What did you do to your bike today ??

[D6Nutz]

Sorted the insurance for another year.

Found out my shed is classified as secure and it has an alarm so that made the insurance company happy. They dropped the renewal by £100 to just over £200 fully comp, so decided to check a multi bike policy to include the KTM. Nearly fell off my chair when it was only £30 more for both fully comp. Happy days.

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[Kwacky]

I took the angry hornet out for a spin. The usual route of Quatt and the Old Ludlow road. I've not ridden the MV for a while so I wanted familiar roads while we got reacquainted.

Blind overtaking by cars seemed to be very popular today.

[Kwacky]

A nice run out with Cookie around Craven Arms.

Saw a very lucky biker take a head shot from a pheasant. He managed to stay on. We pulled over to check he was ok. Shaken with a sore neck was the extent of his injuries.

[C00kiemonster]

A nice run out with Cookie around Craven Arms.

Saw a very lucky biker take a head shot from a pheasant. He managed to stay on. We pulled over to check he was ok. Shaken with a sore neck was the extent of his injuries.

He was a nice bloke. He will have sore neck tomorrow imo.

[StMarks]

A nice run out with Cookie around Craven Arms.

Saw a very lucky biker take a head shot from a pheasant. He managed to stay on. We pulled over to check he was ok. Shaken with a sore neck was the extent of his injuries.

I remember reading a couple of years back about a rider who was killed by a pheasant. Went out for a summer ride, and never came home. When they found the bike crash scene, apparently there was the remains of a pheasant embedded into his visor.!

I've never hit one myself, thank goodness. However living where I do I have had to duck a few times for flying creatures, have hit a rabbit/hare mid corner (nearly took me out, they make one hell of an impact for such a small animal ) but my primary nemesis is all the deer.
The close calls I have had from deer are too many to recall, I'm fairly convinced one will catch me eventually.

[kiwikrasher]

Jesus! A pheasant!! He’s lucky to get away with that!

[kiwikrasher]

Not today but on the weekend..

With all the stress life is throwing my way I thought a couple hour blast on the Thruxton was in order. It’s been about 4 months since I took it out.

Seemed really slow to start, heaps of battery and cranked fine but didn’t want to fire. Finally got it going and headed of down the mountain. Was about half full so 10 km in topped the tank up.

5 mins to get the thing to fire again. Every stop I did it stalled out. Started ok most times. Decided to head back home. Any full throttle was causing it to mis and splutter. Got worse and worse and barely made it home.

Haven’t touched it yet to work out what’s going on and unfortunately the whole episode put me in a worse mental state.

So finally over COVID, I decided to crack on and find out what the issue was. Bit of research and a known issue with these bikes is the spark plug caps arching out onto the engine. There has been a superseded cap that sorts this issue. Sure enough, mine are the old type and found them both to be arching out!

Unfortunately no stock in Australia and Triumph Australia said 6-8 weeks lead time Found them available through World of Triumph in the UK, 1/3 of the price I was quoted by Triumph Australia, and here in 2 weeks

Incidentally found the cooling fan wiring mis-routed and melting on the exhaust balance pipe. Luckily it had only melted the outer insulation sheath and the wire insulation was still fine. Tested the fan direct off the battery and runs fine.

Hopefully all back and running 100% in a couple of weeks!