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#1 ·
I would be gratefull if anyone who has had any problems with their new Triumph Twins post delivery would be willing to share their experiences here?

My new Thruxton (1 month old) has had to have major gearbox work, and now, 2 days after getting her back, has developed what appears to be a broken wire in the loom.

I am mildly miffed, to say the least.

It will all be covered by the warranty, but its the bloomin' inconvenience of the whole process of getting the bike and keys back to the dealer, and getting it back home again!

:Angry
 
#3 ·
not one iota of a problem since I bought mine off the show room floor late 2007 and 70k later one happy little camper :)

being a gear head and due to the wealth of info on this forum do all servicing and work myself as I wonder if some problems are dealer induced
 
#4 ·
My bike started to idle weird after about 800 miles and found out my throttle bodies got out of whack. The dealer tried to fix it and said it was "within spec" but not in sync. That pissed me off. 80 dollar ebay part and some intimate time with my new bike and it's ok now. I'll never deal with that dealer again. Still love Triumph though.
 
#7 ·
took mine to the dealer for the 500 mile service... shortly after that it would stall at red lights... tweaked the revs a bit and made an appointment with the dealer to check it out... the throttle bodies weren't in sync... took em about an hour to fix it.. no charge.. all under warranty... it rides great now...

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#8 ·
Personally I think these things have a lot more to do with dealers than the bike itself. The broken wire may well be down to something the dealer did the last time they had the bike. That's if the fault really IS a broken wire. I know this sort of thing happens a lot.

Generally speaking, these bikes are bullet proof and give very little trouble if at all. Of course, like anything else they are not perfect and you will always get the odd bike with a fault from new, but I've heard some real horror stories concerning the things dealers do when they have the bike in for fixing. One fault leads to another, then another and so on and the bike always gets the blame.

I guess I'm lucky, my dealer (Staffordshire Triumph) are really good. Twice I've fallen foul of the low battery voltage 'no start' condition when I've taken it for service, and I've rang them and they have sent out the van to pick both me and the bike up.
 
#18 ·
I purchased my Bonneville in June of last year. Rain was constant so I was barely able to ride it and the few times I did most of it got really wet. In the early hours of Saturday before the clouds showed up, my wife wanted a ride so I had to use the family bike and not the Bonneville.

Summers here are horrible.
 
#20 ·
In the early hours of Saturday before the clouds showed up, my wife wanted a ride so I had to use the family bike and not the Bonneville.
Oh man, you gotta lay down the law! :)

I set my wife straight early on while we were dating..
she wanted to go riding, I said "riding two-up on this bike (05 sv650n) wouldn't be much fun.. you're gonna have to get your own", and she said "ok, teach me". So I bought a Griso 1100 and let her learn on my SV. Now we're selling the SV and this winter, I'll be building her a custom Bonneville (from a salvaged bonnie).

We do ride together on the Griso sometimes though. It's comfortable enough.. without sacrificing the cool.
 
#19 ·
I had a few problems with my 2013 Bonnie, but nothing too terrible. I had the Triumph high-flow silencers fitted and the dealer loaded the wrong engine tune. Two days later it was stalling, backfiring and refusing to start on the first eight attempts. All fixed on the first service and now all is well.
 
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