Triumph sucks big time. Will buy Honda next time.

[drainbamage]

So.
What kind of crappy materials Triumph is using these days?
There I was, happy as a cricket (hun?) returning from the Isle, thinking about the pint waiting for me at the Ace Cafe when PLUNK! A small piece of debris hit my right side with a sound of a thousand dishes hitting the floor. Stopped at the service station only to find there was a hole in me engine.



Am I supposed to accept the fact that a piece of metal the size of a common brick hitting my bike at mere 140 Km/h will do that kind of damage?

I thought cool-factor alone would shield me against these kind of freak accidents. And cars. And bugs. And pesky kids with footballs.

All I can say is that I feel greatly outraged. I will contact Triumph in order to force them to build their engines with something stronger. Like unobtainium!

I also hereby declare myself "master of the cam cover with small 6mm hole". Now bow. Respect.

:-D

[cheapbastard]

:wow: :wow:


now you must have been going fast!

:-D

that suks dude. :hammer:

[Stampy]

Some Feker with no respect for British Iron has been shooting 44 magnums at ya bamage!!! :-D :-D :-D

[rifleart]

Did you find the bit of whatever that hit you? What was it? How did it manage to hit you? I thought road debris was bad enuf here. :???: :???: :hammer: kit:

[Mizterpink]

WOW!
Good thing it hit your engine and not your leg! I can't imagine what it would have done to flesh and bone if it ripped a hole like that in pretty thick metal.

[Buster]

very, very strange place for impact of road debris... :???:

If i understand correltly from the pic the impacted surface is "the side"of the bike.. like road debris can put a hole in you're door when driving a car?? windsheeld,motorcover,radiator ok..but this... :???: :???:

[Cburt]

Looks like a inside out thing than an outside in.
Are you shure that you still have all your inards intact?

[ This message was edited by: Cburt on 2007-06-06 13:51 ]

[R100Pilot]

Yep. If you'd had one o' these, it woulda just damaged a bunch o' the body work.

[drainbamage]

Pretty nasty stuff on English Roads. Didn't have a change to see what hit me. It was big. I only remember seeing something miss my friends helmet by inches while boomeranging through the air and hit me with a LOUD sound. Don't want to imagine what would have happen if it hit my friend's head or my leg.

This pic's clearer.


Liquid metal to the rescue!


Still managed to visit Ace Cafe!!


[ This message was edited by: drainbamage on 2007-06-06 14:36 ]

[Limey]

It must of been the English economy that hit ya, thrown out of a car window by a passing goverment jaguar :hammer: