Here a few pics i took last saturday, on a ride organised by the Triumph dealership. Everything from Ducs, Aperilla, and all inds of Triumph. The ride was slowed down by a new rider going down, 20 minutes into it. He had an 04 Triple, been riding for 3 weeks, and to make it worse, I had a chat with him before we left, told him to ride slow, learn the bike, and respect the triple. well....it jumped up and bit him in the arse. To make it worse, he wasn't wearing a jacket. Sad lesson to learn, the hard way.
Anyway, on my bike you will see the new body part I have fitted, it looks great, but when the suspension bottoms out, it scrapes on the road. It is alos very susceptible to stone chips. The whole thing took some modification. Aparently, the belly pan, was closed to colect oil, on race bikes. This I didn't know. This caused two problems, 1) when I got caught in the rain, I had a big puddle in it three days later, so I dremelled a hole in the bottomw, 2) because it was designed for a race Triple, there was no accounting for the kickstand. So I eneded up having to dremel a notch out for that. The down side to this.....I had already had the whole thing painted and clear coated....Bugger! It turned out pretty good though. Another change I made was to the air scoops in it. As some of you will know, you can buy the grills for the air scoops in the side panels on the triple, from a french website. I bought them myself. To tie it all in, I went to bed bath and beyond, bought a $10 trash can, cut out pieces to fit, and cemented it to the inside of the belly pan. Not bad i think, I also put the grills on my heel guards.
Anyway, a long day of riding, some great roads, and 373 miles. What more can you ask of a saturday? Hope you all like the mods I made. I will say, my bike definitely stands out more than ever now, and looks different to the other two triples who ride in our group. Honest opinions please guys.
This last one is what I like to see. Nothing but European bikes.
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