v-twins, retros and a 4 ride

or maybe it should be called the 4 suzuki's, 2 yammies and a kwaka ride
......

any how - good ride today - boo hiss to all of those who slept in or missed
it

ususal suspects

me - r6
el dave- renaissa
owen - yellow tls, very nice bike, well done
other dave - red tls , nice to put name to face
matt mcleish - dl650 , enjoying a ride before his second is born
popeye - gsx750
cathi - z500

out to 2j via gnanagra road, gnh (still heaps pf roadworks there, just south
of bullbrook) , then chittering valley road , julmar rd, west toodjay rd and
then into town. heaps of bike already in town. coca cola cafe has moved and
got bigger, food seems the same which is either a good thing or a bad thing
depending on your pov.

from there to northam via the clackline road , northam to york via spencers
brook rd for a short drink n chat and then from york to the lakes and then
back to perth via the geh which is still under constructions but in places
is a very nice smooth road.

no one fell off or afoul of the law.

goo ride, good company , good day ;-)

http://s20.photobucket.com/albums/b216/corks67/2j ride 020406/?sc=6


corks

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Nice one

http://www.virtualschool.edu/mon/Quality/PirsigZen/

"When I ride my bike I set off from A and hope to get back to A.I
don't do alphabets"

Shep©

 

I heard a group of bikes going down the Valley road from my place yesterday.

Roadworks on GNHwy have been going on now for seven years. Sigh.

Theo

 

could have been us , but there were a fair few bikes out n about y/day

 

That,"Thruxton" looks brilliant

 

pity about the clutch lever ......and aftersales service

 

call me the biggus ( i think thats right) of triumphs

 

Triumphs are great as long as you don't let the dealer's spannermonkeys
anywhere near them...

 

Heh.Heh.I run two 25 year old + CX500s.Aftersales service is in me
garage ;-)
http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/cx500/cx500.html

 

In aus.motorcycles on Tue, 04 Apr 2006 13:42:32 +0100

Hurrah the maggot!

I suppose with 2 of them, you can always have the alternator out of
one....


Zebee

 

Mine wasn't great.

OK... it was fun when it was running, but I had numerous problems.

Porous (sp?) front wheel casting.

Preature rusting of many bits.

The alternator was too small to keep the battery charged with the
headlights on high and the (factory!) heated grips on so I kept having
to charge the battery which meant going through batteries about every 9
months for 3 years.

The paint scratched very very easily (much easier than any other bike
I've owned).

The fuel gauge warning light was completely useless, came on anywhere
between 60kms and 300kms. The kit to fix this was not good, it caused leaks.

That'll do for now....


G-S

 

What model was it?

The only prob mine had from the factory was the earth block problem.

On separate occasions the spannermonkeys fucked my water pump, uploaded the
wrong tune, bodgied the earth block fix, gave it back after a valve job with
a noisy valve and an inability to idle and missed every factory recall fix.

Now 80,000+ kms and still going strong...when I finish the service...

 

Sprint ST955. 1999 model.

 

The list of things which went wrong with my T595 seemed never ending. It
never seemed to ride the same two days in a row. Oh, that's if it actually
ran at all two days in a row. Earth plug burnt out, 5K flat spot (which no
tune downloads addressed to my satisfaction), numerous other electrical
problems (both pre and post ground plug burnout), throttle grip snapped and
jammed throttle two thirds open (had to ride home with clutch and kill
switch), every time non-triumph mechanic opened it up the CPU logged a fault
which could only be cleared with the Triumph "Gameboy" thing, and on and on
and on it went.

Never again .... the horror .... the horror ..... the horror .....

MIKE

 

Luckily the UK 500s don't seem to have the alternator problem that the
bigger 650s seem to suffer from.

There wasn't as many 650s sold over here as in Aus according to the
Aussie CX/GL forum,

http://groups.msn.com/AustralianHondaCX500CX650Register/messageboard

Note:Some of your roads are longer than the British isles :O

 

Ahhh Yes!

I'd forgotten about that... you can add that to my list of 'Triumph
Problems' as well.

It was a right pain... locked you into dealer servicing which made
owning the thing twice as expensive.


G-S

 

Easily fixed... www.tuneboy.com.au

 

Easily but not cheaply.

$310 US or about $500 Australian, just so I can pay the local dealer to
service the bike instead of having to ride it 120kms to Melbourne.



G-S

 

Cost me $400 plus postage just over a year ago. Less than what the dealer
charges for a major "service".

Found that the dealer had uploaded a tune for the early cams and high level
c/f pipe when mine is later cams and low c/f pipe. Had the 9860 in it, I
uploaded the 9862. Much better...I'll throw it on the dyno next time I'm in
Adelaide and get the fuel mapping tweaked too.

Freedom isn't free... ; )

 

Just needs constant maintenance as does any good bike ;-)