Featured What you been doing with your TRIUMPH today??

Am very fortunate to have just picked this up, back on a Triumph after 3 years.

 

Looking great! Have fun with that mate!

 

Very nice! Enjoy.

 

@Gary_P: Congratulations! Great looking bike! Enjoy it!

 

From my shift a couple of days ago…

 

Put on some headlight protector

 

Not today but would last week be OK?
Three more pictures and a write up to follow if a tech dummy can manage it.

 

The rest,
I went to the first Antler Rally at Kilchoan on the Ardnamurchan Peninsula in 1972 and didn't get farthest travelled so I went again in 1975 and tried to do the four corners on the way but problems with the T110 meant that I didn't get to the top end. The next year on a more reliable Suzuki GT750 I got as far as Inverness before beaten by time but got the farthest travelled both times. all told I attended all the first eleven Antlers.
2022 as birthday treat for myself I left home at 4am on Wednesday to Ardnamurchan Point,- Dunnet Head,-John O'Groats,-Lowestoft,-Lands End,-lizard Point and arrived at the Fosse Riders Clubroom in Leicester at 8.30 on Saturday morning. Job done 4 corners and end to end in one hit,, can I retire now?

 

@BATEBY45 I reckon you can retire now, yes . What a feat - I have just had to Google the Antler Rally and educate myself!!

 

STS self cancelling turn signal module. Not an easy one but some 4 hours with test bulb, soldering iron and shrink hose it's done. Just a short test run but works as expected.

 

Well done, that's a great achievement, what was the total mileage? PS hope the weather was kind for you!

 

Thanks, a little rain on the A12 otherwise fine, very windy down the A9 coast road but sunny mostly. Total mileage 2,352 average speed over the 50.6 hours of travel time was 45.6 mph.
I don't recommend Cornwall's back roads in the dark but theA30 was brilliant day and night.

 

How was the road to Ardnamurchan? i did it years ago on a sports bike and hated the single track road,ive never been back since, although i have been wanting to go again now that i have a more suitable bike.it would only be a 300 mile or so round trip so it would be a nice days ride

 

I've never been that far out west, but coming through Morvern down to Lochaline, then west to Drimnin, have taken the ferry to Kilchoan. Morvern is just gorgeous. From Lochaline you could take the Fishnish ferry and explore Mull.

 

Cheers Wim, I might just do a detour before going to Arnamurchan

 

If you do, Dougie, make sure you have a look at Kinlochaline Castle. Wonderfully done up. It was a ruins when I first saw it.

 

Put the triple in for a 3rd annual service and mot. It's done 2030miles from new, never seen wet road, pads changed 1000miles ago after the recall. Got a phone call 90mins after leaving the dealership saying everything was ok but the technician says the brakes are a bit "mucky" and did I want the have them cleaned, only an hours labour,,, ffs what is going on with main dealers,? Its shit like this that rip my knickers.
With my last speed triple the same dealer when doing the 2nd service said I should have the calipers lubed as they hadn't been done from build, I said you done the PDI, missed this and want me to pay!!! I went back to Triumph Glasgow only because after going bust I hoped that they might have improved, sadly not. Will be looking for a good independent from now on.

 

In a similar vein, the dealership I use to service my car are obsessed with telling me that I need / fitting without asking (refund obtained...) new windscreen wiper blades even when the ones I have on are new and not smearing when I clear the screen.

 

@BATEBY45: Nice photos! I love lighthouses!