What You Been Doing With Your Triumph Today

Triumph Motorcycles
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I had a new set of Pilot Road 5’s fitted to my Thruxton yesterday. I had a family commitment so did not have time to scrub them yesterday so only rode home. So today I set off to run them in. I stopped for a coffee at my favorite burger van for a buttie and a cuppa.

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Bike is back in the garage with the tyres nicely run in and ready for a more spirited ride next time out.

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4 posts were split to a new topic: Scrubbing in Pilot 5’s

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Finished this one off. Gave it a run round the block and other than a few bits and bobs it’s done. :smiley:

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I’ve partially rebuilt it down to the top end and bare frame etc. Re-wired the positive earth loom using my trusty basic wiring diagram to negative earth.
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I drew this out as I found that I was always re-wiring from first principles every time I did a build. It’s based around a 3-way ignition switch (OFF, ON and LIGHTS) and I’ve included colours of the wiring that’s normally on items that are purchased for re-builds of this type including electronic ignition and speedos. I can now just work through it ticking bits off as they are wired up. Nothing stopping you doing that build now :slightly_smiling_face: crack on.

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A ride down to Sennon yesterday.

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Up to Padstow today.

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Weather looks good for your ride. Love the coastline photos :grinning:

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I’ve spent many a sunny afternoon in Sennen. Sunday lunch at the Old Success.

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:grinning: :+1:
New holiday apartments (I assume) where the pub carpark used to be now.

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There were a few apartments and a small car park when I was there but it’s been nearly 4 years now. I could rarely get in to park and had to stump up for the pay & display across the road.

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Well that saves you any frustration, no choice now. :grinning:

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I must get back down there sometime. This is the longest I’ve ever been away. No real ties there any more so no compulsion to visit, but I do miss it.

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Today I’ve just been using a ruler and calipers on my Speedmaster. To make sure today’s delivery will fit…

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I don’t plan on fitting it for over a month but thought I’d check that all looked sane.

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I was thinking of replacing the shock on my Street Triple for a Nitron one. No point in spending Ohlins money on it.

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These cost the same as Ohlins, or Matris, which are the other options I’d seen. But these are made to order and customised for your weight which I thought was the important thing, being as I’m larger than the average mouse, and also often ride with luggage and/or Mrs Mouse.

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I’ll have to take another look at it sometime. Maybe it was Hagon I was thinking of.

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Hagon was one of the brands I Googled for as I remember having some back in the day. However their website says ‘Under construction’ and ©2010, so that put me off. And I hate using the phone.

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Removed the wheels, cleaned them and dropped off for new PR5s. Changed oil and filter. Cleaned the calipers and ordered new pads. Norway beckons…

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Today, I’ve put my motorcycle shoes and my jacket to go to an appointment, then searched my keys, didn’t found them, and jump in my car without the motorcycle jacket , but forgot about the shoes…
So today I was really close to ride the Triumph…

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I wonder if the one l kept off my Sprint would fit? :slightly_smiling_face:

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Beats me. :slight_smile:

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Worth looking into. Be a lot cheaper than a new one, only done about a thousand miles…