Triumphrat

jrussell6 · 10-04-2006

so,, i've had this thing for two months,,, 4500 miles, my dealer is good in personality,, but slow as mollassis, i know i spelled that wrong, but anyway,,, a week and a half ago (sunday) i droped my bike off at the dealer because i was riding and it started going "thwackity thwackity thwackity thwackity" but only under accel, soooooo
it's now a week and a half later,, where i've been taking the bus everywhere,ewww

last tues,, them "i started it up and didn't here anything,, sounds fine"
me " please take it for a ride,, i promise you it sounds like a train, get it to 30 in first and accelerate hard to 45, i promise you'll hear it."

last fri them "yeah,, i took it home with me, 45 min trip, and after it warmed up i did hear a little of something, not sure what it is,, doesn't seem to be valves to me, the bike wouldn't be running well at all, and it's runing fine, but i'll tell ya what, were real busy and won't have a chance to look at it untill tues, but we'll take the valve cover off and see what's goin on" note: the owner who took my bike home is an ok guy, but rides bikes like grandma probably never goes past 1/8 turn on a speedy throttle.

me" roll my eyes,,, thanks,,, "

yesterday,,, them,, the head mechanic a friend of mine " yeah, i took a ride on it just because i wanted to know for myself, so it's not anyone elses word on what it sounds like, and i'll admit at first it sounded just fine, but after about 15 minutes i did hear something, but i personally highly doubt it's valves, maybe something crankshaft, you were a quart low on oil when it got in here "
ME "WHAT, two freaking weeks ago i asked for an oil change and that guy up front said i didn't need it at 4000 miles, even when i said, i'ld rather be safe then sorry" he said it was fine.
Mechanic: i know, but you should still check it on your own, but that aside, i think that because you were so low oil wasn't reaching the pump while you were wheelieing around. which i'm goint to neglect to tell anyone, but i think that's what happened.
me: thanks for supporting me, but it's not my fault even if i was wheelieing around, so what's next...
Mechanic: alright, i'm goint to talk to the owner in the morning, and depending on what triumph says we'll probably look at the cams and valve train just to knock that off the option block, but i don't think triumph will let me do exploritory if it's not there. so if we don't find anything tommorow then we'll probably give it back to you and tell you to ride it till either nothing happens,, or it gets worse and we can find where it's really gone wrong.
me: if you give me that bike back, and it "get's worse" while i'm 130 miles an hour, and i get even a scratch on me,, i'm sueing your boss and he'll pay for my kids college.
mechanic : well, i'ld advise against doing 130, that would get him out of the lawsuit,, keep legal speeds, and you might have him. but look, i didn't say this,, but if you start to hear something bad again or feel something, pull over to the side of the road, put it in neutral and pin it till something is really wrong. that way there's no questions about it... but i definatly did not say that.

TODAY, them: yeah, were gonna take that valve cover off later and get a good look at the cam lobes. but we're not gonna do that till later.
me thanks, later.

***,,,,,, i want my bike, this is bull*****, triumph sucks, and i'll never buy one agian, i've had the bike for two months and it's spend 3 weeks in the shop. it's my only transportation and i hate HATE the bus. how hard is it to go to bat for a customer, "give this guy a new bike"
i don't know what's wrong with it and neither do they, and it sounds like***** runs fine. grrrrrr, i bet a suzuki wouldn't have this bull
on top off all this,, i don't even get a loaner.
sorry for the long rant, but i needed to tell some people that understand.