.

 

I did a little solo ride on Labor Day yesterday on my Speed Triple RS. My original plan had been to ride through Saguaro National Park on the west side of the Tucson Mountains but we had such a big storm the previous night that I was concerned that the roads out there would be in bad shape with dirt and gravel runoff. So I stayed closer to home and rode around the Tucson Foothills area at the base of the Catalina Mountains. There was gravel in some places but manageable and the traffic was pretty quiet since it was a national holiday. This ride marked three days in a row of riding which I've not done since we got home from our June tour. So each of my bikes got its "exercise" over the long weekend.

 

wow. Good idea?
suzuki mirrors he's using.