Triumph 1 - 0 Falco

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HowardQ · #16 Post by **HowardQ** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 12:27 pm

D-Rider wrote:
Willopotomas wrote:Ah, you must be talking about the modern incarnation.. AKA Bloorumph. I'm talking about real Triumphs. Ye know, the reliable old donks from 40 years ago
.... back when Howard was not much younger than you are now ..... scary thought .....

back when "Triumph" looked like this:

rather than this:

yet not as good as this:

I would settle for auto-unfastening on the latter product.

Actually I'm mainly talking about a Triumph Tiger 110 of 1959 vintage, that I bought when it was 14 years old, (yeh that long ago Andy!), plus lot of other experience with Triumphs in the 60s and 70s, (OK Andy I'm off for my slippers and going for my afternoon nap, OOOOOPS nearly forgot, have to go for a pee first.).
(Second thoughts I spent too long typing this, so it's too later for that!)

HowardQ · #17 Post by **HowardQ** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 12:42 pm

Oh and finally I'm off to the historic bike meeting at South Leverton tonight!
There will be lot's of Triumphs and other oldies there, old gits and bikes.
We can all swap the usual stories about how we loved these old bikes and how we once managed an incredible journey all the way to the east coast and back, (about 75 miles each way), with no major breakdown and nothing too serious falling off other than the rider occasionally.
Although in some cases we did cheat as we went for a week and spent all the time there rebuilding it for the long ride back.

Willopotomas · #18 Post by **Willopotomas** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 6:00 pm

furygan man wrote:How's that 'Shock spanner' coming along Will??

Err..

I'll make ye one if you want mate. Is it an ohlins or other? The CAD i've got is for an ohlins (Andys)

Aladinsaneuk · #19 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 7:23 pm

Was the suspension better though?

furygan man · #20 Post by **furygan man** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 7:56 am

Willopotomas wrote:
furygan man wrote:How's that 'Shock spanner' coming along Will??
Err..

I'll make ye one if you want mate. Is it an ohlins or other? The CAD i've got is for an ohlins (Andys)

Willopotomas wrote: As for the c-spanner.. I'll make you one. If it's the same as Ohlins shocks, I already have the CAD as I made Mr Rider a couple about a year ago.

Aladinsaneuk wrote:Was the suspension better though?

Haven't adjusted it yet as still not getting my head around the whole thing, will get a spanner off Ebay, seeing Griff in a couple of weeks so will get him to run over it one more time...i think the suspensions correct i just think it's some of the odd Yorkshire roads that Herbacious takes me around!!

Aladinsaneuk · #21 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 9:59 am

lol np

was actually meant for will - we had a little play with the falco's rear shock when he was visiting us and was curious to see if the minor adjustments i had made had been noticible

Willopotomas · #22 Post by **Willopotomas** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 6:02 pm

Willopotomas wrote:
I'll make ye one if you want mate. Is it an ohlins or other? The CAD i've got is for an ohlins (Andys)

Remember that, but don't remember being informed about the nut being the same as an Ohlins. Can rattle one off tomorrow if you're passing.

Aladinsaneuk wrote:Was the suspension better though?

From what Lee (me mate) said, yes. Softened the back up a touch and made it a bit more ridable. I'm yet to try it out for myself though.