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I cannot express how pissed I am. I did a thread about 12 months ago titled you never know writing about how I rode my bike to work for one last time on a beautiful Autumn Saturday morning and then Suffered a seizure 3 hours later after arrival. I then went up to the local hospital which picked...

This is to pick the brains of all of you guys involved with the 60's model Triumphs, particularly the TT model which we didn't get in Australia. There is a guy with a 66 Bonnie for sale that has aluminium fenders, white tank with orange stripe down the middle (Like the TT) and correct 66 Tank...

Has anybody fitted the chrome aftermarket strip that is to replicate the trim used to cover the seam of the older bonnies fuel tank? Is it just stick on plastic chrome? does it eventually begin to lift, fade/discolour to yellow and crack like all of the plastic chrome products on the market...

I did this mod about a year ago but have just recently made up a grab rail which I thinks finished off what I felt was missing. I had never liked the look of the rear brake light on the bonnies with it being too large and cheap looking. The indicators I thought also looked out of place and cheap...

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Hi All, I have been cleaning up my bikes and removed a sticker from my black T100 tank that I had fitted about a year ago. I then polished the tank with a series of cuts and then a final polish, but what I can now notice on certain angles is a ghost shadow of the sticker that was there. I really...

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Hi all, I have just removed the swing arm from my 06 T100 and noticed that the right hand side swing arm pivot bush inserts (the ones pressed in the gear box housing) has for some reason sustained damage to the outer flange, with some pieces having broken away and what is remaining has hair line...

Hi all, I am not writing this to offend anybody but for ages I have been trying to understand the benefits of riding a scooter as opposed to a normal small cc size bike. I cannot really understand the little 50cc things that run on the smell of an oily rag because they go slow and cannot be used...

Hi I am in Australia (Queensland, Ipswich) and have a set of hardly used Sleepers ( the listing has finished on E-Bay) so I think it may be ok to list the item number so you can see some details and pictures (140898901311) and the price is $350.00 cheers TD

I am writing this not as a sympathy search but just to say you never know what is around the next corner of life but I have to say it is all about trying to live it to its fullest each day, which I don't mean by going a million miles an hour and trying to do everything it is about doing what you...

Did I see a link to some good ignition units somewhere? My 06 T100 is starting to run a bit crook and I think by what has been mentioned on other threads that the unit may be on the way out. It cuts out at lights sometimes if waiting a little too long (Idle is high enough), it sometimes just...

Thinking of getting Tiger 1050 and want to know if there is much difference with the current models and those of the previous few years and how far back would it be before there was a significant difference between models. I like the write ups of the current model but I don't think I could or...

How to be cool - Keeping both feet on the pegs whilst stationary at the lights and balancing until the lights go green and powering off How to be NOT cool - Falling over at the lights when trying to keep both feet on the pegs whilst stationary waiting for the lights to go green and then being...

I had a sticker on the head set of my Thruxton (05 model which I purchased in 2010) that was triangle in shape and had a white back ground and on it a picture of the Triumph "RAT" character, the number "05" and the words "Riders Association Triumph". What does this sticker mean and was it...

Had a lot of rainy days in a row the last couple of weeks so I haven't been able to hang my leather jacket out in the sun to dry completely and what I have noticed is that mould is beginning to grow out of the stitches. How do I stop this from happening, now and later on when it is damp again. I...

I have just fitted BC sleepers to my 06 T100 and removed the airbox which is now basically the same set up as my 05 Thruxton except that the Thruxton has Madaz mufflers fitted. I gave the bike to a local mechanic to set up the jets and give it a tune (Which I had him do only about 600Kms earlier...

Hi All, Must of had one of those away with the fairies idle moments recently, may have been when I was mowing the lawn, in a meeting at work or when the missus was talking and I had switched off but I thought gee the speedo mounted in the headlight bucket might look cool and that would be just...

Hi all, Just fitted a British customs air box eliminator kit to my 06 T100 and because the crankcase breather hose originally runs from the crankcase to the air box there is a breather supplied, but that is it, nothing else. The breather when fitted to the hose just flops around with no where to...

Is there any advantage in fitting the rear calliper above of the swing arm instead of below. I have seen a bonnie converted to an adventurer / trail bike and I understood this to be for better protection but I have also seen a scrambler come thruxton come track bike with a similar conversion.

Hi all, I am going to fit some progressive rate front springs in the front of the T100 and Thruxton and was after some opinions and facts on what brand of springs is the most recommended. What grade and Brand of oil is best suited, How much oil is needed (Metric), (I know I should look...

I have just fitted a BC air box elimination kit and I don't know if it is a related problem but for some reason I now have no start (nothing when the button is pressed), no indicators, no headlight, no brake light. I do have parkers and tail light but when I flick the light switch to high beam I...

Hi All, Just come up from cleaning my Thruxton for the Laverda show at Cleveland ( Who in SE QLD is going??) and I thought I would share with you a thing that I do that works fantastic with making your bike look really clean. When I wash my bikes I take off all the in the road bits that are...