Twenty hours to go

i've always done this, and it's been fine.. the trick is to peel the
label really slowly over a few minutes, and keep the hairdryer going
during the entire process even though it burns your fingers.

Skin grows back and is cheaper than £90.

 

ISTR the running in recommending the first hundred miles being below
some stupidly low rpm, which was about 60 in top.

Bring it on, big boy!

 

a) Modern engines don't need ;running in;.
b) I'm sure my 955 ST would do 80 at the recommended max revs for the
first few nudred miles, so I wouldn't have thought yours would only do
60.

 

Well, there was a big **** off sticker on the tank giving recommended
max revs for 100 miles, 500 miles and 1000 miles. It seems TOG has the
same on his Street Triple.

I'm sorry that I didn't just ask you first rather than defer to
Triumph's recommendations.

 

My Triple was only doing about 60ish at the recommended revs.

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Same on both my Triumphs as well.

We did this a while back. The sticker might be written by the marketing
/ legal people. At the end of the day, it doesn't exactly take a huge
time to do 1000 miles. Live with it, or ignore it. I don't suppose it
makes a huge difference.



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Yeah, I know!

Mine clocked over the 1000 miles on the way to the hotel on the TOG
Tour. I'd had the bike about a week (or just over, IIRC).

difference.

I'm not against having recommended running-in intervals. Some people
will stick to it religiously, some say **** it from mile 1. I pitched
somewhere between the two, but I did stick to it for the first 100
miles as it seemed set low enough to be important, IYSWIM. I was a bit
more liberal once I'd done over the 100, and even more so once over the
500.

 

Which is what mine's doing. God, it's boring.

 

Triumph says they do... so I'll go with what they say. But IKWYM.

 

Won't take long.

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Troo. Got a couple of hundred miles clocked up already. I had to laugh
at the toolkit, btw. I thought the Ducati's was minimalist, but the
Triumph contains a single allen key and a single tommy bar to allow
you to lift the tank (to access the fusebox, I think). That's it. Not
even a plug spanner. Not even anything to adjust the chain.

The days seems to have arrived when motorcycle owners are not intended
by the factory to touch anything, but to leave it to their dealer.
Actually, given the butchery I've seen inflicted on even quite new
bikes, it's probably not a bad idea :-/

But BMWs still come with a decent toolkit (probably one of the best
fitted to modern bikes, IMHO), and the handbook tells you how to
remove the wheels etc.

If manufacturers aren't going to include even basic tools with their
bikes these days, I'd like to see them replace the tools with a
tubeless puncture repair kit. AFAIK, BMW is the only builder to
acknowledge the existence of punctures.

Back in the days, the Commie bikes used to come with amazing toolkits.
I remember Cossack toolkits would just about allow you to strip the
entire bike. Mind you, you probably needed to. And Jawas and MZs used
to have puncture kits and even tyre pumps. Commie cars were similarly
well equipped, I remember.

Straw poll: your main bike: decent toolkit or not? What does it allow
you to do and what can't you do without adding more to the kit?

 

How would I know? I've only had it two years, FFS!

 

I don't think I've ever opened the toolkit TBH. I know it was getting
in the way when I fiddled around with the snotoiler.

 

Doesn't help you to get the seat off, that much I do know

 

Getting the seat off is a piece of piss!

Getting it back on, however...

 

Well, would you want to break down in the middle of the steppes, with
no AA/RAC and have to leave your pride and joy Lada by the side of the
road ... ? F*cker would be stripped or you'd die of hypothermia in
short order ..

I don't carry anything with me, though I should take the puncture
repair kit I suppose. I do all my spannering at home, in the garage
rather than by the side of the road

Paul.

 

Ideally, yes. It handles nicely. But my commute is out of London, M25,
dual carriageway, and into Tunbridge Wells. Not much scope, except for
the M25/A21 intersection, which is a nice 270 degree left-hander.

 

The GS500 comes with a half decent kit.
2 * double open end spanners
2 * box spanners and bar
C spanner for shock adjustment
Pliers and double screwdriver.

Probably more than enough for roadside repairs, for anything else I break
out my decent toolkit at home.
A tyre kit would be nice to have, plenty of room under the seat but
nobody thought of it.

 

There are lots of shiny things in it, all wrapped up in a plastic pouch.
I've adjusted the chain using it when I couldn't find my other spanners.

I've not managed to balance the carbs with it.[1]

[1] Although this has less to do with the tools, than the tool holding the
tools.

 

Information received[1] suggests it is because mechanical knowledge
was part of the test in the USSR (and possibly other countries under
their influence), including, for example, knowing how to set points,
adjust drum brakes, be able to top up fluids (and drain oil, as well
as knowing quantities required), change filters, change a wheel and
know tyre pressures for your vehicle and being able to indicate which
tools were required for each job.

[1] Chatting to a local, in Moscow, in January 1980.