Bugsy Posted May 6, 2007 Share Posted May 6, 2007 Out for a ride the other day, brilliant conditions and hot dry roads. Stopped for fuel on the way home, paid for fuel, pressed starter, nothing [:@]. After a bit of waggling wires under the fairing it started. Got home and began a search for the problem. In a slow process of elimination I had removed the whole fairing..............................[IMG]http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p211/Bugbear2/Bikeinbits.jpg[/IMG]Couldn't find the fault although it would start by shorting out the starter solenoid. I also had no horn. I posted the problem on the Triumph site and had the answer in an hour. Follow the wiring loom from the left handlebar down to the first multi-connector. Feel along the loom and you will find a small joint (two wires crimped to one). Found it, cut open the loom sleeve and there it was.......................[IMG]http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p211/Bugbear2/Foundit.jpg[/IMG]Now I would never have found that without help, aren't forums wonderful...........[:)][:)]All back together now and ready for our trip on Thursday.[IMG]http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p211/Bugbear2/Sprint.jpg[/IMG] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f1steveuk Posted May 6, 2007 Share Posted May 6, 2007 you should try owning a Ducati! I fitted new brake pads, and it wont start....................[8-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wobblemonster Posted May 6, 2007 Share Posted May 6, 2007 Mechanical failings are something Honda riders know nothing about[:D][;-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugsy Posted May 7, 2007 Author Share Posted May 7, 2007 a classic example of tempting fate there, me thinks.........................[:D][:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob T Posted May 7, 2007 Share Posted May 7, 2007 Bugbear, is the direction of rotation correct on the front tyre in the first picture? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianf Posted May 7, 2007 Share Posted May 7, 2007 Get a bicycle, much quieter and healthier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugsy Posted May 7, 2007 Author Share Posted May 7, 2007 Yes it is but, I thought that when I first saw them. They are the new Michelin Pilot Road 2's.[IMG]http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p211/Bugbear2/road2rid-web.jpg[/IMG]This is from Michelins own website.............................. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LesFlamands Posted May 7, 2007 Share Posted May 7, 2007 I think the manufacturer should be shot for putting a joint like that inside the loom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugsy Posted May 7, 2007 Author Share Posted May 7, 2007 [quote user="ianf"]Get a bicycle, much quieter and healthier[/quote][IMG]http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p211/Bugbear2/Tour-de-France-Crashes-Worries-the-.jpg[/IMG]Of course they are...................................................[:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianf Posted May 7, 2007 Share Posted May 7, 2007 Your posted picture is of a top-end professional cycle race. I have seen such carnage and deaths even in top-end motorbike races. I am talking about everyday cycling, not racing! Come to think about it not a lot of people seem to know the difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob T Posted May 7, 2007 Share Posted May 7, 2007 Ian, When have you seen deaths (plural) in modern motorcycle racing? I would like to know as I must have missed them and watch loads of motorcycle racing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianf Posted May 7, 2007 Share Posted May 7, 2007 You obviously know motorbike racing better than I do, but I seem to recall many tales from the Isle of Man, besides which there have been a few on the local roads around here as the idiots think it is clever top drive their noisy absurd machines at speeds in excess of 100mph on our country roads. One of the local roads has the national record for speed in a police speed trap on a motorbike. I think it was 165mph. I regard these people with the utmost contempt. But I'm sure you guys treat the roads and your fellow road users with respect!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob T Posted May 7, 2007 Share Posted May 7, 2007 [quote user="ianf"] I seem to recall many tales from the Isle of Man,[/quote]One should never listen to tales where motorbikes are involved, they are quite often lies put about by people who think that bikes passing their houses are doing 100mph when in fact they are the local youths on 125s with noisy exhausts and are only capable of 65 mph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugsy Posted May 7, 2007 Author Share Posted May 7, 2007 Pretty good hi-jack Ian....................................[:(] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samanta Posted May 7, 2007 Share Posted May 7, 2007 [quote user="wobblemonster"]Mechanical failings are something Honda riders know nothing about[:D][;-)][/quote] [;-)] Unfortunatley I need my Duke to appreciate my honda!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samanta Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 [quote user="Bob T"][quote user="ianf"] I seem to recall many tales from the Isle of Man,[/quote]One should never listen to tales where motorbikes are involved, they are quite often lies put about by people who think that bikes passing their houses are doing 100mph when in fact they are the local youths on 125s with noisy exhausts and are only capable of 65 mph.[/quote] ...and here's me thinking they were mopeds!! nice Truimph Bug bear - I shall keep an eye out for you!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f1steveuk Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 I've studied that first picture for two days now. I can identify with the cardborad on the floor, keeps you clean, and any little bits safe. I did my apprenticeship with a Rolls-Royce garage, so my tools would be lined up (sad I know, but that's how we were trained!!). The cloth to keep everything clean, and to clean eveything that wasn't. Yep with you there. I just couldn't work it out, then it occured to me. Where's the mug of tea!!!!! I couldn't cotemplete a job with a mug of tea, give the job obe good coat of looking at, then in, followed ny? More tea! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugsy Posted May 8, 2007 Author Share Posted May 8, 2007 I cropped it out Steve, it was just to the right of the can of brake cleaner at the front of the photo....................[:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunday Driver Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 Not many flies in that radiator - you're obviously not riding it enough....[:P] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugsy Posted May 8, 2007 Author Share Posted May 8, 2007 I'd just blown them out with an airline Dave, honest..............................[Www]I did find a couple of BMW's in there too..................................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianf Posted May 9, 2007 Share Posted May 9, 2007 I see a motorcyclist, John Donnan, was killed at the weekend in the Supersport 600 race at Tandragee (Ireland). Who says deaths don't happen in motorbike races! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugsy Posted May 9, 2007 Author Share Posted May 9, 2007 I don't think anyone has ever said that Ian but you can be sure that that rider would not be full of drugs as you frequently find in top level cycle racing.Are you just trying to be provocative Ian, or have you just got nothing else to do. This post is clearly in Motorcycling, started as a fault-finding exercise and yet you seem intent to turn it around to a completely different subject. You clearly have some problems with motorcycles so why not start a different thread on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f1steveuk Posted May 9, 2007 Share Posted May 9, 2007 My other half works for the ambulance service, if you add injuries to deaths, there are more call outs for cycling incidents that motorcycles. End of subject? (Bet not!!!)Airbrush out a mug of tea! How big was the mug, this id directly proportional to how long a job takes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Winegum Posted May 9, 2007 Share Posted May 9, 2007 Bugbear, I just love your bike, very sleek! I'm also partial to the Triumph Daytona. Oh and as far as all this talk of people getting killed on bikes goes I didn't hear of any bikers killed this week, but there were six people killed in one fell swoop on the M25 this week in the cab of a recovery vehicle, plus three in an Escort in Cambridgeshire. I darsay speed was involved with the Escort with 4 teenagers in it, lord knows what happened with the recovery vehicle which ran into the back of a lorry - maybe careless driving? Who knows.I feel safer on my bike - more able to dodge the dodgy motorists!Jude[:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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